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Zimbabwean lecturers told that their services are no longer required in SA
Several Zimbabwean and Lesotho lecturers on exemption permits that allow them to live and work in SA, have been told their services are no longer required by the Department of Higher Education (DHE)....Published: 17 Mar 2023 at 08:08hrs | 3383 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo to crackdown on Vendors4ED
BULAWAYO councillors have resolved to launch a crackdown on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's shadowy group operating illegally in the second-largest city under the moniker Vendors for ED.The gro...Published: 14 Mar 2023 at 19:56hrs | 2446 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Vendors4ED fuel lawlessness
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's shadowy group operating under the banner Vendors For ED is on a collision course with Bulawayo City Council after it violated city by-laws by establishing unsanctioned v...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 13:57hrs | 1316 | by Staff reporter
Minister Murwira summoned over poor salaries
Higher and Tertiary Education, Innovation, Science and Technology Development minister Amon Murwira has been summoned to appear before Parliament over the poor working conditions of university workers...Published: 26 Feb 2023 at 09:53hrs | 1570 | by Staff reporter
Dismissed Zimbabwean lecturers refuse request to withdraw their court case
Four immigrant lecturers dismissed from Port Elizabeth TVET College have refused the college's request that they withdraw their court case.On Wednesday the Labour Court in Gqeberha postponed t...Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 07:12hrs | 1880 | by Staff reporter
Lecturer resigns after sleazy video leak
The Midlands State University (MSU) is topping the Twitter trend after sleazy videos and pictures involving one of its lecturers and students leaked on social media last Friday.The lecturer Re...Published: 17 Feb 2023 at 20:53hrs | 3840 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF demands slot in schools' leadership
Zanu-PF has been roping in civil servants including teachers to campaign for Mnangagwa's re-election.Zanu-PF is reportedly meddling in the running of schools in the Midlands province, after it...Published: 07 Feb 2023 at 05:03hrs | 508 | by Staff reporter
SA Labour Court sets aside dismissal of three Zimbabwe immigrant lecturers
The Labour Court in Gqeberha has granted four lecturers, who are foreign nationals, an interdict to set aside their dismissals by the Port Elizabeth TVET College's Iqhayiya Campus.In the written r...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 18:35hrs | 853 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe university lecturers to attend Zanu-PF's ideology classes
UNIVERSITY lecturers are set to undergo Zanu-PF's commandeered ideology classes under the tag Academics for Economic Development this week.Invitations have been sent to universities across the...Published: 23 Jan 2023 at 05:48hrs | 1849 | by Staff reporter
Hexco results out
Higher Education Examinations Council (HEXCO) for November/December 2022 classes results have been released with a marginal increase of a 61 percent pass rate compared to 60.9 percent the previous yea...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 08:22hrs | 197 | by Staff reporter
MPs for sale, damnable loans
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, as I see it, the Legislature ought to have felt unease about the impropriety of accepting housing loans from Treasury at a time hospitals are...Published: 14 Dec 2022 at 06:43hrs | 325 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Dearth of college lecturers spells disaster
IT is indisputable that our otherwise very beautiful country Zimbabwe is going through some really trying times, adversities which citizens have endured for many years now.And each passing yea...Published: 07 Dec 2022 at 05:07hrs | 691 | by Staff reporter
UZ exam paper leaks under probe
THE Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) has taken a keen interest in reports that rich and politically exposed persons are bribing their way to obtain law qualifications at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ)....Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 08:13hrs | 363 | by Staff reporter
Staff shortage hits Zimbabwe universities
THE country's institutions of higher learning have been hit by acute staff shortages caused by mass exodus of academics due to poor remuneration and working conditions, NewsDay has been informed....Published: 30 Nov 2022 at 05:03hrs | 440 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Polytechnic bans short skirts, cleavage in new dress code
The Bulawayo Polytechnic has published a controversial new dress code which appears to target female students wearing skimpy or revealing clothing.Students will be barred from lecture rooms fo...Published: 29 Nov 2022 at 20:11hrs | 2942 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa donates tractors to farmers
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has donated tractors to two farmers from Filabusi who granted 106 hectares of land to Gwanda State University (GSU) to enable the institution of higher learning to conduct agricult...Published: 22 Nov 2022 at 04:52hrs | 478 | by Staff reporter
Russian scholarships, language lessons offered
Zimbabweans now have the opportunity to study in Russia and learn Russian as a foreign language under a scholarship programme to be implemented by various partners.The Presidential Office for ...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 04:54hrs | 242 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa donates farming equipment, bus to Solusi
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday donated an assortment of equipment that will help transform the Seventh Day Adventist-run Solusi University in Figtree, with the consignment including tractors with ploug...Published: 14 Nov 2022 at 05:10hrs | 409 | by Staff reporter
Staff exodus hits State universities
A MASSIVE brain drain has hit the country's State universities with lecturers leaving the country in droves in protest over poor salaries, NewsDay Weekender has learnt.Great Zimbabwe Uni...Published: 07 Nov 2022 at 05:30hrs | 741 | by Staff reporter
Mkoba Teachers' College starts producing liquid fertilisers
Mkoba Teachers' College (MTC) in Gweru, Midlands Province has started producing vegetable and fruit pickles, herbs and liquid fertilisers in line with Education 5.0 philosophy.The liquid ferti...Published: 13 Sep 2022 at 05:52hrs | 146 | by Staff reporter
Migration of qualified staff, unprocedural appointments rocks LSU
Lupane State University is facing serious migration of qualified personnel to sister universities amid revelations the university is now opting for unprocedural recruitment of lecturing staff....Published: 05 Sep 2022 at 17:01hrs | 3663 | by Stephen Jakes
Rwanda starts recruiting Zimbabwean educational personnel
The Rwandan government has started recruiting Zimbabwe's educational personnel, following a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed between the two countries in December last year.The MoU was...Published: 27 May 2022 at 06:50hrs | 484 | by Staff reporter
Veteran Masvingo Teachers' College lecturer calls it a day
‘When I have done the work you gave me Lord, give me that crown' is undoubtedly a befitting statement for Tamuka Nyakunhuwa Shumba who recently retired after over three decades at Masvingo Teachers'...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 06:20hrs | 904 | by Staff reporter
Women decry sextortion
WOMEN'S organisations have lamented the rise in sextortion cases in the country's tertiary institutions and workplaces, pushing back the fight to achieve gender equality.According to the Colli...Published: 09 Mar 2022 at 06:56hrs | 380 | by Staff reporter
'Elections will force Zimbabwe to re-dollarise'
WHILE calls for dollarisation seem to be falling on deaf ears, an economics expert has predicted that government will give in to pressure and officially re-introduce the US dollar.Great Zimbab...Published: 24 Feb 2022 at 05:45hrs | 2972 | by Staff reporter
Where wildlife produces its own managers
When African wildlife 'sends' you to South Africa's Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) to study nature conservation, using international hunting revenue so that you can come back and manage it, yo...Published: 16 Feb 2022 at 13:16hrs | 1045 | by Emmanuel Koro
Lupane University lecturers go on strike
LECTURERS at Lupane State University (LSU) have gone on strike citing none payment of their salaries as the major reason.The lecturers advised the university authorities in a letter dated Febr...Published: 09 Feb 2022 at 18:51hrs | 906 | by Staff reporter
No bonding, no clearance for nurses
Nurses who intend leaving the country to pursue their careers elsewhere should satisfy all statutory requirements, including bonding, the Nurses and Midwives' Council of Zimbabwe has said.The ...Published: 09 Feb 2022 at 05:19hrs | 427 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland North to get polytechnic, teachers' college
THE Hwange Local Board has allocated 17 hectares of land to the Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development for the construction of a Polytechnic and Teachers College...Published: 06 Feb 2022 at 06:52hrs | 180 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to launch another expo
Chancellor of all State universities, President Mnangagwa is expected to officially launch the Varsity Film Expo taking place at the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) on Monday....Published: 03 Dec 2021 at 05:29hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Corruption allegations rock ZOU
THE Zimbabwe Open University (Zou)'s Department of Peace, Leadership and Conflict Resolution is rocked by serious allegations of corruption involving foreign students paying tuition fees in foreign cu...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 07:00hrs | 187 | by Staff reporter
Schools hit by COVID-19 outbreak
A NUMBER of private boarding schools have closed down and sent students home after an alarming increase in confirmed COVID-19 cases at the learning institutions.According to situational report...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 05:35hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
'Students paraded as MDC Alliance defectors'
Zanu-PF on Saturday allegedly bussed students from various tertiary institutions to Marymount Teachers College in Mutare for a party event and later paraded them as MDC Alliance defectors.The ...Published: 01 Dec 2021 at 05:40hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter
Experts warn govt over the omicron variant
LOCAL health experts yesterday warned government against giving false hope on its ability to deal with the Omicron variant of COVID-19, which has since been described as "a variant of concern" by the ...Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 05:35hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
No to drugs, indiscipline, says Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday implored children to be disciplined, hardworking, respectful and also abstain from drugs and wayward behaviour if they are to be competitive in a globalised world....Published: 21 Nov 2021 at 08:07hrs | 22 | by Staff Reporter
Lupane varsity probed over sex scandal
THE Zimbabwe Gender Commission (ZGC) has engaged the Higher and Tertiary Education ministry over allegations that female staffers at Lupane State University are being sexually harassed by some top exe...Published: 14 Nov 2021 at 05:41hrs | 75 | by Staff reporter
Nust students worry over lost results
STUDENTS at the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) have expressed concern over the removal of results from their student portals following a malware assault on the Nust system (Navis...Published: 16 Oct 2021 at 06:27hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must remove sanctions he has imposed on Zimbabwe first
A GROUP of academics last week announced that they had joined the anti-sanctions fight, and hoped to do something that the government and its shrill supporters have failed in nearly two decades: have ...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 05:54hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Academics call for the removal of sanctions
A GROUP of academics in Zimbabwe under the banner of Lecturers Anti-Sanctions Network, (LASN) have embarked on research to prove that sanctions imposed by the West were detrimental to ordinary people....Published: 07 Oct 2021 at 07:04hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Fired MSU lecturer found dead
A MIDLANDS State University philosophy lecturer, Ishmael Jeko, was found dead in his house last Friday.Jeko was vice-president of Midlands State University Lecturers Association (MSULA)....Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 07:16hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga in fierce battle to control Masvingo provinces
"Ladies and gentlemen the situation in our country has reached another level…," said the late army General Sibusiso Moyo while addressing the nation during the November 2017 sanitized coup whi...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 18:14hrs | 108 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean university bans mini-skirts, cleavage on campus
The Zimbabwe Ezekiel Guti University (ZEGU) has banned the wearing of mini-skirts, shorts and tight-fitting clothing by female students on campus.In a notice to students dated September 3, the...Published: 07 Sep 2021 at 18:39hrs | 41 | by Staff reporter
MSU staff morale hits rock bottom
STAFF at the Midlands State University (MSU) is reported to have hit rock bottom with lecturers accusing the management of meddling in workers' union affairs in a bid to destabilise it.A sourc...Published: 03 Sep 2021 at 06:51hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Poly a Cyber Security Risk
As we were scanning through cyberspace we tested the vulnerability of the Bulawayo Polytechnic campus portal. This serves to notify you that your educational portal is completely insecure (see attache...Published: 18 Aug 2021 at 12:07hrs | 15 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
High internet tariffs push online learning out of reach of many
THE rising cost of internet services at a time when learners countrywide are required to engage in online learning as a Covid-19 mitigation measure is a cause for concern. Schools have been closed sin...Published: 12 Aug 2021 at 06:39hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Students cry foul
STUDENTS at Esigodini Agriculture College have expressed concern over continuing face to face learning at the institution at a time when Covid-19 cases are rising.The students said the situati...Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 08:02hrs | 30 | by Staff reporter
Zec in 'Catch Them Young' campaign
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) says it will roll out voter education in tertiary institutions under its ambitious project dubbed "Catch Them Young", aimed at encouraging students to register ...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 09:20hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Minister sucked into 'Malunga' farm grab
Matebeleland North Minister of State for Provincial Affairs and Devolution Richard Moyo has been sucked into OSISA director Siphosami Malunga's Nyamandlovu farm grab saga.About three weeks ago...Published: 08 Jul 2021 at 18:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Another Kwekwe Poly Lecturer succumbs to covid-19
A LECTURER at Kwekwe Polytechnic's automotive department has succumbed to covid-19 complications, bringing the number of lecturers who have died from the virus at the institution within a month to two...Published: 02 Jul 2021 at 13:35hrs | 7 | by Staff Reporter
ZRP cracks whip on lockdown violators, intercity buses impounded
Authorities yesterday intensified the enforcement of Covid-19 control measures with police impounding buses that were operating illegally, while the Judicial Service Commission announced the closure o...Published: 24 Jun 2021 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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