Dokora’s Curriculum Rejected
7 February 2017
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rejected…Minister Lazarus Dokora

Primary and Secondary Education minister Lazarus Dokora’s new curriculum has been rejected.

The union of teachers has extensively engaged its membership and they unanimously agreed that this exercise must be abandoned forthwith if more damage is to be avoided.

The PTUZ said in a written statement: The following were raised in our engagements with the PTUZ Comrades:

1)We have been reduced to clerks
2)There is no time for lesson delivery
3)There are no learning /teaching materials
4)Classes are too big considering the prescribed Tr/Pupil ratio of the New Curriculum.
5)Assesement of the Practical Components is not feasible.
6)ICT not practical in Rural Schools and even some urban Schools
7)Teachers not properly Staff Developed for the ICT Component
8)Mismatch of Teachers and Subjects which will result in forced transfers
8)NO Guidelines/Specimens on Continuous Assesement 5 weeks into the Term (purely a recipe for abuse)
9)Timetables are completely overcrowded.
10)Schools with hot sitting can’t function.
11)Teaching cycles affecting sequence of school syllabus from 5 to 6 day cycles.
12)PE as a compulsory subject has no resource/Text books/no precedent/no equipment/no facilities/no reference texts
13)Mass Display as a compulsory subject has no teachers/no literature/no specimens/no reference texts
14)New Curriculum excludes and shuts the door for repeaters.
15)Introduction of Non Formal Education is burdening the same teacher and adding more confusion.
16)Violent youths now have unfettered access into schools thereby compromising teacher safety.(Political interference highly likely)
17)Conflict with society highly likely as adolescent youths ,young teachers,married women ,all congregate at night .
18)Headmasters not adequately Staff Developed on this new Concept and New Curriculum.
19)Legal framework must be revisited and should be conscious to the new realities on the ground
20)Payments for the NFE duties are hazy and not well explained.
21)Primary kids are overloaded.Content is too broad and too deep.
22)Schools are forced to fund printing of syllabi.Burden has been passed to poor parents.
23)STEM and New Curriculum are conflicting.(Why make Heritage Studies/Agriculture/Mass Displays and PE Compulsory and relegate STEM Subjects to Electives/Optional.
24)Gvt policy of Teacher Recruitmeant freeze is working against the successful implementation of the New Curriculum
25)The haphazard chaotic impromptu half baked and fast tracked implementation raises more questions than answers.We are convinced there are underhand shenanigans going on.Serious monopolies and cartels can run away and enrich themselves along the way.
26)The 10 subject ceiling is retrogressive and unnecessary.Allow our geniuses to excell.

The PTUZ believes consultation,dialogue and transparency are critical if this is to succeed.Up to now stakeholders are yet to be fully consulted.We owe no one an apology for our views.President RG Mugabe must be reminded that his wonderful legacy on Education is seriously underthreat.There is no harm in going back to the drawing board.The earlier we do so the better.

VIVA PTUZ VIVA

0 Replies to “Dokora’s Curriculum Rejected”

  1. So it means vana havana kudzidza apa its almost half term.
    Remember not so long ago we had almost two years of not teaching due to teachers continous strkes?.
    Zanu Pf is deliberately killing our education for its selfish ends. Nxaaaa.
    Now he wants parents money for Zanu Pf projects. Thats how cruel these Zanu Chimpanzees are.

  2. Kuramba kwenyu zvoreva hurumende yabva yamisa here or venharo voita hwaChigwedere zvokupa mazita ehondo zvikoro zvose gore riya zvikaperera kumakuva . Nemahwiro andaitavo vanhu vaivovoro nefundo itsva iyi izvo zvinhu zvakagozha kudai

  3. Dokora’s mandate is to destroy the current (or former) education system because it produced critical and marketable graduates. The idea is to produce an indoctrinated graduate that sheepishly worships ZANU pf and never leaves the country because of incompetence. Robert is 100% aware of what Dokora is doing. No minister can do what this guy is doing without a blessing from baba aChatunga. He won’t last a day.

  4. The truth is Zimbabwean Education System as it is now is one of the best in Africa. There is no need to change the system.
    Maybe the minister!!!
    You just have to take a look at the neighbouring countries – they don’t dare to blame Mugabe on his undemocratic way of ruling the country, because they are profiting a great deal from the zim education system (brain drain). Educated people are looking for better pastures in SA, Botswana, Namibia, Mozambique etc. etc. Even the UK is profiting from the zim brain drain … Hahaaaaaa

  5. You cannot reject what Mugabe has approved. You have worshipped mugabe as your god for a long time . So do what your god commands you to do . You blood idiots!