BULAWAYO, SEPT 10, (SOUTHERN EYE LIVE): Primary and Secondary Education minister Torerayi Moyo has begun a tour of disadvantaged satellite and unregistered schools in Binga and Hwange districts to appreciate their challenges.
Moyo is leading a delegation of officials from his ministry.
The delegation will evaluate infrastructure, teacher preparedness and academic performance in schools across the two Matabeleland North districts.
“We are making an assessment and evaluation of the state of our infrastructure and comparing the results that were produced by these disadvantaged schools,” Moyo said.
He noted that many satellite schools in Binga were not yet registered with the ministry.
“We shall be checking if the infrastructure is adequate and, if there are gaps, we shall recommend construction of additional classrooms and even laboratories for science subjects as well as computers,” he said.
The minister said officials would also verify whether teachers had schemed for the whole term and were ready for classes.
“Where there are challenges, we shall give remedial work to those teachers.I must emphasise that we won’t hesitate to punish whoever misbehaves, not attending to their work in time.”
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With the shortened third term underway due to public examinations, the delegation will also scrutinise past examination results.
“We want to see if there are schools that have registered 0% pass rates and we should know why those results were posted,” Moyo said.
He also announced plans to accelerate the rollout of Starlink kits to satellite schools to bridge the digital divide.
“The Starlink kits were provided to the ministry by our President (Emmerson Mnangagwa) because he values education. For his vision to be realised in 2030, we should invest heavily in education,” he said.
