Eish it's so bad especially to some of us who are not earning that much it's really bad

Too expensive

But fees not that bad. Some universities are extremely expensive. The government needs to assist paying for tertiary education. Especially areas of critical importance to avoid shortage for skilled professionals. Some of us come from poor backgrounds . My poor background must not determine my future despite my intellectual capacity. If I check Universities in SA are more expensive than Zim Universities. For example other SA university can charge more than R200k for just MBA.

Zim education is very expensive primary and secondary it's all about extra lessons now .Also buying your own textbook which are expensive and uniform at the same school. Parents don't any have choice anymore

these fees are set by people whose education was funded by government grants

Interesting article indeed. My take is that there is an Education Act in Zimbabwe. According to the Constitution of Zimbabwe the entry requirements into any University programme is 2 A'Level subjects. This literary translate to at least 2points from any 2A level subjects. Since there is huge competition from high schools where learners are doing 6 A'Level subjects instead of the usual 3subjects which we used to do,it has become increasingly difficult to take a two pointer when there are hundreds of them with 20points and above. Ofcourse University should consider the relevant three subjects when allocating University places on a fair scale to those who sat for 3subjects.Why today's kids are doing more than A'Level subjects is a story for another day. On the issue of fees, I would like to say institutions must not guess how much must be paid instead they must use what is called Unit Cost of Education, computation where they must add all costs (fixed & variable) incurred in training enrolled students per year and divide this figure by the total number of " full -time students in that year. Whatever figure comes out is the actual fees. Fees for training Scince & Engineering students should naturally be higher than for Arts & Social Science students. Unfortunately most Universities are now degree milling Universities, lecturers getting kick-backs from students for good marks, Engineering & Science students being taught on a WhatsApp group for 4years and handed a useless first class degree. Unfortunately this country Zimbabwe has a lot of uneducated Professors and Doctors,with due respect to those who carry these titles yet they have no clue how the button on their shirt is made or why all car tyres are black.... Student fees must be commensurate with quality of lecturers as well as quality of Education. In Europe and beyond Education is pricy because Science Labs & Engineering workshops are well equipped for real life training of students....there is value for money out there. I paid in excess of 60,000 GBP for a 4yr undergraduate degree in UK but it was worth it unlike a useless USD8000 worth similar degree for the same duration. The market value for the two graduates are certainly different when hired for the same job.The industrialization agenda in Zimbabwe requires us to re-think & re-calibrate the quality and quantity of our graduates towards attaining an upper middle class economy. Upper Class economies like Germany have 24000 Engineers per every 1Million people whereas Zimbabwe has 419 useful Engineers per 1Million people. I am for Heritage Education 5.0,Industry 4.0, NDS1 & Vision 2030 as they are Brilliant national blueprints, well-crafted but require living the dream by putting hands on the plough. Sorry for a long post.

then don't go to varsity . go to USA the fees go to bout 200k basic degree if finished that's like 4year then you complain. most of you wanted the whole india experience and pay bout2-3k for a visa and now you complain .aish ma zim wat do you want university to be cheap then go to zambia they got poor degree . kana zvanetsa do free online courses kwete kungo wawata

This outrageous discrimination in the institutions of higher learning is a blatant betrayal of the masses.This education is now only for the elites.Accessibility to education shld be improved. The very pple gazzeting these fees never paid a cent fr their degrees. It's quite unfortunate that we hv witnessed the continuation of these bottlenecks in a free Zim.

truly speaking education is expensive so civil servants cannot afford these fees

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higher education is now for the elite and for the general populace it's just a nightmare. maHorror