The cabinet approved the new Heritage-Based Education Curriculum for 2024-2030

The cabinet approved the new Heritage-Based Education Curriculum for 2024-2030 

The new competency-based curriculum that ran from the year 2015 to the year 2022, extending beyond 2022 to 2024, brought so many changes to our Zimbabwean education system. Students, Schools, teachers and parents found themselves having to keep up with the new curriculum by buying new curriculum books. Schools found themselves having to add more subjects to their academic basket while teachers had to adopt new teaching and lesson delivery techniques to suit the requirements of the new curriculum.

Last year in 2023, the Ministry of Education invited schools, teachers and parents to bring their reviews and recommendations so that another curriculum could be adopted. The reviews and recommendations led to a new Heritage Based Education curriculum.

Cabinet received and approved the Heritage-Based Education 2024-2030 Curriculum Framework. It is expected to transform the education system to produce citizens with relevant skills, applied knowledge, values and dispositions that are key to national development, beginning with the communities they serve.

The Primary and Secondary Education System is designed to mould productive learners who will cherish and practice the Zimbabwean philosophical orientation of Unhu/Ubuntu/Vumunhu. The proposed curriculum will embrace Heritage as a basis for learning and infusing technology and shall be implemented from ECD up to the Upper Secondary level.

The pathways whose learning areas are provided for in the framework, are Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM); Visual Performing Arts; Humanities especially the history of Zimbabwe; Technical/Vocational Education and Training (TVET); and Commercials.