ZIMBABWE Detailed Findings 1. The Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council ( ZIMSEC) Category 1 - WEBSITE http://www.zimsec.co.zw/ n = 20 1. Does this website contain up to date information? Yes No Partial Additional Information • 2. Does the website contain: a) A description of its powers as well as data on the organizational structure, the functions, and the responsibilities of the administration? • b) A list of laws, acts etc. issued within the scope of its powers? • c) Reports, policies, programs? • d) Budget and expenditure? • e) Information about procurement procedures, signed contracts? • f) Vacancies and employment procedures? • g) The name, the address, the telephone number and the working hours of the respective institution? • h) The contact details of public officials? • i) A mechanism to request and receive a response to electronic messages and requests for information? • Total Score: 16/20 Category 2- Requests for Information The following questions were sent to Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (ZIMSEC): 1. What measures are you taking to reduce risk of exam leaking, which has become more of a perennial problem? 2. How many candidates registered for this year’s November seating? 3. When did you last update your website? 4. If a candidate is not happy about his or her results or suspects that he might have been given wrong results how does he or she launches his/her complaints with you? 5. Where can the public get information on examination statistics such as pass rates for the past years? Part 1: Requests for written information n = 20 Yes No 1. Is there an official designated to take and respond to information requests? (Please state title of officials in ‘Additional Information’) • 2. Did the institution reply within 21 days? (If less than 7 please state in ‘Additional Information’) • 3. Did the Institution respond to a request for information? • 5. Did the institution provide all of the information requested? (If partially please mark ‘No’, indicate in ‘Additional Information’ how much of the information requested was supplied) • 6. Did the institution provide written reasons for the refusal of information? (If information was not refused, please contact the institution to find out what the policy is in this regard –if the institution supplies written reasons for refusal mark ‘Yes’) • • 7. Did the institution disclose information about its operations, budgets, structure etc. 112 Public Relations Officer (PRO) • 4. Does the authority publish its procedures for dealing with information requests? 8. Did the authority provide information without questioning the aims and motivations of the applicant? Additional Information •