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Teachers' qualifications to be verified
20 Sep 2014 at 12:17hrs | Views
US$3 million Teacher Capacity Development Programme launched by President Mugabe in July 2014, is set to address skills gaps identified after primary and secondary school teachers' qualifications have been verified.
Primary and Secondary Education Ministry Permanent Secretary Mrs Constance Chigwamba spoke about the plans at a ceremony to present the Secretary's Merit Award to Machekera Primary School in Uzumba on Thursday this week.
The school produced the best Grade 7 results in Mashonaland East Province last year.
The Teacher Capacity Building Programme seeks to improve teachers' skills to meet the demands of a modernising education system and a broadening curriculum that now includes ICT skills.
The programme is the brainchild of the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education and that of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development. Universities are at the centre of the programme and were each assigned an area that addresses specific needs of the country's teachers.
The programme has an initial US$3 million budget which will see teachers upgrade themselves to masters level while a few will be assisted to advance to PhD level on research programmes identified by the two ministries.
Mrs Chigwamba dismissed rumours that all university graduates who are teaching without qualifications would lose their jobs.
"Graduates who are teaching without teaching qualifications will not lose their jobs but we will sponsor them to acquire the teaching qualifications through distance learning," she said.
Primary and Secondary Education Ministry Permanent Secretary Mrs Constance Chigwamba spoke about the plans at a ceremony to present the Secretary's Merit Award to Machekera Primary School in Uzumba on Thursday this week.
The school produced the best Grade 7 results in Mashonaland East Province last year.
The Teacher Capacity Building Programme seeks to improve teachers' skills to meet the demands of a modernising education system and a broadening curriculum that now includes ICT skills.
The programme has an initial US$3 million budget which will see teachers upgrade themselves to masters level while a few will be assisted to advance to PhD level on research programmes identified by the two ministries.
Mrs Chigwamba dismissed rumours that all university graduates who are teaching without qualifications would lose their jobs.
"Graduates who are teaching without teaching qualifications will not lose their jobs but we will sponsor them to acquire the teaching qualifications through distance learning," she said.
Source - chronicle
