OECD rates Zimbabwe Education among top three in Africa

Zimbabwe Education is rated among the top three in Africa according to the global ranking by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) latest edition of Global education published in September each year,

The Zimbabwe quality of education in secondary School is rated third in Africa. behind Tunisia and Kenya and it is ranked thirty nine in the world.

Zimbabwe Education in areas such as Math and Science is ranked seventy in the world and only comes behind Morocco and Benin who are ranked forty nine and fifty five respectively in Africa. Zimbabweans are rated among the top on the continent and around the global.. The Zimbabwe Education is acceptable in many part of the world and most zimbabweans are in executive position in South Africa and many part of the world.

The Education system has many levels.

Level Years Qualification

(1) Nursery School 2 years

(2) Primary Education 7 years Primary Certificate

(3) Junior Secondary School 2 years Secondary Certificate

(4) Zimsec (O,s) 2 Years O’ Level in 5 Subjects

(5) Zimsec (A,s 2 years A ‘ Level

(6) A Levels entry to University


The grounding for Zimbabwe Education makes it more comprehensive and most of the children have the basic education. This has helped Zimbabwe to have the highest literacy in Africa in comparison to other African countries in the continent.

This has been achieved by the present Government which took major changes in education system in the 1990s and embarked on improving the education system by setting up a Local Examination Board, and as a result of these improvements, Zimbabwe has continued to boasts the highest literacy rate in the Sub-Sahara Africa and most of the Zimbabweans are working in the Diaspora,

The contribution from Diaspora has helped to sustain members of families in Zimbabwe although this has a negative effect on brain drain. The wider picture is , Zimbabwe has also minimum benefited from its citizen who are currently working abroad who send money to Zimbabwe however it is arguable that if all the money exchanced reach Zimbabwe, The country would be able to sustain some of its programmes such a fuel shortage.

There is evidence that most of the money send to Zimbabwe from Diaspora never reach the country and as a result Zimbabwe is starved of foreign Currency while the money is banked in different accounts overseas.