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Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>The Minister of Primary and Secondary Education, Torerai Moyo, has said the Government will soon shut down all unregistered private schools.<\/p>\n

Responding to questions from journalists during a Post Cabinet briefing on Tuesday, Moyo said all private schools should be registered or else they will soon face closure. He said (via The Herald):<\/p>\n

The Government plans to ensure that we establish as many schools as possible because we have a deficit in terms of the number of schools. The latest information is that we have a shortage of close to 2 800 schools.<\/p>\n

The shortage has seen the proliferation and mushrooming of schools which we want to define as private.<\/p>\n

I have to be very clear, the private schools that we want must be registered with the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education.
\nThose that are mushrooming in the high-density suburbs in the majority of cases, are illegal schools because they are not registered. They are operating illegally.<\/p>\n

Moyo said he will soon present a paper before Cabinet that will result in all unregistered schools being shut down. He said:<\/p>\n

In fact, we are going to come up with a paper that I will present in Cabinet where we are going to outlaw those schools, perhaps we might give them a grace period depending on what Cabinet would have recommended. We are going to close all the illegal schools operating illegally.<\/p>\n

As a Ministry, we are supposed to ensure that there is quality, equitable and inclusive education. But in the so-called private school that we have seen, somebody will have a school in his or her backyard, and learners are squeezed or jam-packed in a very small room and chances of diseases spreading are high because the condition compromises quality.<\/p>\n

Those are the schools that we do not want. We want private schools to be registered according to the specifications of the Ministry where we can control the quality.<\/p>\n

In 2022, authorities shut down 320 out of 448 schools and colleges in Harare that were operating illegally.<\/p>\n

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