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Funding delays teacher recruitment in Zimbabwe
The government's ambitious plan to recruit 8,000 new teachers to address Zimbabwe's critical teacher-to-student ratio has hit a major snag, with delays in the disbursement of funds from the Treasury s...Published: 02 Aug 2025 at 19:14hrs | 256 | by Staff reporter
Jobless Zimbabwe teachers told to 'start your own schools'
GOVERNMENT has told jobless teachers to open their own schools as it cannot employ all of them into the country's education system.This was said by Higher and Tertiary Education deputy ministe...Published: 07 Aug 2023 at 06:41hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Teachers 4ED take over teachers recruitment
The recently launched Zanu-PF aligned teacher union called Teachers for Economic Development or Teachers4ED seems to have taken over recruitment and deployment of teachers as Zanu-PF is soliciting for...Published: 14 Nov 2022 at 05:18hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt claims to have addressed teachers' grievances
GOVERNMENT yesterday said it had addressed teachers' salary grievances, adding that civil servants should be grateful to President Emmerson Mnangagwa for improving their welfare in terms of salary adj...Published: 18 Feb 2022 at 05:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Striking teachers suspended without pay
All teachers who did not report for duty when schools opened have been suspended with immediate effect for three months without pay, the Government said yesterday.Reports indicated last night ...Published: 11 Feb 2022 at 05:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mass exodus of science teachers hits Bulawayo schools
BULAWAYO schools have been hit by a mass exodus of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) teachers with 145 having left since the beginning of the year.The skills flight by ST...Published: 12 Nov 2021 at 05:34hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
3 000 more teachers to be recruited
Another 3 000 new teaching posts have been created for State schools and recruitment will be completed as soon as all classes are open on March 22, taking the number of new teachers hired to cope with...Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 06:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
20 000 new teachers to start work
Another 15 000 to 20 000 qualified but unemployed teachers are being recruited by the Primary and Secondary Education Ministry in line with a directive from President Mnangagwa, with 5 300 already in ...Published: 04 Dec 2020 at 06:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Govt publishes school calendar
Government has published a school calendar, which will see the last term of this year ending seven days before the Christmas Holiday. According to the government, the last term of 2020 ends on...Published: 01 Oct 2020 at 07:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mathema to issue statement on striking teachers
PRIMARY and Secondary Education minister Cain Mathema is today expected to issue a ministerial statement in the National Assembly on the problems in the education sector where teachers have refused to...Published: 01 Oct 2020 at 07:23hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
U.S. presses Zimbabwe on labour rights
The United States ambassador to Zimbabwe has called on the government to respect labour rights after threats to replace teachers striking over poor pay.Brian Nichols met labour and social welf...Published: 01 Oct 2020 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Row erupts over 'Shona teachers' in Matabeleland on new list of recruits
A teachers' union on Friday expressed concerns that the government had recruited teachers who may not be conversant in the local languages to take infant classes in Matabeleland.The government...Published: 09 Mar 2019 at 07:01hrs | | by ZimLive
Teachers push for strike
ALL but one teachers' union have declared that their members would today join a national strike called for by Zimbabwe Teachers' Association (Zimta) and the Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (PT...Published: 05 Feb 2019 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe ready to fire striking teachers as it recruits 3 000 more
Government yesterday said it had started recruiting an additional 3 000 teachers for both primary and secondary schools so as to improve the teacher-to-pupil ratio as it moves to enhance the quality o...Published: 05 Feb 2019 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
ECD teacher shortages hit Lupane
Matabeleland North province's Lupane district is facing a crippling shortage of early childhood education (ECD) teachers, officials have said.This was revealed last Thursday at the launch of t...Published: 24 Dec 2018 at 19:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe must export unemployed teachers
The Unemployed Teachers Association (UTA) has pleaded with Primary and Secondary Education minister Paul Mavima to make arrangements to export unemployed teachers to countries where their services are...Published: 23 Oct 2018 at 06:34hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland North registers unemployed teachers
THE Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education in Matebeleland North is setting up a database of unemployed qualified teachers aspiring to work in the province. The Ministry will today and on...Published: 23 Oct 2018 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Muchinguri urges women to celebrate her appointment
NEWLY-appointed Defence and War Veterans Affairs minister Oppah Muchinguri has pleaded with women to celebrate her historic appointment while promising to be equal to the task of managing a key minist...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 07:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga to give unemployed teachers, nurses jobs?
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga yesterday said Government has plans to ensure that unemployed teachers and nurses in the country end up getting jobs. Speaking during a well attended Zanu-P...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Unemployed teachers accuse Mnangagwa of neglecting them
Unemployed teaching graduates have accused Zimbabwean President Emmesron Mnangagwa of neglecting them.The teachers made the remarks during a demonstration held on Friday.Progressive Te...Published: 18 Jun 2018 at 15:12hrs | 1 | by Byo24News Reporter
Fourth Red Friday with Unemployed Teachers
Today Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) marched in solidarity with the Unemployed teachers in Harare and delivered a petition to the Minister of State for Presidential Affairs, Hon ...Published: 15 Jun 2018 at 20:25hrs | | by ARTUZ
Unemployed teachers demand jobs
MEMBERS of the Unemployed Teachers' Association (UTA) have organised a protest march in Harare today to draw government's attention to their plight.Association chairperson, Takemore Mhlanga sa...Published: 15 Jun 2018 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teachers to protest on tomorrow
Teachers will be taking to the streets on Friday to protest against government's offer of increasing their salaries by 15 percent, saying the effort fell far too short of their expectations.Go...Published: 17 May 2018 at 08:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
16 000 Zimbabwean teachers jobless
ABOUT 16 000 trained teachers are jobless, with universities and colleges unloading 2 000 more every year, Primary and Secondary Education minister Lazarus Dokora has said.Government, at the b...Published: 13 Jun 2017 at 06:46hrs | 1 | by News Agencies
Jobless Zimbabwean teachers flock to Namibia
UNEMPLOYED Zimbabwean teachers are reportedly flocking to Namibia after the neighbouring country's government advertised 2 000 teaching posts which it said are open to Sadc region nationals. There are...Published: 20 Aug 2016 at 08:42hrs | | by Thandeka Moyo
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