Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education launches a programme to locate and re-enrol learners who are not in school. The initiative follows education data compiled through the ministry’s Education Management Information Systems (EMIS), which shows that 39,736 learners dropped out during 2025. The sources report that learners leave school for a range of hardships, and the government is now working to identify those out-of-school pupils and bring them back into classes.
The programme is presented as part of efforts to reduce dropout levels and address gaps in access to education. Both outlets describe the same figure from the EMIS report and the same broad approach: using available education management data to find children who have exited the education system and support their return to learning. The coverage does not specify the timeframe for the campaign, the geographic areas targeted, or the detailed measures that will be used for re-enrolment. However, it frames the re-enrolment effort as a direct response to the scale of the 2025 dropout numbers.
