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Is Our Education System Of Quality Standard?
Dear Editor,
Education is key to the betterment of any nation. Though others may say its hard work and discipline, but you can never separate education from hard work and discipline. My concern is the mushrooming of colleges in our country. Almost every street of town center you find a college or university all of them advertising to be the best.
What are our regulating authorities doing about this? This has reduced competitiveness on the part of prospecting students. Most of these private colleges and universities do not admit students on merit as long as you have money. I know of one University in Kitwe where a Mehanical engineer teaches Electrical engineering, courses that he has never taught.
The requirements to teach in a university is a minimum of a Masters degree. What is so heart breaking is that after graduating from such universities and colleges, companies cant recognize such papers. In as much as we need a lot of universities, let them be competitive and prove that they are genuine.
Most of them partner with outside universities ( whose credibility in their countries of origin are questionable!). How can a university offer Master of engineering by distance learning?
Let there be regulations in our education sector!!
Concerned Citizen
Posted by Kunda
on September 29, 2013. Filed under LATEST NEWS.
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author
September 29, 2013 at 1:32 pm
Judging by the quality of your penmanship we are totally lost.
You fail to compose sentences and compound sentences where they should be broken.
Sorry, but you give an example of poor education by complaining so poorly about it.
Learn to write and read! Sha!!!
Kalulu
September 30, 2013 at 7:48 pm
Hola Mr/Mrs. Author, if you are so educated like you are boasting here, even from this what is under your eyes poorly complain, I guess you can get some sense and you can give your reasonable view not only talking like a fish in water. The ability to reason isn´t only based on good written text…arrogance has never brought improvment in life…
Zeze
September 29, 2013 at 1:33 pm
“kantemba colleges”
G
September 29, 2013 at 1:43 pm
How come people go to other places for these Degreesss
We need Universities than Ever Before.
It pains me to b out here studying whn I am suppose to get all this home.
“MORE GENUINE UNIVERSITIES PLEASE…….!!!
Raffian at Ease
September 29, 2013 at 2:45 pm
people decide to go outside to study for various reasons;
1. Our own universities are expensive
2. Frequent closures due to hungry monks
3. The courses are too much,32 courses for what?
4. Poor infrastructure.
Primary education is to broad and useless why..?
1. In grade 1 why should a 7 year old child learn 9 subjects,for what?
2. Some one wants to be a doctor(medical),is learning sds,history,r.e,civics,for what?
Overloading content which is irrerevant! Lastly re-introduce corporal punishment in school.
Kalulu
September 30, 2013 at 7:54 pm
you must be not very educated….or you haven´t travelled around the global…or you have no idea of education…get informed please…take a look in EU is normal for G1 to have 7-9subjects so why is it not good for a zambian G1 to have 9subjects? Aborad universities are more expensive than in Zambia, maybe for you who get scholarships it is cheap, but when you come aboard our tax-money is financing your stay…just say it clearly..you have poor infratructure and not well qualified teachers, lectures are universities and education isn´t inportant for most zambians
africa
September 29, 2013 at 2:58 pm
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September 29, 2013 at 3:38 pm
Pipo wat about cavendish medical university
Muntu Na Muntu
September 29, 2013 at 4:13 pm
Zambia has copper but how many universities/colleges in Zambia teach students how to turn copper ore into copper cathode? Zambia grows cotton, but how many universities/colleges teach their student with the objectives that at the end of the course students should be able to turn cotton into a fine suit? Zambians eat chicken but how colleges/universities teach the students to come up with formulae for chicken mash? To mention but a few. Zambia needs companies to be networked, but where can student learn networking? In 1980s Zambia had a lot of foreign students but why has the number dwindled?
ndanje kaks
September 29, 2013 at 7:25 pm
Mining is in 3 stages- 1) break the rock and bring it to surface and 2)turn it into concetrate, 3)smelt and make cathode. We know all these but we do not have the means
Swine in Heat
September 30, 2013 at 10:20 am
Lack of jobs has led un commited people to get whatever is available, including teaching. Without commitment, gonga teachers lead to substandard perfoormance and leakages. Now after so many years of sub std teachers, their un baked students have also become teachers and the cycle continues.
Kasenge Richard
September 30, 2013 at 12:04 pm
Education,amasambililo huuu!Wanderful you get a skill you are warm and dry.u think of lack of employment after complete,pliz create one by yourself is’nt it good?
Blessings Kafwanka
September 30, 2013 at 12:30 pm
All the Concerns you’ve raised are legitimate. Universities have to employ Lecturers that are qualified. The relevant authorities must ensure that these new colleges & universities abide by the set standards. However, we need to appreciate the role these institutions are playing. Most of them are offering professional programmes such as ABE, CIM ABMA, ACCA, CIMA etc. These are professional programmes that are very marketable & internationally recognized qualifications which do not require one to attend classes at universities or college.
During our time, going to UNZA or CBU was not easy even with good Grade 12 results. Today, these institutions have provided an opportunity for those that are not accepted at UNZA or CBU to pursue other professional programmes. We need to promote these institutions. We just need to make sure that they abide by the set standards.
Lecture
September 30, 2013 at 3:08 pm
Point of correction.
A Mechanical Engineer(Lecturer) can teach courses in Electrical Engineering,what matters is the courses involved. Some courses are similar even if the field of study is different. For example information systems may be a course found in the field of business studies and this can be ably handled by someone who has mastered computer science or information Technology.