Mahere Says Schools Must Teach About Insurance, Not Locusts

Fadzayi Mahere, a former Law lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) has said schools’ curricula must include insurance courses saying lessons on the anatomy of locusts are not helpful to most learners.

In a Twitter post seen by Pindula News, Mahere said insurance issues affect everyone, unlike locusts issues. She said:

When I say the duties of the insurer & the insured should be taught in school, monditi (you say) no, focus on the anatomy of the locust. We don’t all apply “head-thorax-abdomen” to real life but we all encounter insurance. Teach it. It’s not hard. Hatisikurwa (we’re not fighting).

Her remarks come as some Nyaradzo Group Insurance subscribers are expressing anger over the service provider’s policy saying it was robbing members of the public.

Meanwhile, the government is reviewing the current curriculum to find out the areas that need improvement starting in 2023.

The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education adopted the skills-based education curriculum in 2017 in order to produce learners with skills to solve problems rather than theorise issues.

But since the adoption of that curriculum, parents and guardians have complained about the implementation of continuous activity learning assessment (CALA).

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