Coltart Lynching Clouds Debate
News Day By Kholwani Nyathi 6 February 2013 There is no doubt Education, Sport, Arts and Culture minister David Coltart is one of the best performing ministers in the inclusive government and this makes the ongoing media onslaught against him rather curious. Coltart appears to have touched a raw nerve when he caused the Sports
O Level Results Paint Sorry Picture
News Day 6 February 2013 Last week the social media was inundated with results of the sons and daughters of the right and famous in Zimbabwe who had sat for Cambridge Ordinary Level examinations as their mothers and fathers brandished their chains of ‘A’s. But despite our own Zimsec and education system rated as one
Coltart responds to 81 percent O level failure rate
Nehanda Radio 6 February 2013 Zimbabwe was plunged into serious debate after 81.6 percent of children failed their 2012 Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) Ordinary Level examinations, a drop from the previous year’s equally shocking 80.5 percent. Only 31,767 pupils out of 172,698 countrywide passed in five subjects with Zimsec attributing the decline to an
‘O’ Level results spark debate
News Day 6 February 2013 EDUCATION, Sport and Culture minister David Coltart yesterday attributed the poor Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) 2012 “O†Level to the crisis that beset the education sector before the formation of the inclusive government. The results generated a heated debate with a number of Zimbabweans calling for an overhaul of
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. Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister David Coltart, however, blamed the drop on an increase in the number of candidates who sat
Taylor unhappy with cuts in coaching staff
ESPN Cricinfo By Firdose Moonda 6 February 2013 Zimbabwe’s captain Brendan Taylor has labelled it a “step in the wrong direction” that coaching support staff will not travel with the team to the Caribbean for their series against West Indies later this month. A change to the technical structure of Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) has resulted in smaller
Coltart admits O’ Level results ‘crisis’
New Zimbabwe 5 February 2013 EDUCATION Minister David Coltart on Tuesday blamed the disappointing November 2012 Ordinary Level examination results on the “extreme crisis in education experienced between approximately 2005 and 2009â€. Results released on Monday showed 81,6 percent of the 172,698 who sat for the examinations failed to pass at least five subjects with
What is the ideal political party for Zimbabwe?
Sunday News By Stanford Chiwanga 3 February 2013 Zimbabwe is set to hold elections this year where the majority of citizens are expected to vote into power a political party that they deem to possess the ideal principles to lead the country into an era of sustained development and harmony. It is a fact that
Good amendments but wrong timing
The Standard By Brian Nkiwane 3 February 2013 For the past few weeks I have been closely following what has been happening in the local cricket world where insults and accusations are flying from one end to the other. The war of words that is spreading like a veld fire, moving from print media to
Do not dilute education quality
The Chronicle By Stephen Mpofu 1 February 2013 After a phenomenal growth which started shortly after independence and has continued over the years, some people with inverted mindsets now want Zimbabwe to lower its flag of triumph in education for reasons best known to themselves. Shame on them! This indictment is directed at the Zimbabwe