BULAWAYO The Ministry of Education, Arts Sports and Culture has taken steps to ensure that the nearly 110 000 students who failed to register for this years public examinations, will sit for the examinations, an official has said. The Provincial Director of Education for Bulawayo Metropolitan province Dan Moyo said school heads in the country submitted the names of students who failed to pay the examination fees to the Ministry last week.
The deadline for handing in the names was on Friday last week. The lists contains the names of candidates who paid for a lesser number of subjects than they intended to write and those who failed to register, totally, he said.
Moyo said the Minister of Education, Arts, Sports and Culture, Senator David Coltart, was likely to present the problem of unpaid fees to cabinet.
The cabinet is then likely to engage ZIMSEC on behalf of the Ministry, to come up with a solution, said the provincial director.
An official from ZIMSEC was quoted last week saying the examination board would not allow anyone who has not paid to sit for the examinations this year. The official said the Government should settle the US $5 million that it owes the board from last year.
Moyo said this was one of the problems that the ministry would address and expressed confidence that a solution that would work for everyone would be reached.
He could not be drawn to reveal number of students who failed to register in Bulawayo saying Coltart would reveal the figures in due course.
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