Govt Considers Scrapping O' Level English Language As A Requirement For Nurse Training
12 months agoWed, 10 Apr 2024 12:07:41 GMT
The Ministry of Health and Child Care is considering the possibility of removing the Ordinary Level English Language requirement for nurse training intake, reported NewZimbabwe.com.
This comes after the government recently removed the prerequisite of passing O’ Level Mathematics for nurse training qualification.
In recent years, Zimbabweans pursuing the three-year Diploma in Registered General Nurse Training needed a minimum of five “O” Level subjects.
These subjects included English Language, Mathematics, a Science subject, and two additional subjects (excluding practical ones like Fashion and Fabrics, Metal Work, Graphic Art, Art, and Woodwork). The minimum grade required was a C or better, obtained from no more than two sittings.
Speaking at the post-cabinet briefing in Harare on Tuesday, the Minister of Health and Child Care Douglas Mombeshora said:
We are still looking at other issues like is passing English with a C is important because anyone who has passed all his subjects has been taught in English and if you go to Universities outside Zimbabwe, let’s say English for Communication and not pass English as if you want to go and do a degree in English.
So we will keep on reviewing and make sure that we make accessibility to training in various disciplines affordable and accessible to all citizens of Zimbabwe.
Mombeshora added that the Mathematics requirement unfairly kept a lot of people out of the nursing profession given that the subject has a very low pass rate. He said:
Maths is not a requirement in terms of training in the medical field, I’m a medical doctor the key subject for you to go into medicine is chemistry so we have retained science subjects as a key subject to go into nursing.
We are actually leaving a lot of people who have the capacity and capabilities out of the training because of Maths, you know very much that Maths has not been a subject that is passed well.
Applicants for the latest intake, whose deadline is 21 April are required to have “a minimum of 5 O’ Level subjects with passes in English Language and a science subject and three others (excluding practical subjects which are fashion and fabrics, metal work, graphic art, and woodwork) at Grade C or better obtained at not more than two sittings with full certificates as examination result slips are not accepted.
Aspiring nurses are likely to welcome this change, considering that English Language and Mathematics are widely regarded as challenging subjects at the O’ Level.
More: Pindula News
Tags
75 Comments
mtangadura · 12 months ago
Kushaya fundo uku kuchembera chonyakare imi muchiti technology aaa hapana kwatoenda nhamo urombo zvinokupai kurasika kufunga zvanhasi ko. 40years to come 🤓🤓😀🧖♂️saka zvakanzi dzoserai nyika payainge yakasun girirwa hupenzi aaiwa mazimba tiri marara chaiwo... Dial me to get advice on how to
mtangadura · 12 months ago
Kushaya fundo uku kuchembera chonyakare imi muchiti technology aaaa hapana kwatoenda nhamo urombo zvinokupai kurasika kufunga zvanhasi ko 40years to come 🤓😀🧖♂️saka zvakanzi dzoserai nyika payainge yakasun girirwa hupenzi aaiwa mazimba tiri marara chaiwo
Khan · 12 months ago
What hate am I allegedly spewing Mr/Mrs Anonymous?...We live in a polarized society where politics is everything so stop pretending otherwise this is not Utopia ka.....🤣🤣🤣🤣 I love how you have painted me as a hateful figure and yet in the same paragraph you wish for my demise haa please check yourself before you wreck yourself hanty🤣🤣...I commended the government for their gesture and rightly lambasted the detractors of said government
drink · 12 months ago
English ngaingoiswa cz amwe ma subject ainyorwa nebroken English vozongomaka havo vaona kt at least ane ka idea ska vakaibvisa manje tichanyorerwa macards nechishongrishi
PVC · 12 months ago
Where's Chibaby chezanu
Gire · 12 months ago
panotaurwa chokwadi haaise comment
Anonymous · 12 months ago
Whu is Khan so emotional and aggressive over an academic and developmental debate that is meant to benefit our children and country? Why do you rush to politicise things? Your contribution is full of hate. You are a bad citizen and the best place for you to be is the grave!
PVC · 12 months ago
Also looking forward to his comments
Anonymous · 12 months ago
Khan, why are you so aggressive over an academic debate that is meant to help our country and children? Why do you politicise simple developmental issues? You are a bad citizen!
Gwedu · 12 months ago
This will not go far, it's just politically motivated. English, Science and Maths remains key O'level subjects. Go apply without them and see if those with are left out while you are considered never. Any lucky that made you in will haunt you still modules thise science modules do require English and Maths too along side signs hamupabude apo ndimi mene muri ma**** acho chaiwo ikoko.🤣🤣. For now there is a short for nurse otherwise fews years down the line Maths and English will be back full time 🤣🤣
🧐 🤔 🤨 🙄 · 12 months ago
Munhu asina O level anotobika sadza rodyika richidyiwa ne mhuri dzese even Vane ma degrees havasvikipo chii chashamisira ne nursing, besides this is a recruitment process that's bores qualification after 3yrs akave mu low rating Acha manyiswa manyiswa be mamwe ma nurses, that's why they wear Jersey s to respect one another coz you won't know or see qualifications ranks
It's bhoo zvaitwa na minister to remove Vana from the streets
MM · 12 months ago
So its also good if they can put into consideration if the age limit
masigede · 12 months ago
zozo ndakaita jc pa z4 ,zvataidziidza nezvaakudziidziswa vana vedu zvatosiyana ,handitofunge kuti New Syllabus ichiriko,kupihwa mwana we form 4 akaita makala ariko mazuvano kugara naye pa desk ndogona kumuriga,coz jc yaive yakatooma kupfuura form 4
abhelo · 12 months ago
considering what what ingoitai makanyarara
zozo · 12 months ago
what is qualification in uk for one to be a nurse.coz in some countries d and e are passes but here in zim its a fail si you mean to say those ppple ma**** kareko kuita teacher or nurse zvaingoda jc vanhu vachirapwa vana vachipasa wani.
... · 12 months ago
which country considers d or e as a pass? dont lie
.... 🤷♂️ · 12 months ago
Ku UK certificate of attendance a red Cross red crescent session chete that's why there so many Polish, Nurses
... · 12 months ago
stop lying...you should know that a red cross nurse aide and a qualified nurse (RGN)are two different things.
🤪@3madododo · 12 months ago
Inga wataura kuti qualified nurse, its a stage wo pa career to get qualification
Zanu Chiororo · 12 months ago
kusvika A level ndichidzidziswa ngano kuShona zvobatsirei senyika kutoitawo A ndakanzi wakapenga kkkkkk. curriculum yema dhotila
Sorojena · 12 months ago
Kana usina Chingezi imboshandirwa uite murapi mporofita kana sangoma. Ndo pasingadiwi O Level.
Tina · 12 months ago
Tina it's not English which makes a good nurse, chinotimba was a good politician without education
masigede · 12 months ago
thou shall not kill,kana achida kuenda ne**** anongorova pasi wondisiya nechangu
masigede · 12 months ago
gona renyu vakapuseni harizopedza mhuri here,,coz kwaana sekuru tasvu naana sekuru kanengo tiri kuona magona achizobatwa apedza vanhu but munhu anee akaritora achinzi rakanaka,vana havazopera kunyengiwa here,zvokwadi unoengwa nemhuri pasi nekudenga,ini ndotengesa zviri smart zvisina kana muteuro ,igaroziva kuti mumwe musi zvinofamba mumwewo musi hazvifambi,,,,coz ukatora wako ukakurirwa ,zvinhu zvinoworera mumba,,,ini ndofamba najesu chete chero paborder
Mat South · 12 months ago
Where do l drop my PCN application in Mat South
masigede · 12 months ago
sorojena wandibaya nechirungu ,zvisinei kuti handina hangu kunzwa,ndirikudiwa ku nursing
masigede · 12 months ago
saka murikuona ma private xuls mazhinji arikudzidzisa vana chirungu kubva ku ecd chaiko,imi ndoopomoti thermometer ngaitariswe nemunhu asina chirungu,nhaka gore rino mumwe anomukira kumochari
masigede · 12 months ago
English inodiwa veduwee,makamboona here kuti prescription inonyorwa naana chiremba haiverengeki,vamwe vachabaiwa ma jekiseni e rabies ivo vaine flu
doookie · 12 months ago
Bvisai futi Maths kuteaching
matrix · 12 months ago
ayaaas 🤔
Gire · 12 months ago
makuda kutiurayisa manje vanoverenga sei ma prescription? izvi zvanyanya
Green bomber · 12 months ago
takudzoswa taimbova ghost workers, riksväg youth officers now takuuya kuzokunyudzai jekiseni
Ndini · 12 months ago
Chamusikuziwa ndechekuti magreen bomber haana brain ndozvimwechete nemasolder, ndokuri kuda kuiswa vanhu iwawo muchajungwa henyu kuda kunyatso tonga nyika nechitororo chekupedzisira vana vano**** makore ano.
Ndini · 12 months ago
Chamusikuziwa ndechekuti magreen bomber haana brain ndozvimwechete nemasolder, ndokuri kuda kuiswa vanhu iwawo muchajungwa henyu kuda kunyatso tonga nyika nechitororo chekupedzisira vana vano**** makore ano.
dakar · 12 months ago
yeah english its just a language like shona n ndebele saka haina kana basa
. · 12 months ago
English is more than Shona or Ndebele. You can hardly express yourself without throwing in a few English phrases in your vernacular
Sorojena · 12 months ago
English is a lingua franca and a cosmopolitan language, doing away with it smacks of isolating one self, how would you understand the physiology of diseases without English. I know our country is full of anglophobes but let's cool it on this one. Bob was anglophobe in his speech but deep inside him was English.
kamukono ketsambarafuta👉👌💧 · 12 months ago
Fifi kuita mkaka wakanaka kdaro bhoo hre tato****a nemanudes ako kuno
doug · 12 months ago
Are there people without O Level English and Mathematics who the top government leaders want to be enrolled into nursing? Just like the Bond and the Zig, are they trying to make nurses whose qualifications can only be recognised within our borders?
What was the reason, all the past years, for those who went for nurse training to have the English and the Mathematics?
Anonymous · 12 months ago
Maths, now English, what next? Nurses don't need to know Biology.
🧐 · 12 months ago
Kare nursing kwayipindwa ne ZJC
Ana English avo every passed science subject is taught better in English
Ndekupi kwawakanzwa chi Romeo and Juiet Chichi taurwa
Mukadota · 12 months ago
This is a disaster in the making.
patz · 12 months ago
Kana makuti mamwe ma subjects like English and Maths are irrelevant so it means the issue of 5 O levels should fall away chongopindwa nevane at least a science subject wacho.
Blot · 12 months ago
Thes going to massive disaster shame the data recorded by nurses is in numbers, eg mills in Injections, weight, calculation of BMI etc eish
chimuti · 12 months ago
ngatifambirei tione
ndini · 12 months ago
Nursing is for down syndrome dull people actually they should just ask for birth certificate
... · 12 months ago
shallow thinking. you embecille
Anonymous · 12 months ago
I respect people with Downs Syndrome.Why insult them it's not by their choice.You blessed . NDINI...one day you will need pple with Downs Syndrome.
Bhuru · 12 months ago
The government is now desperate bcoz health workers are going out for greener pastures, the next thing hospitals will be full of Nurse Aids without even a single subject at Ordinary Level
Anonymous · 12 months ago
Kurapa kurapa mudikani,nyangwe vakaenda hatimboshaye vanorapa muno munyika medu kana mazogara,tinotorapana chete nyangwe zvodii.Koo madzitateguru edu airarama sei kusina ma greener pastures iwawa aya anhasi?
Gire · 12 months ago
vanorapei ivo vasingagone kuverenga even zvavachadzidza hazvipinde nekuti agara Ari matofo. kuda kuurayisa vaifanira kupora chete uko
Anonymous · 12 months ago
Munhu wese akasikwa na Nyadenga anogona,hakuna chinonzi ****,munhu anodziidziswa basa nemunhu anoriziva,ogonzwisisa zvinoda kuitwa,ozoita ega zvobva zvaendeka zvakadaro nekusingaperi.
Gire · 12 months ago
iwe hausi tateguru ugorapwa ne**** uone kuti unorarama here
Anonymous · 12 months ago
Gire,unoreva kuti hausati wambotsvagirwa mushonga musango here iwewe muhupenyu hwako kumusha nechembere isina kuenda kuchikoro ukatopona pakurwadziwa?That is kana uine kumusha kwacho.
Gire · 12 months ago
munonyepa bhudhi,musati munhu wese akasikwa nanyadenga anogona muchaurayisa vanhu imi
Gire · 12 months ago
mushonga wemsango ndakatsvagirwa uye ndezvaMwari izvi ndezve Zanu zvekuda kuurayisa vanhu
Anonymous · 12 months ago
YA WAY YEKUDA KUPINZA HAMA DZAVO MADOFO KUNURSING.
omg · 12 months ago
kunozara kushazotoshaya pekumira wee
D · 12 months ago
positive thinking....🔥🔥🔥....keep the good work
Anonymous · 12 months ago
At least vaneshungu dzekuve ma nurses vange vasina ma subjects iwawa aya vanopinda. Vamwe ma nurses atoona ummmm,unotoshaya kuti aida basa racho here kana kuti kumanikidzira,saka kune vane passion variko kunze uku vachatopinda ikozvino vanemoyo wekuriita basa iri.
Anonymous · 12 months ago
ma books akanyorwa ne english and its not easy to pass nursing ,ma prescription acho anenge anechirungu and mathematics dziriko zvakare
mtt · 12 months ago
kuchazara vanhu vasinga zive kuti 5mls yyakadiini tavaa kuurawa manje
Anonymous · 12 months ago
Ndevedu vanopinda necard remuaangano saChamisa pa Poly pfee netsamba yeku province kuti aite basa. Iko kanogona basa remuaangano. Vadiki kopaiwo.Zanu isafe please.
Kudzai D · 12 months ago
Zvaitova nane kubvisa English mosiya maths coz other subjucts takapasa uye anga akanyorwa nechirungu ,,,Kufoira English it's a mistake yekugona kutadza kuziva all the rules.
