Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Zimbabwe Education in Chaos as 2008 Exams Still Unmarked
Zimbabwe’s government is frantically mobilising teachers to mark last year’s public examinations, amid fears schools may fail to reopen for the new term on January 27, plunging education deeper into chaos. Zimbabwe’s once admired public education sector is in crisis, weighed down by incessant strikes for more pay by teachers that disrupted learning for most of last year and a severe brain drain that has seen thousands of the best qualified teachers leave for better paying jobs abroad.
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