Government is in the process of recruiting 5,000 new teachers who will be deployed to various schools across the country to improve the pupil-teacher ratio especially in rural areas.
Education Minister Geoffrey Lungwangwa has also disclosed that his ministry is finalizing the process of transforming Kwame Nkhuruma and Copperbelt Secondary Teachers Colleges into university colleges to provide teachers the opportunity to upgrade their qualifications to degree level.
Professor Lungwangwa says Government will also construct 13 new high schools, 233 basic schools and 228 housing units for teachers countrywide by the end of this year.
The minister said this in a speech read on his behalf by his Deputy Clement Sinyinda at a dinner for the Basic Education Teachers’ Union of Zambia, BETUZ, in Lusaka Last night.
Professor Lungwangwa further said a total of 799 new classrooms will be constructed as part of the Ministry’s infrastructure operational plan for 2008.
He said government is also in the process of procuring 100 second-hand motor vehicles for head teachers in the country as an addition to the K3 billion allocated to all provinces last year for the same purpose.
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Good move but they better have enough budget for the new teachers.
Right way to go and hon minister can you construct a proper university for each province as well?You’ve been really slow in that area…
I agree wit #2 ALL THE WAY! we need: University of Lunaysha,University of Chipata:University of Solwezi ETC… Sounds Funny but true we nid em
HELP! if light travels in a straight line how about darkness?
we know light sources as the sun, moon, fire, electricity etc, what are the sources of darkness.
#4, Simple, The source of darkness is the ABSENCE of the sources of light………
Recruitment of teachers is a good initiative. We have alot of trained teachers who have become STREET ADULTS. Ensure their money (Budget) is ready before the exercise….
No 2 and 3 suggestions are not right at all. We should commend the government very much for taking this step to recruit that many of teachers but, do you think its really economical and hence necessary to buid a university for each province??? What for ba Hola and the core??? Analyse issues intelligently…
Recruit them but are their conditions of service going to be worked on as well?is there accomadtion for them?we don’t need a sistuation where young ladies and guys who leave their fiancees in town end up getting married to village headmen or old women in the village sdue to lack of accomodation…ther should be morality still maintained and upheld!its a good thing to recruit but improving the services is another!look at that as well..
It’s a good move for our education system which is howewer long over due. So many of our graduate teachers have been loaming the sreets and it’s high time they made use of their diplomas. I tend to disagree with No. 2 and 3 coz it will be very uneconomical for the nation to have universities in all the provinces. Remember quality is always better than quantity. Thumbs up to our education minister!
# ZED CAPITAL you are bad news. you are an intellectual.
Numbers are a good start but unfold a plan that will create quality teachers as well. People have sacrificed for too long.
These guys are liars. Read this – Lungwangwa said “Government will also construct 13 new high schools, 233 basic schools and 228 housing units for teachers countrywide by the end of this year”. This guy is a liar. There is only 4 months remaining before this year finishes. So how is he going to manage building all these infrastructure in 4 months. Please lets be serious with what we say. Don’t just say for the sake of impressing the audience or to appear on TV or in newspaper. You should talk real things.
#12. These projects have already got underway. If someone uses a future tense it doesnt mean that they have not yet started. Am aware that 85 percent of these projects have already passed the tendering phase and contrators have already moved on site. Do not think with your ugly mouth but with your polluted brain.
Zambia is priveldged to have Angola as its neighbour.Zambia needs Angola for oil and access to the Atlantic,we should start moving away from the Tanzama pipeline and try to come up with (Zambia Angola)ZA pipeline.This will save us from the transporttion,storage and insurance costs but offcourse the main challedge will be how the savings will be used.Many Angolans lived in zambia n its time to tranform our political relations into econonic relations
#13. You so stupid and I don’t know if you have ever been to school. How can you tell from that statement that work has already started. Its like saying “I will get married by the end of this year” and because you are a full, you can intepret it that I am already married. Maybe you are one of them. You should think before putting your stupid idea on this blog. The fact is that work has not started. Its just politics. Can you tell me in which areas these infrastructure is being built?
Mr zambia. With due respect i decline to feud with you. Keep the insults to that runway you mop everyday for your livelihood. The problem with mongoloids like you is that you analyse these issues from?that runway you call your office. You should try and ask your relatives about the positive happenings in the country before vomitting your rubbish. Iam a government worker and am speaking with knowledge of the subject.
#16. Mind you not all people outside the country mop streets. I don’t care whether you are government worker or not. I am also a government worker and I am always in touch with what is going on there. The fact is that the minister did not say we have already started building the schools. He is a leanered minister and he knows his english. So the fact remains the same, he can’t build what he has mentioned in 4 months. You have even failed to tell me where these structures are being built you full.
Iwe zambian in sinjembela,You see, i have always reminded you that whatever you are doing wherever you are, you are more a liability than an asset.
Ba anonymous I respect you very much. Now this conman he thinks I don’t know how to read. Maybe you understand better this statement “Lungwangwa said “Government will also construct 13 new high schools, 233 basic schools and 228 housing units for teachers countrywide by the end of this year”. Does it say the government has already started building schools?
Unless you eat with lungwangwa, then you will know that they have already started building. Not an ordinary person like me who just rely on the news.
OK now i understand.
Maybe this statement also means that the 100 second-hand motor vehicles for head teachers are already procured.
“He said government is also in the process of procuring 100 second-hand motor vehicles for head teachers in the country as an addition to the K3 billion allocated to all provinces last year for the same purpose”.
Ba zambia. Am sure your head is so clogged that whatever we are going to say will not sink. Anyway keep on moping the streets. You are a represenative of modern day slavery. While the country you left behind is busy devloping You are still in the gregorian age thinking that those streets you are moping have now given you the right to analyse things you dont understand. Foolish and embarassing zambian. You should even change your name to zambian slave in sydney.
Honestly am I the only person that is not opptimistic about this? How many times has ths government recruited new teachers and it ends the same way. teachers go on strike after not being paid. Its not making sense to keep recruiting when they dont even have money to pay them.
And honestly Zambia is not a huge country. It doesnt need a university for every province or not right now anyway. Maybe 2 more max
#13 conman u r right some of these projects have started,cos in lusaka west were my parents leave,two secondary schools are been constructed,i saw this with my own eyes when i was home in december,
#22 Conman. As I told you not all people outside the country mop streets. But whats wrong with mopping streets. If i told you who I am, you will even be surprised. The fact is the statement above does not mean what you are saying regardless of your insults.
You guys must be more serious. Anyone not agreeing with “Zambian in Sydney” must have their heads examined!!!
Hi people, let’s not ignore progressive interventions and ideas. 1.Education has received the largest chunk of the 2008 national budget (even more than that allocated to health). 2. Government has committed to build something like 1,500 class room blocks this year nationwide and is actively pursuing this (You’ll agree with me that investment in capex is by far better than that in subsidies such as the fertiliser support programme). 3. Student hostels are currently simultaneously being constructed at CBU, UNZA and NIPA (Again capex related). 4. Let’s just pray that the recruitment of the teachers is done correctly and in time. LET’S NOT CRITICISE THAT WHICH IS PROGRESSIVE
come out with better education system just as KK used to offer quality education which you CHI-PROFESSOR,LUWAWA has lamently failed to offer instead you offer yourselves hefty allowances.We used not to read all these figures of recruiting teachers.IT supposed to outomatic when teachers finish up training,they immediately get the teaching job.Now you Lungwagwa,very really frustrating,pls come on Zambians,we change this failed politicians to serious ones.
#27. I am a lecturer at UNZA and that issue of building student hostels started a long time by UNZASU. UNZASU started raising funds for building hostels and then other partners joined. Because the government did not want be seen as not being sensitive to such issues, thats when Mwanawasa pledged something. So don’t cheat yourself that is government fully funding that venture. If you are saying a big chank of 2008 budget went to education, why is UNZA closed??? People lets think. # 26 you are man. Keep it up.
#28 you are very correct.
so pesimistic.
I will just wait patiently for Conman and Lungwaga to announce on 1st January 2009 that 13 new high schools, 233 basic schools and 228 housing units for teachers countrywide have been completed in 2008.
# 32 …me too!!!!
I can only hope bo Lungwangwa means what he says, or rather the government means this. Education is very important and Zambia is now surpassed by other countries in this area.
It’s high time that all Zambians take ownership in the development of our country and not sit back and wait for miracles from Government and donor agencies!!!
Joe Jones has his head stuck in the clouds.We already have enough schools. the most progressive thing would be to try to maintain them and improve the terrible teaching standards. Instead of making more and more of those ugly school blocks. The government is always in the process of doing new things that are never completed
Luangwangwa..to hell with yo promises!
where is conman to challenge zambian in sydney? aah… conman….govt worker and zambian in sydney lecture, what a fight. all the same VIVA ZAMBIAN IN SYDNEY,
I am a Congolese guy and I find your debate interesting. By reading your comments, one can feel the anger, the frustration, the lack of trust, and hope. The government has the duty and obligation to deliver, to create wealth and an healthy environment for all its citizens. However, we should ask ourselves as individual citizens:” How can I contribute to the development of my country and my fellow citizens?” We have the same situation in DRC where people are waiting on the government to do everything for them.
God Bless Zambia! God bless Africa!
Discuss issues at hand. What this personal crap. This is problem, some people have a tendency of going off course. We have an opportunity on here to present ideas relevant to the subject and all you see party cadre mentality. Is it so difficult to discuss and debate a subject at hand, gee!!
Zambian politicians are nothing but dirty scum bags riding on the backs of the poor ignorant men and women who will believe lies in broad day light.If Zambia had leaders they should have built 9 universities one in each province with capacity to have 20,000 – 30,000 students.Long live dirty scum bags in parliament and the State House