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The Ministry of Education website to enable parents to apply for their children’s Form 1 boarding places is down. According to infromation from various parents, the website has been down for the better part of the day today.
Parents with children looking to get into Form 1 boarding school have been left panicked and stranded after trying to access www.empa.co.zw and finding that the website will not load at all. The applications window opened yesterday and is closing tomorrow.
It is not clear yet why the website is down but it could be anything from the site itself being faulty technically, to it being overwhelmed by a huge number of parents accessing it at the same time.
The deadline for applications is tomorrow. With so much downtime today, the ministry may be force to extend the deadline for online applications.
Techzim wrote yesterday that the online school enrolment system that Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Education developed as a way of automating the application process for securing boarding places for Form 1.
The system, gather details of applicants and match them to available schools based on three choices, is now live. The Ministry has started shared the details of the system and how to use it yesterday in the newspapers.
Some parents have said however that they were able to make their applications easily on the website before it went down. Some were only able to get some applications in but not all 3 applications that parents need to make in case their first school choice is not successful.
Techzim has said parents contacted them frantically trying to establish the source of the problem, with most of them suspecting that it was their internet connections that were faulty.
Website problems aside, parents have also complained that there was not enough notice from the Ministry of Education on the workings of the new system.
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Seriously so whats the use of it? Parents are now stuck whats the way forward now?
Hello sir/madam l Jeffrey l an looking for a form one place. I am residing to hear from u. Thank you
What a bad system and the minister keeps quite when his system has failed
and what about my granny in muzarabani?
so whats next for us parents? since morning cant get thru
there is a problem with this website no response since morning apa wabva kumusha 100km away
ayahx zvakaoma ….sm changes are not necessary sua
tipeiwo maseriuos minister
hazvisi kushanda
yaaaaa.l thought kti maybe l was doing it incorrectly but no l was wrong .its not working .
manmatazz@gmail.com
its not working at all.sheer waste of my time.The old way of doing things was better in seeking places than this rushed system.
I have applied for two schools only but when I tried to seek and apply for the third school, the system says you are only allowed to three schools but I only applied for two which are showing pending on the website. Will I be able to apply for the third school of my choice
I couldnt apply using this system so mwana haachatoende kuboarding
Unotoshaya kuti technology yacho inenge yakasara soo zvichimbofamba sei? Pliz Minister do something honestly this is not working its causing us more problems actually. .. can u tell u zvekuita now we r stuck its been long tichitrier bt can’t get thru … todii nevana … this is too much do something solution yenyu ngaireache everyone
Hazvishande izvi, two days seve is offline.. Who is even hosting the website.. Zvinhu zvisina kurongeka soo, zvakaoma
The system was programmed poorly and should have introduced earlier to parents so that they get to understand it become the final.I think in future feasibility analysis should be conducted first but otherwise well done Minister and team Technology is the way to go
i applied to three schools. the one i put last accepted my application but i realized its very expensive i cant afford the fees. how do i cancel so that i get a chance elsewhere.
@bmuk pakaipa coz ikuramba kuita reapply again imagine. I tried the same
go to ministry of education 12th floor room 13
does anyone know how to recover password. I cant access results.
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This is not working. Ilanga lonke ngizama
COMMENTwe applied three schools and maregrets ega ega saka mwana hachaende kubording here.
how could you propose something you don’t already have at hand
My name is Nigel.l came out with 4units.I applied through the online method. It. has been ages since I applied but the reply l get is pending.
4 units? Supozd to be 5 if you got a 1 in the recently added subject (agriculture)
L am looking for a form one place.
wat a poor system iz this guyz