By Brighton Ncube -My Bulawayo News Reporter

The government has set  maximum subjects to be written by Ordinary level students. The maximum number of subjects to be done has been set at 10 with 7 subjects being compulsary. The seven subjects include Mathematics, Indigenous languages English Language Agriculture, General science,, Heritage studies,Mass display and Physical education.

In a presentation titled ” Ground zero, Getting Traction” that Minister of primary and secondary education Dr Lazarus Dokora delivered in the launching of the new curriculum he said  students will be allowed to write 10 subjects and seven being compulsary. Other subjects that may be added as options include Geography, History,Computer Science, Physics , Chemistry , Biology, Additional Mathematics, Pure Mathematics. Other options are Accounting,Commercial studies, Commerce,Economics,

The minister went on to say the new curriculum is set to create jobs for the nation and also improve the economy ” we are encouraging school pupils to take ICT, sports, and arts serious and implement whatever they will learn into real life”- he said

The new curriculum came into live when the schools opened a few weeks back, this gave sent shivers down spines of  many private bogus colleges operating without proper documents. The public has been speculating about the implementation of the new curriculum.

Many bogus colleges continue to operate around the city of Bulawayo and milking parents and guardins money.Speaking to some of the parents around Bulawayo concerning the increaing number of bogus colleges , some expressed the neeed for the government and the ministry of primary and secondary education to intervene and close these private colleges operating within residential houses.

” we have a private colleges here in our surburb operating without licences and students are being abused and as parents we cannot do anything about it,” echoed one angry parent who asked to remain anonymously.