The Impact Of The Economic Structural Adjustment Programme On Education In Zimbabwe

A ZBTE article on the impact of SAPS (Stractural Adjustment Programs) on Zimbabwean education.This paper discusses the impact that the Economic Structural Adjustment Programme (ESAP) has had on the education system in Zimbabwe. It contrasts the racially based colonial education system with the democratic one introduced at independence. The paper then shows how the ESAP has adversely affected the quality of the democratic education introduced at independence. The effective re-incarnation of the previously discarded differential education system is explained in the process. The paper uses much historical data to bring out these phenomena

Government and missionary policies on African secondary education in Southern Rhodesia with special reference to the Anglican and Wesleyan Methodist churches 1934-1971

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Secondary education reform in Lesotho and Zimbabwe and the needs of rural girls: Pronouncements, policy and practice

Analysis of the educational needs of rural girls in Lesotho and Zimbabwe suggests a number of shortcomings in the current form of secondary education, and ways in which it might be modified so as to serve this sizeable group of students better. Several of the shortcomings, notably in relation to curricular irrelevance and excessive focus on examinations, have long been recognised, including by politicians. Yet political pronouncements are seldom translated into policy, and even where policy is formulated, reforms are seldom implemented in schools. This paper makes use of interviews with educational decision-makers in the two southern African countries and a range of documentary sources to explore why, despite the considerable differences between the two contexts, much needed educational reforms have been implemented in neither