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Articles from Zimbabwe

  1. Equity and inclusion 11 June 2026

    Education voices | Changing hearts and minds to end child labour and keep girls in school

    Ndakaziva Masinire

    To mark World Day against Child Labour, we are featuring the story of Ms Ndakaziva Masinire, Deputy Head of Goromokwa Primary School in Zimbabwe. She works to end child labour in her community and ensure girls are not deprived of their fundamental right to education, as part of a project...

    Education voices | Changing hearts and minds to end child labour and keep girls in school
  2. Equity and inclusion 11 June 2026

    Education International and its members bring over 5,700 children out of child labour and into school

    Education International and its members are part of a program that empowers teachers and mobilises communities against child labour. The approach which involves capacity building, union partnership, and community engagement is delivering outstanding results and effecting enduring change.

    Education International and its members bring over 5,700 children out of child labour and into school
  3. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 20 June 2025

    Go Public: Zimbabwe's education union’s successful push towards education quality and funding

    Awareness raising activities in all regions of the country, continued dialogue between educators and policymakers, enhanced teacher professional training and certification. These are some of the achievements of the Zimbabwe Teacher’s Association (ZIMTA) since the national launch of the Education International (EI) Go Public! Fund Education campaign.

    Go Public: Zimbabwe's education union’s successful push towards education quality and funding
  4. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 12 June 2025

    Over 1,880 children brought back to school thanks to education unions working to end child labour

    Across 6 countries in Africa, education union programmes against child labour are delivering life-changing results. In 2024 alone, over 1,880 former child labourers have been returned to classrooms in project areas in Burundi, Malawi, Mali, Togo, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.

    Over 1,880 children brought back to school thanks to education unions working to end child labour
  5. Leading the profession 23 April 2025

    Education International brings hope and effective strategies to curb child labour

    Thanks to an Education International project on child labour, working with union members and their local communities, 1,880 children were brought back to school last year in six participating countries: Burundi, Malawi, Mali, Togo, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.

    Education International brings hope and effective strategies to curb child labour
  6. Equity and inclusion 10 December 2024

    Malawi: Coming together across borders to eradicate child labour

    Education unionists from Burundi, Mali, Senegal, Togo, Uganda, and Zimbabwe came together in Malawi to learn about successful local efforts to end child labour. From 1 to 6 December 2024, coordinators and project leaders spearheading the unions’ work against child labour had the opportunity to exchange know-how and good practice...

    Malawi: Coming together across borders to eradicate child labour
  7. Leading the profession 12 July 2024

    Against all odds: the union’s victory to elevate the status of college lecturers in Zimbabwe

    David Dzatsunga

    How does a lecturers’ union influence legislative change and restore the status of its members in a toxic, polarized, and polarising political environment? Through commitment, resilience and indomitable will. This article chronicles the unlikely victory of the College Lecturers Association of Zimbabwe (COLAZ) that saw the Government of Zimbabwe enact...

    Against all odds: the union’s victory to elevate the status of college lecturers in Zimbabwe
  8. Fighting the commercialisation of education 12 June 2023

    ComNet: Communicators working together to change the narrative around public education

    Around 100 communicators working in education unions gathered online on June 1st as part of Education International (EI) Communicators’ Network (ComNet). They reconnected, exchanged experiences and ideas, and got ready to bring the EI “Go Public! Fund Education” campaign forward.

    ComNet: Communicators working together to change the narrative around public education
  10. Standards and working conditions 4 August 2022

    Zimbabwe: Education unions commit to unite to advance social dialogue and quality education

    Education unions in Zimbabwe affiliated to Education International have vowed to unite and work together in the social dialogue processes taking place in their country, aiming to achieve improved outcomes for workers in the education sector.

    Zimbabwe: Education unions commit to unite to advance social dialogue and quality education
  12. Leading the profession 21 October 2020

    “Africa: Collaboration between Unions and Governments for a Better Future in Education”, by Cherine Sabry.

    Cherine Sabry

    Unions and governments have been in conflict since the dawn of time. The mere existence of unions as a force to defend workers’ rights where governments fail to do so in and of itself leads to this conflictual relationship. In Africa, unions have rarely been consulted during the COVID-19 crisis...

    “Africa: Collaboration between Unions and Governments for a Better Future in Education”, by Cherine Sabry.
  13. Trade union rights are human rights 21 October 2020

    Zimbabwe: Government must pay teachers decent salaries for them to resume work

    The Zimbabwe Teachers’ Association (ZIMTA) and the Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) find themselves in confrontation with the government over teachers’ salaries and ‘incapacitation’, as teachers remain out of the classroom. They have urged the Government to improve its financial offer to teachers in order to get them to...

    Zimbabwe: Government must pay teachers decent salaries for them to resume work
  16. Trade union rights are human rights 29 June 2020

    Zimbabwe: Trade unions win court battle on school re-opening

    The Government of Zimbabwe announced that schools would reopen, already for examinations in late June and move forward in steps in the following weeks to re-open schools despite risks of an intensification of COVID-19 infections. Education trade unions challenged the re-openings as unsafe and premature and called for social dialogue...

    Zimbabwe: Trade unions win court battle on school re-opening
  17. Equity and inclusion 12 June 2020

    “Getting children back to school after the COVID-19 closures: how EI's child labour projects empowered teachers and their unions”, by Nora Wintour.

    Nora Wintour

    In the research study, conducted in 2018 and 2019 “EI/AOb Child Labour Projects: Transnational best practices and union impacts”, I examined how professional training programmes have enhanced teachers capacity to attract and retain children in school through participatory education techniques and how as a result of the child labour projects,...

    “Getting children back to school after the COVID-19 closures: how EI's child labour projects empowered teachers and their unions”, by Nora Wintour.
  18. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 5 June 2020

    ‘You can work from home if the situation at home allows’: Teaching in times of the pandemic, by Josiah Taru.

    Josiah Taru

    The closure of schools has been commended as one of the most effective mitigatory measures to arrest the rapid spread of Covid-19 so far. Millions of learners and educators have been forced to continue learning through emergency remote instruction that involves online teaching. This presents novel challenges for educators in...

    ‘You can work from home if the situation at home allows’: Teaching in times of the pandemic, by Josiah Taru.