In a statement Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) president Takavafira Zhou criticised the online platform eMap system calling it a dysfunctional technology.
Government introduced the eMap system which is an online application system for Form One places. Zhou said schools are failing to use the system and are not accepting the manual method. He also said the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education is failing to use the system it adopted. Said Zhou:
Schools are failing to use the system to enrol students, a week after Grade seven results are out. Not even a single secondary school has managed to use the online applications to enrol. The schools are neither accepting the alternative manual method as they religiously wait for a directive from the ministry but sadly, nothing is coming from the ministry that in itself looks to be running out of ideas. Several parents are using their hard earned money to visit where schools they would have applied to only to be informed that the same schools were facing challenges in processing applications; why has the ministry adopted a system it cannot use. Several parents have been inconvenienced while uncertainty and anxiety has cropped into many candidates who cannot secure Form One places because of a dysfunctional technology that further points to incompetence and lackadaisical approach by the ministry.
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