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The Devastating Effect of Zimbabwean Politics on Children’s Education and Literacy Policy
The European Union (EU) has given Zimbabwe a grant this month to distribute exercise books and learning materials to Zimbabwe’s more than 5000 primary schools. The grant will be given through United Nations Children’s Fund. In the last twenty years, Zimbabwe has drastically reduced funding for education from about US$6 per child to $0.70 last year as political leaders diverted resources to consolidating power. Zimbabwean children are being taught the same curriculum taught their parents 27 years ago because there had been no effort to develop new and improved curricula since 1983.Speaking yesterday, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said that the public school system has collapsed over the past decade of political turmoil and economic crisis because of under-funding, while teachers deserted classes because of political violence. EU head of delegation in Zimbabwe, Xavier Marchal has said yesterday’s UN grant was part of the EU’s support to the Harare power-sharing government’s efforts to rebuild the country.
“Twenty years later, government pays literally nothing towards schools per capita grant (and) teachers’ allowances are on the paltry side and worse still (teachers are) a prey for the militia,” he said, referring to the pro-Mugabe youth militia that has attacked teachers as punishment for not backing the veteran leader.
Tsvangirai said where two students would share a textbook in the 80s today at least 14 percent of schools have virtually no textbooks at all.
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