The new administration led by President Mnangagwa is highly committed to improving the education sector and has pledged to address concerns of teachers and improve their welfare. Among the notable achievements the new dispensation has registered so far is reviewing the new education curriculum following public outcry that it requires a lot of resources, which the country currently does not have, it has reduced tuition fees for students on industrial attachment and teaching practice, continues to feed children under the schools feeding programme as well as constructing schools countrywide to improve the quality of education.
Parents and students applauded Government for its decision that all Higher and Tertiary Education students on industrial attachment and teaching practice will now pay 60 percent of tuition fees with immediate effect. Announcing the news in a Press statement on March 7, 2018, the permanent secretary in the Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development, Desire Mutize Sibanda, said the new policy abolishes Circular No. 6 of 1997, which required students on attachment to pay full tuition fees.
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