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The theory and practice of educational games as a means to promote better education
When educators and parents think about games, they see them as tools of distraction. They instantly imagine kids glued down to their smartphones, payi...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 11:03hrs | 732 | by William Steward
Best ways to keep studying without feeling bored and tired
Almost every student experiences a difficult time keeping up with study at one point of time in their life. This is especially possible when the subje...Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 14:17hrs | 3936 | by Stephanie Ward
Luveve High School maintains prestigious standards
RATED among the best schools and with a current Advanced (A) Level pass rate of 77 percent, Luveve High School in Bulawayo has managed to maintain its...Published: 03 Feb 2019 at 08:54hrs | 2848 | by Staff Reporter
Vocational training for Bulawayo women and girls
Inspire Women and Children is excited to announce that its long-anticipated inaugural vocational training school will commence on Monday the 7th of Ja...Published: 05 Jan 2019 at 11:56hrs | 2155 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe government introduces free education
Government schools will next year begin offering free basic education, while corporal punishment will be abolished in terms of a new law that is set t...Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 08:45hrs | 6729 | by Staff Reporter
NUST: Foreign students to pay fees in forex
NATIONAL University of Science and Technology (Nust) is now demanding fees in foreign currency from foreign students studying at the institution of hi...Published: 22 Dec 2018 at 08:38hrs | 1430 | by Staff Reporter
It's dangerous for schools to collect exam papers on day of writing
THE Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) has said the move by Zimbabwe Schools Examinations Council (Zimsec) to say in order to prevent exami...Published: 14 Oct 2018 at 09:23hrs | 961 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa caps 1 567 Chinhoyi University of Technology graduates
President Mnangagwa yesterday capped 1 567 graduates at Chinhoyi University of Technology (CUT). In his address at the institution's 14th graduation c...Published: 06 Oct 2018 at 08:12hrs | 1028 | by Staff Reporter
Govt to increase number of post O Level- A- Level students in Higher and Tertiary education
THE Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education Science and Technology Development Amon Murwira has said one of their key policies called inclusive educ...Published: 02 Oct 2018 at 07:05hrs | 2590 | by Stephen Jakes
Schools competition postponed due to cholera
The ministry of Primary and Secondary Education last week postponed the National Annual Science Sports and Arts festival due to cholera outbreak in so...Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 08:24hrs | 140 | by Stephen Jakes
Parent involvement helps students to do well
To date, quality education has become one of the important points in the development of a social individual. But no one is born with good academic ski...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 10:31hrs | 1393 | by Agencies
O'level June results out
The ZIMSEC June 2018 Ordinary level examination results are out.In a statement to the ZBC News, ZIMSEC Board Chairperson, Professor Eddie Mwen...Published: 27 Aug 2018 at 19:00hrs | 3494 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa launches students loan facility
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has officially launched three inter-linked programmes namely the Student Loan, Infrastructure Development and Information...Published: 25 Jul 2018 at 18:12hrs | 2229 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland North to have teachers' training college
THE Government will soon turn Ntabazinduna Vocational Training Centre in Matabeleland North into a teachers' training college.This emerged dur...Published: 17 Jul 2018 at 10:16hrs | 858 | by Staff Reporter
Samahuru Primary School children receive new shoes from local organisation
On Friday the 6th of July 2018, children at Samahuru Primary School in Tsholotsho Rural District received some new shoes from a local organisation...Published: 12 Jul 2018 at 19:54hrs | 921 | by Agencies
Entries for prestigious Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation are open
Engineers from Zimbabwe and other sub-Saharan countries are invited to enter the fifth edition of the prestigious Africa Prize for Engineering Innovat...Published: 12 Jul 2018 at 19:11hrs | 426 | by Agencies
Applications for Rhodes Scholarships open this year on truly global basis
The Rhodes Trust is delighted to announce that Rhodes Scholarship applications are now open for most of the Rhodes constituencies. Applications have o...Published: 18 Jun 2018 at 11:21hrs | 1491 | by Rhodes House, Oxford
Mzilikazi honoured for Copa success
MZILIKAZI High School in Bulawayo tasted the joy of winning the country's most prestigious schools football tournament, the Copa Coca-Cola, four times...Published: 14 Jun 2018 at 07:17hrs | 372 | by Staff reporterq
Schools still to get new curriculum textbooks
SOME provinces are yet to receive teaching and learning material made available by the Government in February, a development that severely disadvantag...Published: 05 Jun 2018 at 07:27hrs | 315 | by Staff reporter
Schools to close earlier because of elections
Schools in Zimbabwe will close earlier than expected in the second term because of elections slated for end of July.According to the schools c...Published: 01 Jun 2018 at 16:44hrs | 4582 | by Byo24News Reporter
Mutare student takes poetry to another level
Mutare Teachers College (MTC) student Irvine Muzondo has become a beacon of hope on the local poetry scene by storm after several poems he penned were...Published: 29 May 2018 at 18:05hrs | 1160 | by Stanley Chirimbani and Virginia Zifesho
John Tallach High wins quiz competition
The finals of the Old Mutual National High School Quiz Competition were held in the capital recently with winning schools walking away with various pr...Published: 29 May 2018 at 10:53hrs | 2508 | by Staff reporter
ZOU to partner ZIMCHE, AAU in four day workshop
The Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU) in collaboration with the Association of African Universities (AAU) and the Zimbabwe Council for Higher Education (...Published: 18 May 2018 at 13:25hrs | 673 | by Stephen Jakes
Entumbane High School Bursar wreaks havoc
Mthwakazi Republic Party on Monday the 14th of May 2018 went on a fact finding mission at Entumbane High school in response to the sad outcry of the E...Published: 15 May 2018 at 10:26hrs | 7637 | by Stephen Jakes
Schools ambush students on deadline for O & A level exam fees deadline
Ordinary and Advance Level students have cried foul that schools have ambushed them in giving them deadlines for the payment of examination fees as mo...Published: 10 May 2018 at 15:04hrs | 3177 | by Stephen Jakes
Teachers to strike over pay
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean teachers will go on strike to demand an increase in salaries and allowances when schools reopen next month for the new t...Published: 29 Apr 2018 at 20:47hrs | 2263 | by Reuters
Munyeza to present at the forthcoming ZOU public lecture
Renowned Zimbabwean businessman and public speaker, Doctor Shingi Albert Munyeza, will make a presentation at the Zimbabwe Open University public lect...Published: 27 Apr 2018 at 07:20hrs | 805 | by Stephen Jakes
Nust invents prototype platinum purifier
VICE President General Constantino Chiwenga (Retired) yesterday pledged Government support in funding a prototype for Platinum group of metals Process...Published: 26 Apr 2018 at 07:20hrs | 1117 | by Staff Reporter
Matabeleland schools receive $129K donation
THIRTY schools from Matabeleland North and Matabeleland South provinces have benefited from a donation of furniture and textbooks worth $129 000 from ...Published: 14 Apr 2018 at 11:15hrs | 926 | by Staff Reporter
Lupane university lecturers take relocation fight to High Court
NINE Lupane State University (LSU) lecturers in the Department of Development Studies have approached the High Court seeking an order barring universi...Published: 07 Apr 2018 at 09:28hrs | 1456 | by Staff Reporter
120 Plumtree High School A-Level pupils shelterless
A TOTAL of 120-A Level pupils at Plumtree High School could find themselves without shelter when schools open in three weeks following a fire that raz...Published: 07 Apr 2018 at 09:22hrs | 1147 | by Staff Reporter
Secondary prepares to write AutoCAD online exams
Secondary schools Computer-Aided Design (CAD) instructors will, this year, sit for an Autodesk International online examination to get certification i...Published: 28 Mar 2018 at 13:12hrs | 1043 | by Farai Shawn Matiashe and Lisa Tazviinga recently in Harare
ZOU enters into partnership with ZTA
The Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU) and Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) have entered into a major partnership by signing a Memorandum of Understanding...Published: 23 Mar 2018 at 09:49hrs | 806 | by Stephen Jakes
Majongwe threatens to sue govt
The Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) Secretary - General Mr Raymond Majongwe has threatened to take the government to court for failing t...Published: 23 Mar 2018 at 08:31hrs | 1056 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimpapers donates teaching equipment to LSU
ZIMPAPERS Company last week donated various pieces of teaching equipment which included desk tops, printers, Camera, Projector and Projector screen to...Published: 12 Mar 2018 at 13:23hrs | 440 | by Stephen Jakes
Whiz-kid 'Mkhulisi Moyo' gets scholarship
A BULAWAYO whiz-kid who got 20 points at A-Level has received a scholarship courtesy of cement giant PPC, for him to study Medicine at the University ...Published: 03 Mar 2018 at 07:52hrs | 2421 | by Staff Reporter
Great mistake and mischief in rush to implement new curriculum
Sometime in the late 1997, the government of Zimbabwe, through its two ministries of Education resolved to conduct an inquiry into the then Education ...Published: 26 Feb 2018 at 20:09hrs | 3096 | by Luke Mbune Chakaza correspondent
Seke Principal frustrates students
Seke Teachers College Principal Ephraim Mutubuki is continuing to frustrate and has barred students of the college ahead of their final examinations t...Published: 24 Feb 2018 at 09:03hrs | 1833 | by Edmore Kudakwashe
SA ready to assist Zimbabwe students
The South African Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Mr Mphakama Mbete has paid a courtesy call on the Minister of State for Government Scholarships in the offic...Published: 23 Feb 2018 at 21:12hrs | 2556 | by Staff Reporter
'O' Level results today
THE Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) November 2017 Ordinary Level results will be released today, an official confirmed yesterday....Published: 23 Feb 2018 at 06:01hrs | 1569 | by Staff reporter
Marist Brothers' bullies force victims to drink toilet water
FORM Two boys who were allegedly severely tortured by Form Four pupils at Marist Brothers' Secondary School in Dete were allegedly forced to drink wat...Published: 17 Feb 2018 at 09:03hrs | 6847 | by Staff reporter
Government solves foreign-based students' challenges
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday urged South Africa-bound students on the Presidential scholarship to go and acquire knowledge and skills that would assi...Published: 17 Feb 2018 at 08:03hrs | 746 | by Staff Reporter
Students at teachers' colleges to learn 3 local languages
STUDENTS at teachers' colleges are now required to learn at least three indigenous languages to ensure that they can be deployed anywhere in the count...Published: 17 Feb 2018 at 07:49hrs | 2210 | by Staff Reporter
Water, electricity problems dog LSU
Students at the Lupane State University have said the institution is still under development and as a result they have water, accommodation and electr...Published: 12 Feb 2018 at 07:34hrs | 763 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimsec assures candidates meals, overnight accommodation
THE Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) has assured all candidates who are going to re-write the Ordinary-Level English Paper 2 next Friday ...Published: 10 Feb 2018 at 07:10hrs | 2471 | by Staff Reporter
2018 Joshua Nkomo Scholarships
2018 Joshua Nkomo Scholarships...Published: 05 Feb 2018 at 13:29hrs | 3248 | by Staff Reporter
Teachers up in arms with ministry over errors in cultural books
VICTORIA Falls teachers are up in arms with the Primary and Secondary Education ministry over new religious and cultural books that they claim and car...Published: 05 Feb 2018 at 13:26hrs | 1481 | by Staff Reporter
Matabeleland South Grade 7 exams pass rate drops
THE pass rate in the Grade Seven examinations in Matabeleland South dropped from 52 percent to 49,39 percent last year.The province has 512 pr...Published: 31 Jan 2018 at 05:36hrs | 686 | by Staff reporter
Curriculum challenge for Bulawayo schools
SCHOOLs in Bulawayo are facing challenges in implementing the new curriculum due to inadequate resources and learning materials, Parliament heard yest...Published: 31 Jan 2018 at 05:31hrs | 932 | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: Hail storm destroy school in Lupane
Hailstorm reportedly destroyed class rooms at Gumede Primary School in Lupane and downed electricity poles and trees...Published: 30 Jan 2018 at 15:04hrs | 2027 | by Stephen Jakes
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