The Herald
By Herald Reporter
23 May 2013
The Education, Sports, Arts and Culture Ministry has applied for US$23 million from the World Bank’s Global Partnership for Education for teacher retraining. Speaking at a press conference in Harare yesterday Education, Sports, Arts and Culture Minister David Coltart said Zimbabwe had never benefited from this funding because of unnamed domestic challenges yet other countries throughout Africa had benefited.
The decision on whether the country’s application was successful or not was expected anytime this week.
If it is not approved, he said Government would seek resources from the ETF for the programme.
“If the funding application is successful, Zimbabwe will in the next few years benefit from the US$23 million for teacher retraining. You will appreciate that it does not matter how many text books you have in a classroom. Even if you have the perfect roofing and have desks, if you don’t have motivated and trained teachers in the latest possible standards, your education sector is undermined,†Minister Coltart said.