How can eLearning proceed in Zimbabwe, confronted as it is with such severe educational problems?
Eliada Gudza: Our education system basically faces two problems: the lack of adequate funding for schools and the continued massive drift of qualified teachers and professional leadership to other countries and the private sector. The first problem emanates from the Government’s poor capability to fund education, as well as the powerlessness of parents, especially those living in underserved rural and urban high-density areas. This has resulted in a highly noticeable degeneration of schools both in terms of their infrastructure and the quality of teaching and learning. We hear appalling reports of pupil-text book ratios of 10-1. Also, where computers exist at all, there could be as few as ten computers in a school of over 400 students. Class sizes in some schools still exceed fifty and double sessions (popularly known as hot-seating) have not yet gone away. Many children remain undernourished, and the minimum conditions for learning are not being met. The second problem is about good t
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