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Public schools ordered to display approved fees

The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education has issued a directive requiring all public schools to publicly display approved tuition fees, School Development Association (SDA) levies, and their local currency bank account numbers at ad…

Published: 08 Sep 2025 at 12:32hrs | 54 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe govt targets 125 new schools

Zimbabwe's push to expand access to quality education has gathered momentum, with significant progress reported in the construction, registration, and upgrading of schools across the country under the National Development Strategy 1 (NDS1)…

Published: 14 Aug 2025 at 10:33hrs | 114 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe to introduce AI at schools

The Ministry of Information Communication Technology, Postal and Courier Services, in collaboration with the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education, is working on a plan to introduce Artificial Intelligence (AI) learning in Zimbabwean…

Published: 07 Aug 2025 at 17:44hrs | | by Staff reporter

Mliswa pushes for schools' inclusive sporting curriculum

ZVIMBA - Vibrant sports enthusiast and former Norton Independent legislator, Temba Mliswa has called for an inclusive and enabling sporting curriculum environment amongst rural and urban schools in the education sector's quest to ensure no…

Published: 04 Aug 2025 at 23:07hrs | 438 | by Gideon Madzikatidze in Kutama

'Better Schools Program Zimbabwe, a huge scam'

A damning audit has revealed that the Better Schools Program Zimbabwe (BSPZ) Fund in Masvingo Province is operating illegally, lacking a registered constitution and failing to secure mandatory approvals from both the Ministry of Finance an…

Published: 26 Jul 2025 at 15:12hrs | 305 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe govt cracks down on unregistered schools

The Government has issued a stern warning to unregistered schools operating across Zimbabwe, declaring that their days are numbered. This follows mounting concern from legislators over the rapid growth of substandard and illegal learning i…

Published: 22 Jul 2025 at 17:55hrs | 373 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe schools warned against refusing ZiG

The government has issued a stern warning to schools that refuse to accept payment in the Zimbabwean Dollar (ZiG), stressing that such actions will result in disciplinary measures. This directive, which comes as the second school term kick…

Published: 13 May 2025 at 10:15hrs | 164 | by Staff reporter

4 new schools planned for Bulawayo

Bulawayo Province is set to benefit from the construction of four new schools in Cowdray Park, as part of a strategic Government initiative aimed at improving access to education in rapidly expanding urban suburbs and easing pressure on ex…

Published: 06 Apr 2025 at 11:27hrs | 303 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe teachers reject 'maternity wards' in schools

Zimbabwe's teachers' unions have expressed strong reservations about the newly-gazetted education regulations, highlighting potential challenges in their implementation, particularly with regard to supporting pregnant learners and maintain…

Published: 23 Feb 2025 at 13:03hrs | 1850 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe teachers not ready for January schools opening

As Zimbabwean schools prepare to reopen on January 14 for the first term, teachers' unions have voiced serious concerns over educators' readiness, citing financial incapacitation and resource shortages.The reopening coincides with the intr…

Published: 11 Jan 2025 at 18:44hrs | 12927 | by Staff reporter

Trump to end 'gender insanity' in schools

Former US President Donald Trump has promised that if reelected this November, he will defund schools that promote "inappropriate" content to children such as gender identity and critical race theory. He also pledged to strip federal fundi…

Published: 16 Jun 2024 at 12:44hrs | 79 | by Staff reporter

Schools defy Mnangagwa govt directive

Some rogue schools, including some in the public sector, are defying a clearly stipulated Government directives banning the exclusive charging of fees in foreign currency and forcing parents as well as guardians to pay for extra lessons.In…

Published: 08 Feb 2024 at 04:27hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe defers schools' opening date to 9 January

GOVERNMENT has pushed the opening of schools for the first term by 24 hours from the initial 8 January date to 9 January which gives parents more time to prepare for the opening of schools.Speaking during a Press Conference in Harare on We…

Published: 27 Dec 2023 at 15:16hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter

Alinial partnering Zimbabwean schools through comprehensive ICT solutions to schools management

Alinial Chartered Accountants Zimbabwe will be the first local Advisory Service Firm in the country to introduce a  locally customized School Management ERP System to schools both public and private across the country. The System offe…

Published: 23 Oct 2023 at 15:12hrs | | by Paul Ndou

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 minister Raymond Machingura during a graduation ceremo…

Published: 07 Aug 2023 at 06:41hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter

Only 3% of Zimbabwe's school have a web presence

Schools in Zimbabwe opened on the 8th May 2023  and our schools are looking for the best way to communicate between the school and the parents/guardians and stakeholders. In Zimbabwe the statistics from the ministry of primary and sec…

Published: 19 May 2023 at 14:00hrs | 68 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi

Schools 'sewing' uniform scandal

School authorities in Bulawayo and other areas are fleecing parents by forcing them to buy uniforms from schools at double the price charged by retailers although Government has said such conduct is illegal.The position of Government is th…

Published: 09 May 2023 at 06:04hrs | | by Staff reporter

'Phase out single-sex schools in Bulawayo'

EDUCATION authorities are considering transforming single-sex Government schools in Bulawayo into mixed ones as part of measures to address gang-related violence in learning institutions.Bulawayo is dealing with age long school-related tur…

Published: 01 Mar 2023 at 07:01hrs | | 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 its Gweru district leaders ordered that school de…

Published: 07 Feb 2023 at 05:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

'I was told to stop supporting Mnangagwa'

WE today conclude our interview with Elphas Tshuma, a former guerilla who operated in Hurungwe in Mashonaland West Province and later on in Hwange in Matabeleland North. Tshuma, now a member of the ruling Zanu-PF Politburo was known during…

Published: 05 Feb 2023 at 08:27hrs | | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe schools go digital

At least 35 percent of the schools in Zimbabwe have been connected to the Learning Passport as the Government and its partners continue to adapt learning to the new digital innovations that ensure no child is left behind in accessing educa…

Published: 25 Jan 2023 at 10:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Schools to open despite flood alert

SCHOOLS will open for the 2023 first term tomorrow, with the exception of boarding schools in two provinces where the authorities have issued an adverse weather alert, prompted by downpours over the weekend in parts of the country.The heav…

Published: 08 Jan 2023 at 09:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Schools meet to iron out pupils' rivalry

BOYS' schools in Bulawayo might soon consider enrolling female students as a way of eliminating violence among male students who continue to engage in public fights in the city centre.Pupils from Milton and Gifford high schools have over t…

Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 08:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Where are the human rights defenders when our children are being denied the right to education?

Dear We the Murowa community sympathise with teachers and all the civil servants per se'. Its an undeniable fact that civil servants and the majority of workers are earning peanuts. Its sad to hear that some of the teachers have been …

Published: 12 Feb 2022 at 08:35hrs | | by Concerned Murowa Ward Community

Youth are game-changers

THE purpose of the elections is to elect a few people who can represent us in places of authority. The money in the world can make you rich and all the power in the  world can make you strong, but these things cannot make you a leader…

Published: 19 Oct 2021 at 06:29hrs | 3 | by Mukunda Chitova

Zanu-PF hides behind sanctions to evade accountability

ONE thing Rhodesians could be trusted for was doing that which their country â€” no matter how bizarre â€” wanted done. The Rhodesians would do it, no lip service, something that Zanu-PF finds hard, if not impossible altogether, to do.Zanu…

Published: 19 Oct 2021 at 06:29hrs | 4 | by Concerned

Mnangagwa's office not open for business

MR President, I know you are preaching that your door is open. I appreciate that you're an open-minded President. But my dissatisfaction is about the Office of the President and Cabinet, which for five times has refused to entertain us des…

Published: 19 Oct 2021 at 06:29hrs | | by Inventor

Jailed army cleric found not guilty by High Court

A FIRED senior army cleric, who successfully challenged his six-year prison term at the High Court following his conviction on charges of stealing a car belonging to a business partner and stripping it, is now suing his accuser for more th…

Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 21:39hrs | 1 | by Staff writer

COVID-19 hits 11 schools

ELEVEN schools across the country were forced to shut down yesterday after a significant number of students tested positive for COVID-19, it has emerged.This comes as teacher unions claimed that the deadly pandemic was spreading like veldf…

Published: 15 Sep 2021 at 05:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Schools to remain closed until August 10

GOVERNMENT has gazetted Statutory Instrument (SI) 210 of 2021 to allow for schools to remain closed until August 10, 2021, pending review of the COVID-19 situation in the country.SI 210 of 2021 was published last Friday, a few days after P…

Published: 02 Aug 2021 at 07:44hrs | | by Staff reporter

School bullying mirrors broken society

A FEW days ago, a video of Waddilove High School pupils beating a fellow pupil for not wearing a mask caused an uproar on social media.It was heartbreaking for many parents and guardians to watch as the boy was pummelled while he lay defen…

Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 06:04hrs | 3 | by Phyllis Mbanje

'Shut down schools,' MPs tell govt

PARLIAMENT has recommended that the government immediately shuts down schools, blaming the rising COVID-19 cases on its failure to adequately prepare for the reopening of learning institutions after 57 pupils at Chinhoyi High School tested…

Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:25hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter

Panic strikes Zimbabwe schools

PANIC has gripped the country's education sector as schools and other learning institutions battle to deal with the lethal coronavirus, amid fears of a second wave of the pandemic, the Daily News reports.After 100 pupils tested positive fo…

Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 22:16hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Teachers strike continuing, school heads overwhelmed

THE final phase of the re-opening of public schools countrywide got off to a rocky start yesterday, with many teachers failing to turn up for work â€” forcing some overwhelmed school heads to send learners back home.In Harare, learners fac…

Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 19:41hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter

National Environment Cleaning Day gains momentum in Zimbabwe schools

Walking up and about Harare streets and beyond on every first Friday of the month has become a norm to see the young and old being actively involved in the National Clean-Up campaign. The first Friday of August 2019 was no different with a…

Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 16:44hrs | 1 | by Brian Maregedze

Schools, Households and Businesses are the game changers in curbing electricity crisis in Zimbabwe

Greetings Editor, Of recent I got an interest especially from Zimbabwean  school and I realized that especially schools can be game changers that is in solving power crisis not only in Zim but South Africa as well. Below is the inform…

Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 20:02hrs | 2 | by Justice Maphosa

Delta assists Matabeleland South school

Delta Corporation has constructed two classroom blocks with two fully furnished classrooms each and a 10-hole toilet block at Fairview Primary School in Matabeleland South Province.The initiative, worth $60 000, is part of Delta's Schools …

Published: 04 Dec 2018 at 13:21hrs | | by Staff reporter

Stop bullying in schools

Bullying in schools is real, factual and can be tragic both academically and physically. Some students perform below expectations as a result of being  bullied, in majority of cases, the perpetrators are not academically gifted. The v…

Published: 13 Mar 2018 at 19:40hrs | 2 | by Thomas Murisa, Harare

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 yesterday.Teachers and school heads told members of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on …

Published: 31 Jan 2018 at 05:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Let's stop separating primary school children according to their marks

Yesterday, I was shocked to find out that there is a primary school which - in 2018 - used the previous year's marks to shuffle kids. The obvious result is that the ones with the highest results - those who are subsequently deemed to be th…

Published: 12 Jan 2018 at 13:17hrs | 1 | by Joyline Maenzanise

Closure of 40 Matabeleland South schools atrociously genocidal and unjust

The decision by the failing Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education to close 40 Matabeleland South schools on the basis of low enrolment figures (as communicated by the Permanent Secretary Dr Slyvia Utete-Masango on Monday 22 May 2017)…

Published: 23 May 2017 at 11:13hrs | | by Benedict Sibasa

Teacher Pupil ratio, cause for concern.

Teacher pupil ratio in most primary and secondary schools in Zimbabwe currently stood at 1:50 and in some extreme cases one teacher to 80 learners, a scenario which definitely compromises quality of the end result.Just imagine how parents …

Published: 04 Mar 2017 at 17:47hrs | | by Tendai Guta

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