By Staff Writer
THE unpopular Continuous Assessment Learning Activities (CALA) tasks are set to be overhauled by February 2024,newly appointed Education Minister,Torerai Moyo has revealed.
The pragmatic Primary and Secondary Education Minister Moyo, who has been on the ground, visiting several schools since the term’s commencement admitted that the initiative was burdensome and very chaotic.
He made the remarks in Chinhoyi, Thursday in a development set to excite the country’s education stakeholders.
“As a ministry, we got complaints from parents who were saying they were doing assignments for their children.Theoretically CALA is good, there is nothing wrong with it but l think it was done haphazardly,” said the Education minister.
“You find a student in Grade Seven doing 27 CALAs, how then (at this rate) do we insist on quality education? So we are going to see some changes before the end of February in terms of CALA.
“Either we reduce the number of CALAs from 27 to two, and at secondary we could say just one CALA…”
The cabinet is scheduled to deliberate on the findings of the curriculum review exercise in early February, before the implementation of recommendations thereafter.
The CALA system has sparked controversy amid calls by most parents for it to be scrapped completely.
Educators are on record saying CALA has increased learning disparities faced by rural pupils as most rural schools lack the infrastructure and resources necessary to administer the contentious curriculum.
