HARARE
–
Private
school
learners
will
be
compelled
to
sit
ZIMSEC
examinations
from
2027,
the
Minister
of
Primary
and
Secondary
Education
has
announced.
Torerayi
Moyo
told
the
Senate
on
Friday
that
schools
can
still
continue
offering
Cambridge
examinations
–
but
only
in
addition
to
ZIMSEC.
“Starting
next
year,
all
the
schools
in
this
country
are
going
to
offer
one
examination,
the
Zimbabwe
School
Examination
Council.
It
will
be
mandatory
for
all
the
schools
in
Zimbabwe,
according
to
the
law.
The
law
says
that
there
must
be
one
curriculum,
which
is
in
the
Constitution
of
Zimbabwe,”
Moyo
said.
The
minister,
who
said
he
visited
England
last
month,
noted
that
English
schools
had
moved
away
from
Cambridge
examinations
in
favour
of
AQA,
and
that
all
schools
there
were
required
to
follow
the
national
curriculum.
“It
is
only
here
that
people
think
that
Cambridge
examinations
are
the
best,”
he
said.
“That
is
why
we
have
said
that
in
2027,
every
school
must
be
offering
Zimbabwe
School
Examination
Council
examinations
but
we
have
allowed
them,
if
they
think
their
students
are
bright
and
intelligent
enough,
they
can
offer
both
Cambridge
and
ZIMSEC
but
they
must
justify
how
they
are
going
to
achieve
it.”
It
was
not
immediately
clear
how
Moyo
intends
to
enforce
the
directive.