President Rupiah Banda says it is necessary to develop a responsive and relevant education system that will produce industrious learners capable of meaningfully contributing to the development needs and aspirations of the country.
Mr. Banda said such a curriculum is also necessary for the country’s quest of achieving the status of a middle income and prosperous nation by 2030.
The President said this in a speech read on his behalf by Presidential Affairs Minister Ronald Mukuma during the official opening of the National Curriculum Review Symposium in Lusaka today.
Mr. Banda said the country aspires for sustainable wealth creation and employment generation hence the need for an integrated education curriculum.
He said there must be clear linkages and interconnections in curriculum design from early childhood learning to tertiary level.
The President has further called for a change in the education system and establish effective goals for which learners are educated for.
He added that it is also important to eliminate fragmentation and incoherence in the conceptualization of the country’s curriculum.
Mr. Banda has since urged participants at the symposium to ensure that the meeting serves as a building block for an enduring and holistic curriculum.
And speaking earlier, Education Minister Geoffrey Lungwangwa said government will remain committed establishing quality and equitable education at all levels.
Prof Lungwangwa said there is need to critically analyze the current education curriculum in order to achieve quality education.
He said government will also continue to embark on school infrastructure development, continued teacher training and recruitment in order to further enhance the quality of education in the country.
The three-day National Curriculum Review Symposium dubbed “Curriculum for Sustainable Development towards a Middle Income nation by 2030 and beyond” has attracted over one hundred stakeholders from various parts of the country.
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Yes and give them better conditions of Service
Ideas are there, the only problem is that lip work exceeds action!
Indaba again, this time in the name of Symposium. Anyhow, the President Rupiah Banda says it is necessary to develop a responsive and relevant education system that will produce industrious learners capable of meaningfully contributing to the development needs and aspirations of the country will only serve the country better if we go into research bases education where universities have to play a key role in working with industries. Sponsorship of projects through partnerships between univ. and companies can transform our country easily in both the education and industry sectors.
All the best MMD GRZ and do more of the work than talk too much.
Also, consider placing the education qualification clau se in the Constitution son.
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Its about time.There is no logic for children to have subjects such as North America Geography,history (europe) as compulsory and have subjects such as commerce as an option.Hope this is not the usual politicking!!
Gentlemen, I am listening to radio phenix and I am supprise to hear that they are putting robbots (traffic lights) along chilimbulu road at a cost of K450m per T-junction. Can robbots cost that much at a T-Junction??
At last he has started talking sense. We need to concentrate on what an individual can do not just being overloaded with useless subjects. Let those guys do good job.
#5 those are inflated prices. We need people who are good valuators not dreamers.It is looting when you are given an opportunity.
Education is the key,do something constructive
Positive moves. Keep the ball rolling.
Its true,some careers are not viable in a developing nation like ours.
Mr John Mwanakatwe (educationist and former Minister of Education) and Mr Ellias Chipimo (educationist) are still alive. I am sure ,a as senior citizens, they would offer very enlightened opinions on the RB proposed review of our education system.
Let us not change for the sake of change. What is really wrong? Is it the system or the failure by the political leadership to fund the system correctly? No amount of changing or reviewing the education system will help the nation without correct funding, period.
Its true,some some careers are not viable in a developing nation like ours.Thats why some educated guys end up being plunderers due to lack of things to contribute poor nations.
The term education is a very broad , however if there are people we ought to hold in high esteem among others are teachers. We are ,what we are purely on account of the dedication of our teachers,from nursery school to professional levels.
Good call Mr President. The educatin system in Zambia takes a while to be reviewed and adapted to the change that comes with time. Too much of old school ideas, bane. All we need is people who are result oreiented when they are asked to do something so whoever is goig to review the Zambian education system should be able to layout a plan that works, is achievable and will prepare our future leaders for the 21st century. Good call which needs immediate attention. Lets go Zambia
Well said your Excellency, its time we had a revised education system that will c reate desirability amonng the employers for zambian graduates. The current systems has enough irrelevants material that most graduates at all levels find useful. but more impotart, u need institutions to go with such initatives, UNZA is over whelmed worse off CBU can’t your excellence leave a leagacy behind by leaving a new university for the zambian????
Nowander terms such globalisation,protectionism ,recession dont have any meaning in our country because of poor standard of education.
# 10 not any disrespect intended or taking anything away from them but the time for theories of John Mwanakatwe and Chipimo are long gone. It’s time we forged ahead with fresh minds. They had there time and thats what produced the current systems. we now need to refine our system. Look at what fresh young minds like Dambisa are talking about thats what we need.
I must say this is a very positive lecture from the president. This is the right way to address one of the most important aspects of nation building – I personally look forward to a curriculum with an emphasis on African arts, heritage & cultutre rather than European history & world view, which most of us discarded as soon as we left school..
Good ideas hope they get implemented
#16 i totally agree with you. learning objectives have changed from 60s, the time of Manakatwe to today’s. The challenges we are facing today are surely beyond our old madala’s knowledge.
#16 Lundazi, I concur with you 100%. By the way what has happened to that organisation which was started by Martin Kalungu – Banda, Elias Mpondela and the likes?
Best education system in Zambia, was under KK.
Lucky to be one of the beneficiaries…
Nafuluka ba Cutey bandi ne mwine kale.Ba Stevens mulishani?
That is a good comment from the presido, but very isolated. People are waiting for you first to say, becasue of the mismanagement and stealing at MOH, all ministries will must be cleansed. Failure to do that really waters down everything you are saying
is there anyone in south africa who is able to listen to zambian radio stations???? if u r there plz help me i have tried everything…
The statement attributed to RB is very important. What is not clear ,is what level of education curricula is being reviewed. Is it primary? secondary? tertiary (colleges and universities) , private schools with links outside the country? Technical colleges i.e trade schools (though not under ministry of education) . At any rate such have been happening in various depts /schools at tertiary level.
Thus not any thing new, the out come may make meaningful reading..
I endorse and applaud this orientation Mr. President! This is why we say moving forward, Zambia deserves a core of leaders with basic education to server her. It takes an educated leadership with basic education to understand and see the agency of skill-based knowledge intertwined with an education tailored in line with development needs. We are a dynamic society on the move to greatness. Here you are your excellence seeing the need for universal education to realize sustainable developmental goals. Here Obama is calling on all mothers in America to go back to school and upgrade themselves. Education is power. Illiterates are preoccupied with frictional politics with Zero public value. Forward with the Nation!
fellow bloggers ,thinking through and thinking broadly ,what is RB saying in a nutshell translated simply?……
We need to figure out why our public education system is failing to ignite the learning process in some of the poorest students, … When it comes to education, people want silver bullets, they want magic tools, and technology sure looks like that magic bullet to a lot of people.
Prof/Dr/Mr/Ms Senior citizen #26 what is your synthesis of RB `s message ? Did he address the right issues ,in right direction ? Empowerment of the skilled trained against being exploited ? Local solutions to local problems?
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
The world is changing much faster than our education system. We need to take it up a notch.
25 and 27 wiseman-reborn greetings, the education President RB Banda is encampassing is all formal one from Primary to Tertiary levels. Just to speculate, I believe this is coming from Clive Chirwa (PhD, Uk; Prof. of Boston University, UK, not in any Zambian university) release PLANS for Zambia. Have you read them in the POST?
In short, the education model we as Zambians have been using since 1991 when Mr Chiluba FTJ (Hon. Doc., Malawi), whose education level could only be traced upto Grade 8/9 – if I remember correctly, with his help from Grade 6 school drop out PF Leader Undereducate MC Sata governed is not useful to Zambia’s develpoment.
Thus a new education model is needed soon. “One Zambia, One Nation“.
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What , we dearly need with regard to the subject ,is perhaps curriculum advisory council/board. With separate committees for nursary , primary, secondary , trades and colleges and universities .overseeing both private and public schools in the country.
Zambia needs an education system that is appropriate to both society and the individual – and it is wrong to pretend that watering down academic standards in pursuit of universal achievement will do that.
Quality education is the measure of strong and healthy communities.
When we have an education system that stacks up poorly in math and science then we have a fundamental problem.
#32 Maestro ,thanks . What ever model of education that we adopt for our country should firstly propel national development,secondly not experimental , thirdly well understood at every level,that is nursery, primary,secondary, trades, colleges and universities. Both private and public. Thus people encasement/ inclusive
37 wiseman-reborn I hear you and you are very right though the NURSERY SCHOOL DATA seems over ambitious.
It is trut that private schools need to be checked as to what they are doing. Most of any road corner nursery and other private schools in Zambia leaves much to be desired. While they do a great job in making small children become like parrots in the English Language, their curriculum at best is weak. This is why character like me who attended only public schools have serious advantage over people who learnt from private school, i.e., some characters who are blogging from developed countries after they failed to pass through UNZA.
One Zambia, One Nation.
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Just thinking post secondary education also includes Military academy, police academy , prisons academy ,how do we integrate and marry all this with the subject above?
YOU DONT NEED TO LEARN ABOUT ROCKETS TO BE CALLED LEARNED.ITS SO F**LISH TO FAIL TO SEE THAT EDUCATION TAKES DIFFERENT FORMS.WE HAVE INFORMAL AND FORMAL EDUACTION.SATA HAS HAD HIS INFORMAL TRAINING IN POLITICS AND ADMINISTRATION.HE HAS ACHIEVED MORE THAN YOUR FATHERS AND GRAND FATHERS,SO WHY FUSS ABOUT HIM,IF HE CAN HAVE ALMOST HALF OF THE COUNTRY CASTING VOTES ON HIM,WHO ARE YOU TO UNDERATE HIM?WE SHALL SEE WHERE ROCKETS WILL TAKE YOU,RESPECT THE ELDERS
cross roads…..
Zambia’s education system has gone down terribly.And now they have even removed the cut of point for grade 9.Going to grade 10 as long as 1 has a certificate cant just imagine that this is happening.This means that there will be no quality in grade 10,because even those who dont deserve to be there will find themselves in grade 10.And pupils will relax after all they know that even if they dont work hard,as long as they have a certificate then grade 10 place is assured.Thats no compttion,my foot.Besides the high schools are few.This mmd government has lamentably failed in all areas.
We see golfers go right up to the road or cross it to get golf balls .
If you got ’em by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow
B a Wiseman fimo fimo, welcome back… condolences still coming your way..
#22,Ba Chewe , ine ..ndifye bwino. and thanx a lot for remembering me every now and then.. tepakulekelesha iyooo, I appreciate..
Incitofye ile njipaya these days… I will soon be going for holidays…>>>trying to chase the sun.&…time for some champaigne cocktails again mweee! lol
Digital smoke I get your point loud and clear.
#Mrs Thenji Stevens , Thanks. all is well.
We claim to ascribe to the philosophy of universal education ,yet we not do it. We claim to have one Zambia one Nation yet ,we tear each other apart .where is the spirit of LOVE?
humility is the key to the spirit of love,a haughty spirit and a proud heart these two the Lord despises.
40 Digital Smoke greetings. I just got impreesed at the way you have sought my attention. Very sad. On your HE HAS ACHIEVED MORE THAN YOUR FATHERS AND GRAND FATHERS,SO WHY FUSS ABOUT HIM,IF HE CAN HAVE ALMOST HALF OF THE COUNTRY CASTING VOTES ON HIM,WHO ARE YOU TO UNDERATE HIM? Your being emotional is not going to take you anywhere.
By the way, what is the population of Zambia? I believe 11.8 million! Now, how many Zambians voted for the Undereducate? Approxiamately 800 thousand! What was the total number of registered voters in both 2006 and 2008 elections? About 3 million Zambians! Is 800 thousand almost half of 3 million voters?
Learn to appreciate reality and stop putting yourself on a pedastal for nothing baba.
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There is so much that pupils can learn before formally leaving school at grade 12 that can give them a means of livelihood. Everyone is doing I.T., computers what and what. You cannot eat I.T. It would be nice to teach basic skills for survival. There is plumbing, brick laying, electrical, home decorating and painting and so on which can be learned early. With so much house ownership in Zambia (thanks to FTJ) one can earn a comfortable living doing this. Agriculture science is another. We reared pigs and grew maize and beans at my secondary school. The curriculum should be practical and not elitist. It must be changed.
POLICE SORROUND NURSING SCH OWNED BY SATA’S WIFE DR. KASEBA AND THEIR NEPHEW KAPOKO.OVER K27B THEFT
Police officers Monday afternoon surrounded ESU nursing school situated in Lusaka’s Kalundu residential area. ESU is a newly established nursing school housed at a private house in Kalundu, Lusaka. According to the Auditor general’s report on whose strength the investigations are based, ESU Nursing School received over K7billion (USD1.2m) in 2008, on the pretext that it is training government nurses, mid-wives and clinical officers and the continuous training of health workers through workshops.
‘#51 Patriot , you are right ,til I am died I will always remember , THE woman called Dr kaseba. Vengeance is mine says the Lord/The good one above. There is always time for reckoning.
#52 to read til I am dead or til I have died…
I wait to see Sata’s case against MMD spokesman in the Courts of law. He has been caught with pants down trying to feed with both hands from the people. Only carnivals have the pride to rob people of their Medicare. This is an act of Genocide.He started by firing Doctors to create revenue for own pocket, then brought in the nephew Kapoko in HR to suck Ghost workers remunerations for many years. Finally, the chickens are roasting in the public eyes. Levy told Chiluba in his resignation that this Sata stinks of corruption. Daniel Kapapa and Sata politicized with lies that Levy insulted Bembas. Far from it.I’m a Bemba myself and i find Sata a callous thief i call to resign and allow clean hands to win people’s confidence. Emerging politicians must reject this kind of faceless impunity.
Maestro boyi, mube fye bwino nomba.Because we might belong to one political party soon.HH and Sata are currently having seriousy talks to make a strong force for 2011,by merging. So ba Maestro,beggin to love Sata just as i love HH.I dont care who takes presidence between the 2. What is important is to save the Zambia people from these mmd people who dont care.
55 Patriot greetings. I just like the Levy told Chiluba in his resignation that this Sata stinks of corruption. Daniel Kapapa and Sata politicized with lies that Levy insulted Bembas. Far from it.I’m a Bemba myself and i find Sata a callous thief i call to resign and allow clean hands to win people’s confidence. for I believe it represents the truth.
I respect Mr. Chiluba FTJ (Hon Doc, Malawi) for all he did for Zambia in 2001 by preventing the probably foreseen would-be collapse of Zambia completely. Zambia has surely been better under educated late former President LP Mwanawasa and now captained by President RB Banda.
I urge Zambians to check our politicians who now come in Angels form when they crippled us in the past.
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wasup maestro the kite scientist.below is a check list for you
1.SDA
2.Tonga
3.Evil
4.Jobless
5.Homeless
6.spermless
1. SDA
Seventh Day Adventism or SDA, is definitely a false religion. More specifically, it is a pseudo-christian cult. The religion and its followers revolve around the, “spirit of prophecy” present in a lady in the 19th century named Ellen G. White. This woman has, with the inspiration of the Devil no doubt, produced scores of statements and doctrines contrary to the Holy Scriptures. Among the most popular, “push” in this cult is for others to realize that all must keep the Sabbath (Saturday) holy or as the Lord’s Day. It tries to force people under a legal system that ended with the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. In the New Testament, one can clearly…
In the New Testament, one can clearly see that the early disciples met on a Sunday to show forth and celebrate the Lord’s Resurrection. So they held regular weekly, church meetings primarily on Sundays. The Jewish Law called for Jews to observe Saturday as its Sabbath. Technically, there is no mention of a Sabbath for the Christian although, it goes without saying that we must keep all days holy but especially the day in which we collectively worship God as a church body. In that sense of course we ought to keep that day holy unto the Lord. However, again there is no law that says we cannot do such and such physical activity on the Lord’s Day as the Jews were strictly and quite meticulously taught not to on their Sabbath Day observance.
56 Chewe the Virgin greetings. On your Maestro boyi, mube fye bwino nomba.Because we might belong to one political party soon. well it might just happen, but be advised that I do not belong to any political party.
As for HH and Sata are currently having seriousy talks to make a strong force for 2011,by merging, I have no problem with president HH or self-appointed leader Undereducate MC Sata working together for I don’t own any of the two. In fact, I have been suggesting this for I don’t how long now. My proposal is simple ans straight forward – the Underedcuate must disband PF and become a UPND cadre. Sata’s past image is too bad to be corrected and he MUST just support Clive Chirwa and other educated people for Pres.
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Worse and perhaps lesser known to many is the terribly blasphemous doctrines, Ellen G. White has taught to her followers.
She has told her followers and critics not to dare to question her teachings as she wrote in a letter Letter H-339, dated, December 26, 1904:
“Sister Hall has just read me your letter to her. I am glad that you are having success in selling my books; for thus you are giving to the world the light that God has given me. These books contain clear, straight, unalterable truth and they should certainly be appreciated. The instruction they contain is not of human production
The Seventh Day Adventists actually believe that Ellen G. White is a prophet like Samuel and Jeremiah and that her revelations are superior to those taught in New Testament Scripture!
There should be no doubt after reading these false doctrines and false prophecies as to the fact that she was indeed a false prophetess who founded a false religion followed by SDA’s adherents to this day.
Brother Chewe the Virgin. On your So ba Maestro,beggin to love Sata just as i love HH.I dont care who takes presidence between the 2, I love the Undereducate Sata MC just as I love myself and the good Lord God, my Creator. This is why I give him/PF constructive advice. As for president HH, I do not care whether he will ever be President of Zambia or not. All I like about him is that the UPND has been a very democratic party and they hold a great manifesto for Zambia. The earlier you will understand this message the better for you.
On “What is important is to save the Zambia people from these mmd people who dont care“, I believe that the current MMD under President RB Banda is far much better than the Chiluba/Sata one.
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2. Tonga
Tonga is an inferior tribe in zambia,located in the southern part of zambia. Traditional Tonga society, there is a well-developed cult of the “shades,” or muzimu. It is believed that at death each person leaves a shade or spirit, a muzimu. The muzimu commutes between the spirit world and the world of humans. Witchcraft and sorcery are also part of traditional beliefs.
Many Tonga have been converted to Christianity because of missionary work by Europeans. Missionaries demanded that the Tonga and other people give up traditional beliefs and practices such as polygamy (having more than one spouse), ancestor worship, and witchcraft. At first, there were only a few converts. In…
Brother Chewe the Virgin. Following my above “I believe that the current MMD under President RB Banda is far much better than the Chiluba/Sata one“, I would like you to check all Zambian livelihood issue of the period 1991 – 2001 and compare them to the 2001 – 2009 June 1st ones.
Ask yourself, how crippled the Zambian Kwacha? Who caused the brain-drain from Zambia especially the health workers? Who cause pain in families that had their bread winners lose jobs on useless grounds? Who is at the haert of this Herny Kapoko MOH problem of 27 Billion Kwacha being lost? Education problems?
My man Chewe, I love Zambia too much to place it in the hands of characters that failed me in the past and this drives my postings.
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At the time when Zambians were demanding independence from British rule, one of the most famous politicians in Zambia was Harry Nkumbula, a school teacher from Tongaland. Alongside Bemba-speaking leaders such as Simon Kapwepwe and Kenneth Kaunda, he opposed colonial rule. In time, Nkumbula lost the support of Kaunda and Kapwepwe. He was pushed aside in the new, independent Zambia. Naturally, the Tonga were not pleased. Nkumbula continued to draw support from his ethnic group. It became a political force against President Kaunda. Although the government of Kaunda did not punish the Tonga openly, few Tonga were invited to join in national politics.So maestro your hate has to do with your ancestors.
3.Evil..
first I take a commercial break I well be right back at you
Brother Chewe the Virgin, do you remember the issue of brown envelops in Chiluba MMD? Who was the aster mind of such?
Why do we have the nichekeleko problem in Zambia now? Where and when did it originate?
Look at the compositon of PF: PF Leader Sata, questionable character as indicated above, PF so-called vice president Guy Scott, what about his being fired over the maize scandle (see ZWD posting by Nkisu)?, PF Spokesperson Given Lubinda, Kanyama Constituency CDF funds in question right now, etc..
How now do you expect an SDA person who wants the best for all Zambians to support such a cohort – which clearly wants to reassemble and finish off the remains of Zambia should it be placed by mistaken in GRZ power?
THINK.
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If only we could practise what we preach! The degeneration of our education system is so terrible that we now even send children to universities in countries such as Botswana, Swaziland, Namibia and low grade South African institutions that were meant for Bantu education during the apartheid era.We have so many illiterate graduates these days with whom you cannot have a meaningful discussion. Government is to blame in part. I always argued that introducing another univeristy should not be synonimous with killing a technical college like ZIT. A totally new facility should have been put up. Now I hear the former President citizenship college is to become the Mulungushi university.Funny universities and colleges have sprung up and are being advertised in the same way as boom detergent paste
Evil spirits usually are passed on from generation to generation.You need deliverance from these muzimus .
Digital Smoke
Don’t start. Ok, you have already started so, don’t carry on. It’s not worth the while.
Wiseman reborn, welcome back. Kaseba-Sata is just a victim of bullying.
His intentions are impressive, but as every one else, i am worried with when/how this will be carried out, is it a suggestion or a plan that is as at now being carried out, also i do not think that world history and geography be done away with because it is part of education to be enlightend on things that we cannot see, others in the western nations have no idea about africa because it is not in their curriculum, we on the other hand are widely knowledgable and i have found, have an advantage. I believe, more vocational courses such as fine arts, ie dance music and art…and a revival of athletics!
Smoke dog ,Ghost dog respect EG white.
Awe kwena mulelwa guys for what????????????
Zambeziland has had good Education Reforms upon Reforms which never took root.
Being in the teaching fraternity for years, I have seen govt toss ideas upon ideas to appease donor of the time. Most of these are short sighted and foreign and did not ehnance local development. We still need Agric, Tech-D and Metal Work of the 70s Practical Subjects of the 80s, Crafts work in the 90s and Commercials in the recent past. if i may ask, do we really have to write O’Levels after 5 yrs at sec school or can we do it at 4 and do A levels for 2 years? This will help in easier attainment of degrees etc…Bridging courses …more Institutions of higher learning. We have plenty resource persons locally and abroad. RB, Lungwangwa do not just talk, act
77 CM greetings. Your “if i may ask, do we really have to write O’Levels after 5 yrs at sec school or can we do it at 4 and do A levels for 2 years? This will help in easier attainment of degrees etc…Bridging courses …more Institutions of higher learning. is well thought.
Zimbabwe has the system you have indicated by questioning and South Africa has some sort of A-Level called Matriculation at Grade 12. My impression is that our system works perfectly well for we have 1 to 1 and half A-level programmes after Grade 12 O-levels for those who can manage them. Good A-Level students are allowed to enter universities at 2nd year level at UNZA.
Whatever, the case, I believe your concern has to be looked at carefully.
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