COVID-19 has upended the 2020 school calender with schools only opening last month for the second and last month of the term. Finishing classes also have to complete their exams in a hurry so they can proceed either to college or Form 5 and Form One. The problem though is that exams are still ongoing even for Grade […]
It has been two years since the two districts of Chimanimani and Chipinge were hit hard by Cyclone Idai which left over a thousand people dead or missing and already the region has another trauma to deal with. The region was recently affected by a hailstorm that blew off the roof of several schools and washed away essential […]
When the government announced that schools were going to reopen teachers were up in arms citing incapacitation. A lot of teachers have not been reporting for duty for this reason essentially meaning that they are on strike. That has not been a big deal so far as only completing classes are going to school due to the phased […]
We now know that those who are doing final classes i.e. Grade Sevens, Form Fours and Form Sixes are set to return to school next week but what about the rest of the students? When will they be returning to school in 2020? Are they even going to attend classes this year? Well, the government has come […]
2020 has been one strange year in many regards. Schools have been closed since March when the government was forced to curtail learning in a bid to slow the rate at which the virus could spread. For a while we were also not sure whether students would be writing their final examinations this year but that has since […]
The government has finally come out and admitted what we have known for weeks. Schools are going to open later this month. On the 28 of September to be exact. This is for those who were scheduled to write their final examinations this year i.e. the so-called final classes. Exams are scheduled to begin on 1 December and […]
On Tuesday we were startled to learn that the government wanted the November examinations to go ahead. This is the latest contradictory message from the government and we are not even sure what Minister Mutsvangwa meant by this. Our guess was that she just meant to say that the government was working on schools to reopen in a […]
The question on everyone’s minds when it comes to education in Zimbabwe is: When will schools reopen? The last time schools had any sort of activity whatsoever was when June candidates were essentially coerced into writing their June exams in what turned out to be a chaotic operation with reports that some villagers were roped in to become […]
When it comes to this year’s school program there is so much uncertainty. The government was pushing for schools to reopen towards the end of this month but that plan is now dead in the water thanks to a surge in coronavirus cases and deaths. The government has now postponed the reopening of schools indefinitely. This has left […]
The government has said that schools will only reopen once it’s safe to do so even if it means not reopening this year. This sudden reversal in attitude has been brought about by the spike in local Covid-19 cases with recorded cases now well over 1 000 and deaths totalling 20 at the time of writing. The government’s […]
