The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education has established strategic command centres across the country to combat unethical practices that take place in the education field.
Parents, guardians, teachers and pupils are advised to make use of the command centres and their focal persons to make reports or concerns that they come across.
Zimbabwe’s education sector faces a number of challenges, including teacher shortages, infrastructure pressure, an economic crisis, poor education quality, ‘hot seating,’ overcrowded classrooms, a lack of funding, charges for extra lessons, and unequal education access in rural and urban areas, all of which impede the provision of quality education.
“The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education has activated strategic command centres throughout the country to actively deal with unsavoury practices within the sector,” confirmed the Director of Communications and Advocacy in the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education, Taungana Ndoro.
“Such practices include but are not limited to chasing away pupils for nonpayment of fees, conducting paid for extra-lessons, discrimination and corruption in enrolment, use of corporal punishment, charging of unapproved fees and levies amongst other malpractices.”
Ndoro urged parents, guardians, teachers and pupils to make use of the centres.
“Parents, guardians, teachers and pupils are advised to make use of the command centre focal persons so that every school-going child has access to quality, relevant, equitable and wholesome primary and secondary education,” the education ministry spokesperson
