SIXTY TWO percent of parents in Bulawayo have not paid their children’s school fees and levies for the First Term at Government schools amid concern that non-payment of fees is hindering the implementation of the new education curriculum.

In an interview, the acting Bulawayo Provincial Education Director Mrs Olicah Kaira said their records show that only 38 percent of parents paid school fees for last term for primary and secondary schools.

She said non-payment of fees was hindering the province in implementing the new curriculum which requires a lot of funding.

“We are implementing a new curriculum and we need a lot of financial resources, we need qualified teachers and teacher capacity development is part of the pillars of the new curriculum and without money we cannot even build new infrastructure. Infrastructural development is a pillar that contributes towards successful implementation of the curriculum,” she said.