Asilimia 82 ya wanafunzi wamefeli mtihani Zimbabwe!

82% ya wanafunzi nchini Zimbabwe wamefeli mitihani yao na miongoni mwa sababu zilizotajwa kuchangia ni uhaba wa walimu. Inasemekana zaidi ya walimu 35,000 wamekimbia nchini humo kwenda kufanya kazi nje ya nchi.
Source:BBC asubuhi ya leo.
My take:Hapa kwetu wastani wa kufaulu ungepunguzwa ili kuonesha kiwango cha ufaulu kinaridhisha hata kama hali halisi ni tofauti.

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81 percent students fail O'Level Exams

http://www.swradioafrica.com

By Violet Gonda
05 February 2013

81.6 percent of children failed their 2012 Zimbabwe School Examination
Council (ZIMSEC) Ordinary Level examinations, a drop from the previous year's
equally shocking 80.5 percent, amid calls for a curriculum review of
Zimbabwe's education sector.

Zimbabwe School Examinations Council director, Esau Nhandara, announced on
Monday that only 31,767 pupils out of 172,698 countrywide passed in five
subjects.

He attributed the decline to an increase in the number of students who
registered for the exam, which went up by over 20,000 from last year.

Surprisingly Shona, the mother tongue for the majority of the candidates,
the pass rate was only 18%. The pass rate in English was 20% but only 13%
for maths.

Education minister David Coltart told SW Radio Africa that the country's
education sector remains in crisis and there are a variety of factors that
have contributed to the decline in the pass rate.

He said Zimbabwe lost at least 20,000 teachers, especially between 2004 and
2009, at the height of the economic and political crisis in Zimbabwe.

Coltart said it was inevitable that there would have been an impact. "In
2008 there was hardly any teaching that took place in schools. There weren't
textbooks and unfortunately there is a batch of children now coming through
the system whose education was affected by those calamitous times."

The minister blamed the government for failing to make the education sector
a priority and investing adequately into education. He said the government
has to cut down expenditure on other sectors, such as the defence ministry,
and should spend more on education otherwise the results will continue to
decline.

ZIMSEC has not had a more than 25% pass rate since its implementation in
2003. Coltart said this was because Zimbabwe's education sector had an
academic bias.

The Nziramasanga Commission on Education reported in 1999 that the education
sector needed to be more vocationally oriented as not all children are
academically gifted.

"This is why we need to adjust our curriculum to have far more vocational
subjects that are examinable at O'Level and A'Level," Coltart said.

Some observers say the quality and assessment of the children who went
through the UK Cambridge system seemed to work well before the
transformation to the ZIMSEC exams.

But Coltart disagreed, saying ZIMSEC has a very high standard and is an
institution that Zimbabweans should be proud of and should maintain through
teacher training, curriculum development and financing.

"Cambridge exams are four times more expensive than ZIMSEC exams and parents
are struggling as it is to pay ZIMSEC fees. The minister added: "I think it
is harder to pass a ZIMSEC exam than it is to pass a Cambridge exam."

Hata hapa Tanzania, kama si kushusha ufaulu wa Elimu ya msingi, hali halisi ya ufaulu ni kama huko Zimbabwe. Hata hivyo, Zimbabwe imepita katika hali ngumu sana kisiasa na kiuchumi, hivyo nitashangaa sana ikiwa kama kuna Mtanzania atajaribu kuwakashfu au kuona Tanzania ipo salama.