The study sought to determine the effectiveness of the implementation of Continuous Assessment Learning Activities (CALA) by the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education in Nyanga, Zimbabwe. The researchers were motivated to carry out the research due to the endless outcry by students who are finding CALA difficult to execute and teachers who are also finding it difficult to guide the students. The initiative was introduced by the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education arguably without proper planning and budgeting, which has so far affected the implementation process. The researchers adopted an exploratory research approach to understand the key factors that have impacted on the implementation of Continuous Assessment Learning Activities (CALA) in Zimbabwe. A qualitative research approach was used by the researcher through the use of questionnaires as a data collection instrument for the research. A total of 35 questionnaires were distributed to both the students and teachers from various schools in Nyanga District in Manicaland and a response rate of 94% was yielded. The results indicate that the decision to introduce continuous assessment activities in secondary schools was noble, but it was negatively affected by a number of controllable factors. The findings of the study also showed that there was poor planning by the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education in the implementation of CALA, which has led to students’ outcry. The researchers recommended the involvement of teachers in the decision making process as they are the implementers of the initiative. The importance of teachers in the process should not be overlooked as they are the gatekeepers who play an important role in the success of this noble initiative.Keywords: Continuous Assessment, Teacher Motivation, Secondary Education, Primary Education
This review is centered on the corporate governance reform strategies for SOEs with a primary focus on Zimbabwean SOEs. The main objective of the review were to consider ways to enhance corporate governance practices by SOEs and corporate governance reform strategies adopted by SOEs. The authors also reviewed the literature on corporate governance of SOEs with the primary goal of identifying main strategies that may be used to reform SOEs that includes developing relevant corporate governance legislation. In fulfilling these objectives, authors used a qualitative literature analysis approach. The study reveals that corporate governance reform is necessary to rescue troubled SOEs who have been found under different situations of corporate governance malpractices. The authors recommended that in Zimbabwe there is a need for more SOEs corporate governance workshops. Researchers also laid out there is a need to carry out a further study on the effectiveness of corporate governance reform strategies being adopted by Zimbabwean SOEs that include the implementation of the PECG Act amongst other Acts of parliament that are meant to provide corporate governance of SOEs. Authors recommended that further studies on the corporate governance of SOEs would be most desirable as a way of addressing the pertinent problems currently bedevilling such SOEs in Zimbabwe.
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