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ZINASU President Meets Parliamentary Portfolio on Higher Education
Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU) (Chinyere)
March 22, 2010

The ZINASU President, Joshua Chinyere today, 22 March 2010 met with the Parliamentary Portfolio on Higher and Tertiary Education to present a paper on the effects of the Government, Cadetship programme on students.

The cadetship programme introduced by Government in 2006 has done little in assisting students in institutions of higher learning. The scheme was introduced after the Government put to hold the grant/loan system which used to cushion students in tertiary institutions through paying for their tuition fees. The cadetship scheme assisted less than 7% of the total number of intended beneficiaries. The scheme was shroud with secrecy since its inception and contains clauses which are restrictive to students.

The Parliamentary Portfolio documented the challenges which will be used in trying to improve the education sector in Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe Youth council meets stakeholders

The National Youth Council held an all stakeholders meeting on Friday, 19 March 2010 at Great Zimbabwe, Masvingo. The meeting discussed among other issues, the need to come up with what stakeholders want to be incorporated in the youth council in order to make it effective and non partisan.

The ZINASU President made a presentation on the challenges facing the education sector. He highlighted the failure of the Government to fully fund tertiary education, the flouting of unqualified teaching personnel in many colleges, the continued victimization of students activists in many institutions by college authorities and state apparatus and the general decay of infrastructure in colleges.

Other stakeholders also highlighted the need to ensure the Council is an all inclusive apolitical body that genuinely addresses the needs of youth without discrimination on the grounds of political affiliation, age or gender.

Some of the major issues discussed included:

• The crafting of an independent National Youth Policy
• A consensus was reached that the Minister of Youth should not be given the jurisdiction to appoint board members as he or she is a symbol of a certain political party.

Some of the youths formations present included, YET, YAD, Zimbabwe Arts GROUP, Allied Youth for Justice, and Youth in Mining, Zimbabwe Congress of Students Union among other organizations.

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