A Head Teacher in Kasempa in North Western Province says it is unfortunate that in this era, rural schools have continued lagging behind in Information Communication Technology (ICTs).
Lufupa Basic School Head Teacher Melody Matafwali said schools in rural areas need to be moving at the same pace with those in urban areas where pupils take computers lessons.
Mrs. Matafwali said her school which is improving in education and infrastructure needs to have computers saying at the moment the institution relies on business centres for all work that requires typing.
She further said pupils at the school equally have no access to computers, a situation she described as unhealthy in this epoch where ICT was the talk of the day.
Mrs. Matafwali was speaking in an interview with ZANIS in Kasempa when Foreign Affairs Minister Kabinga Pande visited the school to inspect construction works there.
Mrs. Matafwali however said it was sad that despite the school facing hardships in modern technology, it is recording a good progression rate for girls.
She revealed that 29 girls made it to grade eight out of the 71 pupils who sat for grade seven examination saying 28 boys passed with the majority of those who flopped being boys.
Meanwhile, Kasempa District Education Standards Officer (DESO), Bessy Tembo says the district is working hard to ensure it attains the Millennium Development Goal-MDG on Gender Parity in schools by 2015.
Mrs. Tembo said Kasempa district despite being in a rural area has been recording an increase in the progression and entry rate for girls into school.
The DESO noted that girls have also been kept into school due to various sensitisation strategies by the district Education board.
She revealed that with combined efforts from parents and teachers, the district is confident that it will meet the MDG on gender parity.
It’s time some one tought of it. Bena Zambian! Seriously the Ministry of Education should start considering introducing computer lessons as part of the ciriculum.
I am doing IT “Networking” as a proffesion and having done my primary and high school without know using a computer really helped me focus on learning about IT.
I first used a computer when i as 18 years old, since then it has been a wild ride. There is to computer lessons that just knowing how to use a computer and that’s why i think it’s a good idea for computer lessons to be introduced.
Everything these days uses some sort in technology.