The Ministry of General Education has been losing 7,000 teachers annually due to various factors, the National Action for Quality Education in Zambia (NAQEZ) has said. NAQEZ executive director Aaron Chansa says data from the ministry’s 2016 educational statistical bulletin indicates that the country needs to engage a lot of teachers in public schools to […]
The Higher Education Authority (HEA) has directed the Copperbelt University (CBU) to continue running the Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery and Bachelor of Dental Surgery Learning Programmes at the Higher Education Institution (HEI) until further notice. As mandated by the Higher Education Act No. 4 of 2013 and Statutory Instrument No. 25 of […]
Government will not allow the Zambia Institute of Business and Industrial Practice (ZIBSIP) to re-open if management does not improve sanitary conditions at the institution, Minister of Higher Education Nkandu Luo has said. Professor Luo, who inspected sanitary conditions at the institution, was disappointed with the situation and urged management to improve sanitation. Currently, 35 […]
First Lady Esther Lungu has urged the girl-child to focus on education to rid Zambia of teenage pregnancies. Mrs Lungu, who is on a tour of Luapula Province, said the girl-child should be empowered with education to reduce poverty at household level. She said the fight against teenage pregnancies and child marriages has continued to […]
“I want to be like her. She is an inspiration to me as a girl-child in Nalolo,” says 16-year-old Chuma Sililo in reference to her dream of becoming a successful woman like Zambia’s first female Vice- President Inonge Wina. Chuma and Vice-President Wina have some things in common; they have both experienced life of a […]
Zambia’s ambassador to Germany His Excellency Anthony Mukwita has described the exchange program between Germany and Zambian secondary schools as an effective diplomatic initiative that brings closer the peoples of the two countries. Ambassador Mukwita made the remarks this week when pupils from St. Marks Boys and Macha Girls secondary schools of Choma along with […]
Minister of Higher Education Nkandu Luo is disappointed with lecturers at the University of Zambia (UNZA) and the Copperbelt University (CBU) for allegedly destroying the fabric of education in the country through work stoppages. Speaking during the Zambia Catholic University seventh graduation ceremony on Saturday, Professor Luo said lecturers at the two institutions have the […]
Twenty-two pupils at the Catholic-run St Mary’s Girls’ Secondary School in Lusaka have been suspended for allegedly smoking shisha, a tobacco that has become popular among youngsters. Shisha is a way of smoking tobacco, sometimes mixed with fruit or sugar molasses, through a bowl and hose or tube. The tube ends in a mouthpiece from […]
The Ministry of General Education will be recruiting teachers that graduated from recognized Government and Private Colleges and Universities to be deployed countrywide. ELIGIBILITY FOR DEGREE, DIPLOMA AND CERTIFICATE HOLDERS Applicants should be: 1. Zambians with Green National Registration Cards (NRC); 2. In possession of Full Grade Twelve (12) School Certificate with Five (5) […]
Government has so far located 11,800 university graduates out of 19,000 that have been targeted for this year to pay back loans government. Ministry of Higher Education public relations officer Chiselwa Kawanda said 11,876 student loans scheme beneficiaries have been traced through the National Pension Scheme Authority (NAPSA). Ms Kawanda said in an interview that […]