Over 30,600 out of a total of 50,200 pupils who sat for the grade 12 examinations last year have passed and obtained full school certificates.
This represents a decrease from 61.25 per cent of candidates who obtained full certificates in 2006 to 60.98 per cent in 2007.
Minister of Education Geoffrey Lungwangwa announced the grade 12 results at a press briefing in Lusaka today.
Professor Lungwangwa said out of the 21,613 girls who sat for the examination, 12,409 have obtained full certificates while 18,201 out of 28,587 boys, have obtained full certificates.
He said 9,886 boys and 8,831 girls only managed to obtain the General Certificate of Education (GCE), giving a total number of 18,717 candidates.
“These results show that 60.98 per cent of the candidates obtained full certificates in 2007, compared to 61.25 per cent in 2006. 37.28 per cent of the candidates obtained General Certificate of Education in 2007 compared to 36.75 per cent in 2006,” he said.
He told journalists that 873 pupils failed, representing a 1.74 per cent in 2007 as compared to the 1.98 per cent in 2006.
Professor Lungwangwa said out of the 51,518 who entered for the examination, 1,318 were absent, representing an increase of absenteeism from 2.44 per cent in 2006 to 2.56 per cent in 2007.
He said 17 schools countrywide recorded a 100 per cent pass rate in the 2007 examinations with Southern province having the best results at 73.3 per cent while the lowest pass rate was recorded in North-Western province at 33.5 per cent.
The minister added that 115 candidates were involved in examinations malpractices in 2007 compared to 25 candidates in 2006.
“The natures of malpractices were largely that of candidates smuggling of materials into the examination rooms. Schools were closely monitored during the whole examination period by Standards Officers at all levels and other interested key stakeholders in quality education delivery in the country,” he said.
Professor Lungwangwa has urged candidates to collect their statements of results from schools and examination centres, stressing that no results would be issued from the Ministry of Education Headquarters or the Examination Council of Zambia.
Meanwhile, the minister has said Nkrumah Teachers College in Kabwe and the Copperbelt Teachers College will be turned into university colleges to train High School teachers.
He said this is in order to increase High School teachers output for better performance of pupils.
Professor Lungwangwa also said that K90 billion has been allocated for the construction of 1,527 new classrooms across the country
He said 233 classrooms would be for new basic schools while 799 would be for additional classrooms in existing schools.
The number of failures at almost 20 000 is a clear reflection of falling standards in the education sector and the country as a whole and coupled with poor incentives and generally poor conditions that govt continues to give to our teachers.Even now negotiations are not yet concluded. As usual govt trying to buy time and also trying to corrupt union leaders for a low deal.This is worrying and something should be done urgently by the powers that be.What next now for such a bulk of failures-Engage in anti-social vices,and even cause more trouble to the already troubled country suffering from poverty,HIV/AIDS,TB and above all poor leadership from both the ruling and opposition.Shame!
It is painful to see that we are going backwards and government is offering no solutions.
How can it be acceptable to have so few 2007 candidates with full certificates?
Abana aba fikopo sana. Too much ukutamba 50cent pa channel O no kunwa sana fibotolo fya Nikolai. Nabaleponafye ifi fine
It’s so sad and the percentage is really so low!!do something and improve the standards…
That is a clear reflection on how many prositutes and criminals you are depositing to the streets.Dont cry foul when you are robbed the next time and when HIV increases.Why do we fail to deal with real root causers of our problems.What a government
am glad i pasd
Clearly, the results are the reflection of the underlying poor educational standards. Demotivated teachers, strikes, corruption in govt schools resulting in little or no teaching materials. If this country’s developmental vision is to be achieved, it must first start with school children, only they will be there to realise the vision. Minister of Education, you are the childrens voice to govt. The problem is that these chaps in govt take thier kids to good schools and this leaves the poor disadvantaged. I wish you all the best zambians.
This performance is poor and it is sad to see many boys and girls going into the streets.
Zambia needs a change of approach. Just annoucing the number of pupils that have failed is not enough we need to see the next step.The action plan to address the root cause of failure.
#3, as comical as you sound there is alot of truth in what you’ve said. These children will do anything to get high, drunk, or the latest scoop on their favourite rappers, film stars and the like, but will not do a thing to get the latest version of ‘introduction to biology’, ‘Abbot’ and the like. They know the system is hostile…strikes and no materials and all…but rather than find alternatives they head for the bar or just chilling. Unlike 10 years ago when council libraies were filed with studying G12 the few council libraries still operating around the country ar just filled by people studying professional courses such as ACCA. Our G12’s are not bothered at all! Who do we blame!
The Govt needs to improve on the teachers salaries , this job is very invoving. Ya ! after that put presure on the monitoring system. let it be stiff and regular. The childrens performance will improve like that i believe. Othewise, Teachers have lagged behind because of the meager conditions of service, thus they put more concentration on teaching extra lessons to earn some income and cover up for their shortfalls gained from the normal working schudules Via the normal Govt payrolls.
Go to youtube.com, click video, then search for “america the stupid” and see where we are heading to?
This is a clear indication of the poor performance of our nation in the education sector. It also shows how blink the future is for many young people in Zambia. If nothing is done to heal the situation our country will suffer badly in future. It is time to go back to the drawing board and see what has or is going wrong in our mother land, not just in education but in all we do.
And we have two universities? i can assure you some of these boys and girls will be learning at UNZA and CBU those who passed are going at cheap Collages or in the streets. These rich boys and girls drink then do not study. At the end of the day their parents bribe UNZA staffs and they are in. At the moment Education is a big problem in our country someone somewhere has to come up and say something to activate it. Otherwise it is static. I have No confidence with UNZA CBU HONE NIPA NRDC maybe Chinama collage is doing well i don’t know
This result is also an indication of the increase of playfulness in school boys and girls of today. There is a lot of beer drinking by kids nowadays. They also spend too much time on music and videos, having no intrest in school. This is something I have observed.
Those of you whose children possess play stations and other video games, be diligent in regulating the time they spend playing the video games.
Look at how some of us have struggled for places in Zambia with these rich fools not until we started looking for expensive places else where?
how sad that education standards worsen every year, which indicates who much needs to be done to address the sector.Worse, those who failed will add to number of streeting youths seeking for something for a living while the so called Lungwanga is busy making showcase proclamations.He mentioned the same figures on ZNBC program, but when it came to show the progress made so far, we were shown Mama Mukowa school, built in rememberance of the shameful death of Levy’s mother, and the UNZA hotel project which has been on slab level for months now.Lungwangwa is wasting our time, filling newspaper pages with rubish, he has no plan for education.
Ya i think we need to restructure the whole education system. we should ban some private schools and build more boarding schools in the bush like chipembi gals, st Canius, Malole, Njase, Chizongwe and Kasama. thes kids watch too much Chris Brown. T-Pain on Trace, talk of the Movies awa mwandi mwe.
And we r busy setting up mult-economic zones, do we think sec. sch. drop outs will perform in these zones? We will soon be importing skilled labour at great cost to the country when we hav always been exporting quality skilled manpower!
Nabo bana bamasiku yano, nchito nivigololo, so what can we do? These kids r not even afraid of adults nowadays. They dont study, they drink, smoke dagga etc. coupled with frustrated teachers, the result is extreme poison. A teacher drinking kachasu, u think he can produce results? ati masobela, our teachers used to drink mosi and we all went to UNZA! Imwe plz bapaseni ma salary aba banthu bana baphunzile!
And we r busy setting up mult-economic zones, do we think sec. sch. drop outs will perform in these zones? We will soon be importing skilled labour at great cost to the country. So what plans do we have to change things?
Nabo bana bamasiku yano, nchito nivigololo, so what can we do? These kids r not even afraid of adults nowadays. They dont study, they drink, smoke dagga etc. coupled with frustrated teachers, the result is extreme poison. A teacher drinking kachasu, u think he can produce results? ati masobela, our teachers used to drink mosi and we all went to UNZA! Imwe plz bapaseni ma salary aba banthu bana baphunzile!
you don’t need education to prosper on the zambian political scene? no need to worry about the grade twelve failures? they will simply join politics.
It is such a pity that so many of our Zambian youths will end up on the streets, jobless! Where is our Country heading? The future for this nation is good education. I think the government is to blame for all these failures in the education system. We can neither blame the teachers or the students. Teachers don’t get good salaries, pupils have no food to fill their stomachs, and there are no adults to advice because they are all died. It’s about time that this government invests in the education system for a better tomorrow!!!
wow am so surprised the grade results and i agree with what the other one said, that those with good results will go to cheap schools and those with bad results will go to UNZA and CBU.this is what happened to me i had to go to a cheap school cause denied a place at UNZA.the government needs to do something about the education in Zambia cause ,many young people will be in the streets. my fellow youth am encouraging you to be serious with your education,its the only key to success.why did they stop publishing the results?
it’s really sad.this is a clear warning that we must go back to the drawing board…do one or two things so as to improve the ever deteriorating education curriculum in zambia.let’s not waste time blaming others…genuine and positive change can be achieved if only we work with the slogan ‘one zambia,one nation’.the bullet of the enemy knows no ally,our survival lies in unity.be part of the positive world changers.bon voyage
8. Anonymous i agree with yo because as for me i used to spend most of the money meant for lunch and transport to school just to buy a text book or photocopy one but these kids dont know nothing about that except drinking and always talking excee and your languages to each other thinking their i the states….what a deteriorating education system in Zambian and i also agree with some of youth people advocating a change in our education system…..whay didnt the minister also list the number of peoples who got pregnant the so called bana mudamager syndrome in zambia high time we start see those figures
when we dont succeed we run the risk of failure………the percentage of failures was too much
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I dnt agree wth th grade 12 reslts en thy wr vry poor ths NCS thng s frckn me up Naledi d ur thng man bttr thn wht u dd. :o:o:([-(
Rupiah’s regime is supprising.just because bena lungwagwa is a proffersor they thinck he can manage da education sector as far as i know since da so called lungwagwa became da education minister schools have perfformed poorly.in grade 9,12 results which shows that change we need in da education sector.letr try other pipo so that mulpractises during da exames can also be minimised.& to 2009 sugos don not deepend on leakges palast mukalila/muzalila 2 those who pased conglatulations & to those who failed gud luk next time never giveup.
i am disappointed in the last years results for grade 12, the number of those who failed is just too much, every year it is increasing which show that our education stranded is very low.
improvement is needed, the government must do something.
thanks
Dino Yamz
The government is busy looting public resources,Zambian children are busy drinking,the education system is slowly losing its value,employment doesn’t even exist,Poor people are becoming poorer,thieve are being transfered from one ministry to the other leaving their footprint wherever they go.on Health Satan may help me to explain the scandals.Sometime i thought being born in Zambia was part of gods punishment on humanity but my thoughts pointed out to the government and it’s smart thieves.Zambia has truly become a thieves Paradise. Tears easy oozy from my eyes when i look at the number of students who failed and those who passed but thier parents can’t manage to pay for University fees!!!!!!!!!!!
what are the syllabus for history
Results ar very bad,pathetic indeed.our edu standad z very low,u thieves can u do what u ar supose to do
i think pupils need more practcles in order for them to do better in the science department..2013 viva
I WANT TO SEE MY GRADE 12 RESULTS FOR 2007
MY SCHOOL WAS KANSENSHI HIGH SCHOOL, NDOLA
Its true, standard of education is going down chilabushiku. can some 1 do something pls? Bushe abana bandi pa Kasama Girls naba Pasa??? KAYAA. Muzo Dsm.
these are good results. atleast.