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Unfair Labor Practice: ZIMSEC's Unpaid Invigilation Policy
The Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (ZIMSEC) has been criticized for its controversial policy of forcing teachers to invigilate public exams without compensation, while exam markers receive payme...Published: 18 Oct 2024 at 21:10hrs | 1628 | by Nkomah Isaac
Female teachers in Zimbabwe demand unlimited maternity leave
TEACHERS affiliated to the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) have called on government to come up with labour policies that will ensure unlimited paid maternity leave for female tea...Published: 07 Nov 2022 at 05:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grade 7 pupil gives birth, writes exam from hospital bed
SHE is 13 years old but already a mother of a one-month-old baby girl.The girl, of Mkhosana in Victoria Falls, shocked all and sundry when she wrote part of her Zimsec Grade Seven general exam...Published: 28 Oct 2022 at 07:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean teachers undergo exams for Rwandan jobs
ZIMBABWEAN teachers who have applied to work in Rwanda following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the two countries will this week go through virtual examinations before they...Published: 16 Aug 2022 at 06:36hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimsec exam makers scoff at paltry allowances
TEACHERS yesterday described the $16 500 that the Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) has offered them for marking examinations, as paltry and an insult to the profession.In a statem...Published: 01 Feb 2022 at 05:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grade 7 exam markers clash with ZIMSEC
TEACHERS marking 2021 Grade Seven examinations have vowed to resist the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (ZIMSEC)'s decision to demand Covid-19 test certificates.ZIMSEC last week wrote a m...Published: 05 Jan 2022 at 05:55hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Miserable X-mas for impoverished workers
THE year 2021 was a sad one for workers because of a plethora of challenges, including the Covid-19 pandemic and now they will round it off with a bleak Christmas.Workers' unions say the gover...Published: 26 Dec 2021 at 15:30hrs | 8 | by Staffreporter
No clear timelines for Grade 7 results release, says Zimsec
THE Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) says it is unable to reveal the timelines and dates when Grade 7 examination results are expected to be released next year due to COVID-19 restriction...Published: 13 Dec 2021 at 07:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Suspend non-examination classes: Teachers
TEACHERS unions have called on government to send non-examination classes home as part of measures to decongest schools and tame the spread of COVID-19 which has wreaked havoc in most learning institu...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:33hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Govt reads riot act on exams invigilation
GOVERNMENT has ordered teachers to invigilate the ongoing Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) examinations or face penalties for failure to comply with the lawful order.Some teachers...Published: 03 Dec 2021 at 05:32hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Govt, teachers' rift widens
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday accused the United Kingdom (UK) embassy of funding trade unions, including teachers to rebel against the government in pursuance of a regime change agenda....Published: 01 Dec 2021 at 05:38hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Govt, teachers in deadlock over Zimsec contract
TEACHERS unions have declared a deadlock with government over payment for superintending over examinations after yesterday's meeting failed to resolve the impasse.The teachers want to be paid ...Published: 30 Nov 2021 at 05:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teachers, govt face off today
TEACHERS and Primary and Secondary Education minister Evelyn Ndlovu will today meet in Harare under the cloud of threats to boycott public school examinations that are scheduled to begin today....Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 05:38hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Government clashes with teachers
The government yesterday accused teachers of presiding over the collapse of the education system by refusing to invigilate Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (ZIMSEC) without payment.The exa...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 08:14hrs | | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Teachers, govt tiff escalates
GOVERNMENT yesterday accused teachers of presiding over the collapse of the education system by refusing to invigilate the Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) "O" and "A" Level examinations ...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:11hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Govt to hire 'anyone' to invigilate exams
SCHOOL examinations, which are set to begin Monday, are in serious doubt after teachers refused to invigilate them for free.This comes as both teachers and their employer, the government have ...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 05:56hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Teachers down tools
HUNDREDS of teachers yesterday downed tools to launch their 12-day strike over poor salaries and conditions of service, but government claimed that the protest was largely unheeded.Teachers un...Published: 16 Nov 2021 at 05:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
US$ bonus: Civil servants demand more
CIVIL servants yesterday attacked the United Stated dollar-denominated bonus as not enough, with teacher unions warning that it would not stop them from going on strike beginning Monday.Civil ...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 05:57hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo teachers to boycott classes
BULAWAYO teachers have written to the Zimbabwe Teachers Association (ZIMTA) notifying the union about their resolution to stop reporting for work until all their grievances are addressed.As on...Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 19:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimta members threaten industrial action
ZIMBABWE Teachers Association (Zimta) members in Bulawayo have urged its leadership to call for strike action over poor salaries.In a position paper dated October 14, 2021, addressed to the Zi...Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pay invigilators, says Artuz
AMALGAMATED Rural Teacher's Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) national secretarygeneral Robson Chere has called on the government to facilitate payment of teachers who took part in invigilating the Zimbabwe S...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 22:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Invigilators paid with plates of isitshwala
THE country's examination body, the Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) last week allegedly paid some "O" Level examination invigilators with plates of isitshwala instead of cash, which has ...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 06:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teachers dig in over PPE
DEFIANT teachers have dug in demanding provision of personal protective equipment for fear of contracting COVID-19 before returning to the classrooms.The teachers also vowed not to invigilate ...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
'It's dangerous to open schools now'
TEACHERS yesterday told Parliament that they would only resume their duties during the COVID-19 period after government has met their demands for better working conditions and guaranteed their safety....Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teachers threaten chalks down
TEACHERS have threatened to withdraw their labour when schools open for the third term next month to force government to pay them in United States dollars or the equivalent of US$550 at the interbank ...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 07:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
No pay, no invigilation: Zimsec told
TEACHERS have threatened to withdraw invigilation services in the Zimbabwe School Examination Council (Zimsec) October to November examinations if the public exam body reneges on paying them their due...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 15:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teachers appeal for wages above poverty line
TEACHERS unions, represented by the Zimbabwe Teachers' Union (Zimta) and the Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ), yesterday demanded that government pays salaries above the poverty datum li...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 13:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZIMSEC and MoPSE should come clean on AG report
Amalgamated Rural Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe, ARTUZ is angered by the findings of misappropriation of funds by government departments exposed by the Auditor General's 2018 report. We are particularly...Published: 29 Jun 2019 at 10:39hrs | 1 | by ARTUZ
Teachers demand payment for exams
TEACHERS have demanded payment for invigilating the Zimsec public examinations that start tomorrow.Grade Seven public examinations starts tomorrow while O and A-level public examinations start...Published: 30 Sep 2018 at 19:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Teachers demand pay for invigilating
TEACHERS have demanded payment from the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) for invigilating public examinations. Invigilation has always been deemed part of teachers' duties so they...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 07:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Outrage over Zimsec scandal
Education sector stakeholders have called for the immediate resignation of Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) management after the shameful leakage of a November 2017 English Language exami...Published: 11 Feb 2018 at 07:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
4 jailed over exam fraud
A Glen Forest Development Centre deputy headmaster conspired with two teachers to have one of them write this year's Ordinary Level Mathematics Paper 2 on behalf of a candidate. Glen Forest Develo...Published: 14 Nov 2016 at 05:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimsec forces O'level candidates to write exam at night
Two Ordinary Level candidates had to travel 100km from Bikita to Masvingo to write the June 2014 Biology Paper 2 examination at night because zimsec failed to deliver question papers to their centre...Published: 11 Jun 2014 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff Report
Satanism rife at High School
TEACHERS at Maboleni High School in Lower Gweru have reportedly suspended lessons following acts of suspected Satanism at the school.Sources said the teachers allegedly woke up and found class...Published: 23 Oct 2013 at 03:11hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
June exam paper leaked
THE Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) is investigating a case of misconduct in which the headmaster of Shangani Primary School in Matabeleland South allegedly leaked an English June exami...Published: 23 Jun 2012 at 13:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
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