Zimbabwean Schools - 'Factories of Failure'
The drop in ordinary level pass rate to eighteen percent has raised serious concerns about a country whose educational system was once the envy of the continent.
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Zimbabwe: Schools Turned Into Factories of Failure (editorial)
Zimbabwe Standard, 17 February 2013
Once upon a time, Zimbabweans believed education was a sure-fire ticket out of poverty; no more. Perhaps old-school parents still do, but their children don't! Until the belief in ... read more »
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Zimbabwe: Education Rot - Sweeping Changes Vital
Zimbabwe Standard, 17 February 2013
THE poor results registered at Ordinary level in 2012 are a wakeup call for the government to introduce sweeping changes to the country's education system, experts have said. read more »
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Zimbabwe: Acting Heads Man 80 Percent of Zim Schools - Coltart
The Herald, 14 February 2013
CLOSE to 80 percent of school headmasters countrywide are in an acting capacity, amid reports that those aspiring to fill the posts do not have the requisite qualifications. Most ... read more »
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Zimbabwe: O-Level Results Need Holistic Analysis (analysis)
The Herald, 13 February 2013
October-November 2012 Ordinary Level examination results are out and are now in the public domain. Zimbabwe has again recorded one of the lowest O-Level pass rates since ... read more »
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Zimbabwe: 0'level Results - Don't Blame the Children
Zimbabwe Standard, 10 February 2013
In spite of high-sounding noises to the contrary, governments don't want children to pass examinations! This is a disturbing fact that all parents don't know and have never been ... read more »
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Zimbabwe: Panic As Results Withheld Over Suspected Cheating
The Herald, 8 February 2013
THE Zimbabwe School Examinations Council has withheld some results for 2012 Ordinary and Advanced Level examinations for several schools amid suspicion that candidates cheated, ... read more »
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Zimbabwe: O-Level Pass Rate Drops
The Herald, 8 February 2013
NOVEMBER 2012 Ordinary Level results are out with only 31 767 pupils having attained passes in five subjects out of 172 698 who sat for the public examinations. The pass rate ... read more »
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Movement for Democratic Change, 8 February 2013
The MDC is alarmed by the decline in Zimbabwe's education since ruination of the economy from 1998 up to 2009 by the Zanu PF government; there has been a steady but disturbing ... read more »
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Zimbabwe: Coltart's Statement Revealing (opinion)
The Herald, 8 February 2013
While Zimbabweans are still struggling to digest the appalling news that 81,6 percent of the 172,698 pupils who took Zimsec's "O" Level examinations in 2012 failed to pass at least ... read more »
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Zimbabwe: O-Level Failure Rate a Cause for Concern (editorial)
The Herald, 6 February 2013
The November 2012 Ordinary Level results that were released on Monday put a dent on the reputation gained by the country in education since independence in 1980. The fact that ... read more »
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Zimbabwe: Fall in O-Level Pass Rate Blamed On 'Demotivated' Teachers'
The Herald, 6 February 2013
Educationists attributed the decline in the Ordinary Level pass rate to lack of motivation on teachers and an increase in untrained teachers that have flooded the education sector. ... read more »
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Zimbabwe: 2012 O-Level Results Out
The Herald, 5 February 2013
NOVEMBER 2012 Ordinary Level results are out with only 31 767 pupils having attained passes in five subjects out of 172 698 who sat for the public examinations. The pass rate ... read more »
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This goes without saying for a most corrupt government that is only bent on self-hype, criminal and dishonest undertakings throwing all caution to the wind in regards to the welfare of Zimbabweans in its striving for self-serving power and wealth at any cost. The breakdown of education is one of the many ways the Mugabe government has failed its people.
There are many things to consider. For instance, what is the budget allocated by government to education and when was the last time the educational system was reviewed taking into account the student curricular, the standard of education required for teacher-training, and once qualified , a good salary scale?
Once again Mugabe has held onto power at any cost changing what should have been the best of what Africa can do to the best example of Africa's failure. As far as I know, Mrs Grace Todd, the wife of the then Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia in 1953 to 1958, created the first syllabus for primary education in 1934 laying the foundation of what became Zimbabwe's finest education in the sub-Sahara, a system which became known as "The Dadaya Scheme." I wonder how much of that has changed to move with the changing times.
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