adminWEDNESDAY 27 May, 2015, the provincial chief of education was at St Noah College in deep rural Bocha. Friday 29 May, 2015 he was out again at Old Mutare Mission in Mutasa District. The import of his two visits was the same on both occasions; officiating merit award ceremonies for best school achievers and individual students at Primary, Secondary and High school levels.
“It is a parental obligation,” Mr Edward Shumba said.
“You do not want your children to point at your grave when you are dead and gone and say, ‘here lies the man or woman who is the source of my misery.’”
Being the man at the helm of education in the province, Shumba emphasised how education and schools must assist to champion Zim-Asset compliance, how the curriculum is already changing to address industrial competency or vocational ability and how PLAP (Performance Lagging Address Programme) continues to improve the pass rate in Manicaland.
At both Hartzell and the Johanne Marange centre of academic equilibrium, St Noah College, Mr Shumba thanked organisers of the award ceremonies, NASH and NAPH national associations of school heads for Secondary and Primary schools respectively for making both ceremonies a success.
The Mutasa chapter which was the district’s inaugural ceremony was graced by Chief Mutasa and the National Assembly member representing Mutasa North, Honourable L.P. Masamvu who was standing in for Higher and Tertiary Education minister, Cde Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri.
Both ceremonies, at St. Noah College for Mutare District and at Hartzell High School for Mutasa district could not have succeeded without the generosity and support of schools and companies which donated buses, food, soft drinks, prizes and other items without which both ceremonies would have been a flop.
The Manica Post will next week dedicate space to acknowledging their invaluable support for the two districts to host hugely successful merit awards ceremonies.
Online Reporter