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Teacher truancy hits rural schools
A wave of teacher absenteeism has gripped rural schools across Manicaland Province, with educators reportedly abandoning their posts for urban business ventures, leaving learners stranded and lessons ...Published: 11 Jul 2025 at 08:30hrs | 475 | by Staff reporter
All set for June 2025 Zimsec exams
The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education has assured the nation that all preparations for the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) June 2025 examinations are in place, with the session...Published: 24 May 2025 at 11:02hrs | 114 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt announces subsidized 2025 ZIMSEC exam fees
The Government of Zimbabwe has revealed the 2025 Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (ZIMSEC) examination fees for both Ordinary Level (O-Level) and Advanced Level (A-Level) candidates, with signific...Published: 13 Feb 2025 at 14:02hrs | 1553 | by Staff reporter
Schools shortage hits Cowdray Park
Cowdray Park, one of Bulawayo's largest and fastest-growing suburbs, is grappling with a severe shortage of schools, clinics, and other essential amenities, as rapid population growth continues to out...Published: 10 Feb 2025 at 06:38hrs | 302 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's wife attends Amhlophe High's 40th anniversary
Amhlophe High School marked a momentous occasion today as it held its annual speech and prize-giving ceremony, coinciding with the celebration of its 40th anniversary. The event, graced by Colonel Min...Published: 27 Sep 2024 at 15:23hrs | 6763 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe considers scrapping English as a requirement for nurse training intake
The Ministry of Health and Child Care is contemplating removing the English Language requirement for nurse training intake.During the post-cabinet briefing on Tuesday, Minister of Health and C...Published: 10 Apr 2024 at 17:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ministry clarifies nurse training requirements
PROSPECTIVE nurses require five Ordinary Level subjects, including English and Science, and these requirements have not changed since Statutory Instrument of 245 of 2000.There was speculation ...Published: 09 Apr 2024 at 06:17hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ministry of health scraps O' Level Maths as requirement for nurse training
The ministry of health has quietly scrapped the requirement to have passed O' Level Mathematics for one to qualify for nurse training.The requirements were tweaked more a decade ago, compellin...Published: 08 Apr 2024 at 06:25hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
General nurse training: May 2024 intake has now begun
General Nurse Training May 2024 Intake has now begun. The ministry of Health and Child Care are announced the intake in the Sunday papers on 7 April 2024.The training intake advert reads:...Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 19:47hrs | 664 | by Staff reporter
Zimsec announces 2024 exam fees
The Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (ZIMSEC) has unveiled the examination fees for the 2024 Ordinary and Advanced Level exams. The government will subsidize 55 percent of the total cost for stude...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 09:36hrs | 74 | by Staff reporter
JZ High School continues with 100% A-level pass rate
SITUATED in Gwanda District in the sprawling Matebeleland South Province, Jason Ziyaphapha (JZ) Moyo High School is not only named after a revolutionary luminary whose legacy cannot be bloated, but th...Published: 04 Feb 2024 at 17:35hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Schools inflate prices of uniforms
THE Government has called on parents to ignore unauthorised school fees for next term which begins in January, warning that school heads found flouting regulations will face disciplinary action....Published: 24 Dec 2023 at 16:08hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
CALA Here to stay. Parents don't understand what it means
THE Continuous Assessment Learning Activities (CALA) are a key feature in the country's primary and secondary school curriculum and will not be scrapped, but components per learning area might be redu...Published: 28 May 2023 at 13:13hrs | 2 | by Erick Matotoba
Chevecheve High School is facing serious water challenges
Chevecheve High School is facing a serious water challenges such that a concerned whatsapp group had embarked on a fundraising campaign to install a solar powered borehole at the school.Chevec...Published: 15 Apr 2021 at 08:03hrs | 4 | by Mugwaza
Botswana to tap into Zimbabwe curriculum
THE Botswana government is working on tapping into the Zimbabwean curriculum to improve it through implementing vocational and practical subjects. Speaking during a tour of local seconda...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 06:56hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimsec sets exam timetables
THE Zimbabwe Schools Examinations Council (ZIMSEC) has released timetables for the 2020 November candidates with Ordinary and Advanced level exams set to commence on December 1, while Grade Seven test...Published: 15 Nov 2020 at 06:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Schools demand US dollar fees
SCHOOL headmasters are proposing charging fees in United Sates dollars or the equivalent at the interbank exchange rate, saying the local currency's volatility duringthe COVID-19-induced school cl...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Nurse recruitment goes digital
Government has introduced an electronic recruiting policy for aspiring nurses, starting with this year's September intake to ensure accountability and clamp down on corruption. Director of Nur...Published: 14 May 2019 at 07:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Government dismisses teachers' job list
THE Government has dismissed as fake a document purportedly showing a shortlist of recruited primary school teachers submitted to the Public Service Commission (PSC). According to the document...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 08:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Entrepreneurship, the new spirit of Zimbabwe
The turn of the 21st century was not good for Zimbabwe as the country was slapped with illegal sanctions by the west which led to the closure of many industries. Despite going for nearly two decades w...Published: 21 Dec 2018 at 13:53hrs | 2 | by Elijah Chihota
Illegal school fees increment
MANY schools have issued communication indicating an intention to raise school fees in reaction to the spikes and dips in black market rates for the United States dollar.The majority of mostly...Published: 27 Oct 2018 at 08:41hrs | | by Mirriam T Majome
Govt tightens nursing school requirements
GOVERNMENT has tightened enrolment requirements for individuals intending to train as nurses and only aspiring candidates people below the age of 30 with five Ordinary Levels from one sitting are elig...Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimsec urged to revise grading system
THE Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) has been urged to review its grading system for practical subjects to enable academically challenged but practically gifted pupils to pass.Res...Published: 03 Apr 2018 at 07:02hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Teachers in limbo amid fears Mugabe govt abused funds
Hundreds of university students that enrolled under a special donor-assisted programme to upgrade teachers' skills have gone for six semesters without knowing their examination results due to governme...Published: 14 Jan 2018 at 09:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe to elevate Grace to VP position
President Mugabe has reaffirmed his commitment to women's empowerment, amid calls for one of Zanu-PF's Vice-Presidents to be a female.The President made the remarks at yesterday's 9th Presiden...Published: 05 Nov 2017 at 08:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wanezi High strives for excellence
WELL known for its prowess in Science and technology, Wanezi High School in Insiza District, Matabeleland South has distinguished itself as the school of preference for pupils hoping to pursue science...Published: 14 Oct 2017 at 16:50hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean establish a 2-hectare free-range chicken farm in SA
On the outskirts of Simon's Town, Einstein Sibanda has established a two hectare free-range poultry project.Sibanda, who is originally from Zimbabwe, started farming in December 2016 on the lo...Published: 29 Jun 2017 at 08:05hrs | 7 | by Tariro Washinyira
Military, Zanu-PF bigwigs invade college farm
THE military and several Zanu-PF bigwigs have invaded one of the best agricultural training institutes in Southern Africa, Blackfordby College of Agriculture, amid concerns that equipment worth thousa...Published: 09 Jun 2017 at 13:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Vocational Training way to go for unemployed youth
In the year 2000, I got enrolled at a certain local primary school teachers' college as a trainee teacher. There were compulsory subjects for everyone and we were asked to choose one main subject of o...Published: 15 Feb 2017 at 07:16hrs | 2 | by Tendai Guta
Uptake of ICTs towards self employment and economic development
Government is making immense effort to achieve one component of the Millennium Development Goals by bringing access to ICTs for all, as ICT is being used as a vehicle for delivering services, catalyzi...Published: 02 Feb 2017 at 10:20hrs | 1 | by Tatenda Gono
Teacher absenteeism alarming
ABOUT two teachers in every school are absent from work each day for various reasons which is affecting the performance of pupils, an audit report has revealed. Deputy Minister of Home Affairs and...Published: 14 Aug 2016 at 13:15hrs | | by Sukulwenkosi Dube-Matutu
' I'm on my way out,' says Mugabe
President Robert Mugabe yesterday told thousands of children attending celebrations to mark the Day of the African Child in Harare that he is on his way out and wants his successors to do a better job...Published: 19 Jun 2016 at 14:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt clears air on curriculum changes
The Primary and Secondary Education Ministry had over the course of last year proposed a broad overhaul of the curriculum, raising questions from educationists and parents over their practicability....Published: 10 Jan 2016 at 06:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dokora changes Grade 7 curriculum, more subjects for Grade 7 exams
GRADE 7 final examination candidates will soon write more than four subjects under the new education curriculum, which, among other innovations, demands "thorough" aptitude testing. Multiple c...Published: 06 Dec 2015 at 08:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Electricity shortages an affront to quality education
Modern education requires the use of ICTs which are powered by electricity. The shortages of electricity blighting our country has made computers and other ICT gadgets useless and inoperable tools. Re...Published: 05 Nov 2015 at 13:54hrs | 1 | by Obert Masaraure RTUZ President
Senator Shiri laments lack of good facilities at Early Childhood centres
Senator Annah Shiri has lamented that most of the early Childhood learning centres in the country lacks good learning facilities which may affected the learning process of the minors.Speaking ...Published: 04 Nov 2015 at 06:51hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
O-Level exams in full swing
The Zimbabwe School Examinations Council Ordinary Level examinations have commenced with students saying they are confident of excelling.The Ordinary Level students were this Monday taking on ...Published: 22 Oct 2015 at 15:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cyrene farm takeover 'error'
THE Anglican Church-run Cyrene Mission's administrators say they believe that the gazetting of the institution's farm for land redistribution was an "administrative error" by the government.Of...Published: 12 Mar 2015 at 09:06hrs | 1 | by Auxilia Katongomara
Funding our communities
Communities have learnt it the hard way as resources at our rural schools are not forthcoming. Many schools in Matabeleland Region are recording 0% pass-rate every year, the main reason being the ...Published: 07 Sep 2014 at 10:23hrs | | by Bongani Halimana
Re-introduction of practical subjects commendable
After independence in 1980, initiatives such as education with production and the 1999 Nziramasanga Commission of Inquiry into Education and Training recommended overhauling the education curricul...Published: 30 Jun 2014 at 08:51hrs | | by John Mukumbo
Govt to re-introduce practical subjects
THE Government is working on re-introducing practical subjects in schools to complement theoretical education already offered, President Mugabe has said.He was speaking at a mass held in Chish...Published: 23 Jun 2014 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimsec board to draft Zimbabwe-centric curriculum
Zimbabwe heritage studies should take centre stage in school curriculum to preserve the country’s culture, the minister of Primary and Secondary Education said yesterday.Lazarus Dokora wa...Published: 23 Apr 2014 at 09:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Adventist high school segregates children on gender lines - WhatsApp update
Please note that Bulawayo24 does not edit WhatsApp updates. We publish them as sent by our readers and we do not disclose the sender'...Published: 21 Mar 2014 at 07:07hrs | 1 | by Concerned Parent
Mugabe officially opens school named after his late sister
PRESIDENT Mugabe yesterday officially opened a secondary school in Zvimba South constituency named after his late sister and national heroine, Sabina Mugabe (pictured right), who died on July 29, 201...Published: 15 Mar 2014 at 05:59hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika
Govt withdraws exam fees subsidy
Candidates for Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) Ordinary and Advanced level will pay $13 and $26 respectively according to the approved examination fees structure for 2014....Published: 25 Feb 2014 at 19:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
'O' Level exams commence
Ordinary Level ("O" Level) exams commenced yesterday, with the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) saying it does not anticipate any leakages after putting in place water tight measures....Published: 23 Oct 2013 at 11:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Coltart defends Mugabe
David Coltart, the former Education minister, has praised President Robert Mugabe for prioritising practical subjects in the education curriculum, saying it was long overdue.This comes as Muga...Published: 09 Oct 2013 at 07:08hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe explains psychomotor portfolio's mandate
THE Ministry of State for Liaising on Psychomotor Activities in Education's mandate is to reincorporate practical subjects and equip pupils with life skills, President Mugabe has said.Former ...Published: 08 Oct 2013 at 03:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
O Level, A Level registration deadlines set
THE Zimbabwe School Examinations Council has set the deadline for the registration of June and November Ordinary Level and Advanced Level examinations. In a statement, Zimsec director Mr Esau ...Published: 05 Mar 2013 at 22:38hrs | | by Staff Report
Temporary teachers to be phased out
The Government intends to phase out the services of unqualified school teachers within the next five years following strong indications that their continued deployment is compromising education standa...Published: 24 Feb 2013 at 13:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
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