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Measures to give girls equals access to education at all levels bearing fruits

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Government says the Ministry of Education’s plan of action aimed at ensuring that girls are given equal opportunities in accessing education at all levels in bearing fruits.

Lusaka Province Permanent Secretary Stephen Bwalya said currently the ratio between boys and girls in accessing education from Grade 1 to 12 in Lusaka Province has remained the same in the last five years.

Mr Bwalya said this today during a School Debate to commemorate this year’s International Women’s Day between Rhodes Park School and Kabulonga Girl High School under theme “Equal Rights, Equal Opportunities: Progress for All”.

He said the positive shift in accessing education has enabled girls and women to meaningfully participate and contribute to national development in various sectors of the economy.

Mr Bwalya has however noted that much need to be done to level the playing field in order to accord more women equal opportunities as the male counterparts.

The permanent secretary urged society particularly the youths to take a leading role in changing the perception of some people on girls and women if the campaign is to be successful.

And speaking at the same function, Kabulonga Girl High School Deputy Head teacher, John Shakafuswa said the commemoration underscores the progress that have been recorded since the historic Beijing Conference 15 years ago.

Mr Shakafuswa called on educationalists to fuse in women issues in the development of school curriculum as a way of appreciating the women’s role in all human endeavors.

Rhodes Park School scooped the first position and walked away with K 500,000 while Kabulonga Girl High School emerged as runners up and also walked away with K 250,000 as consolation prize.

The Debate is one of various activities that government has lined up aimed at sensitizing communities on contributions made by Women to Humanity throughout the ages.

On Monday, March 8, 2010, Zambia joins the rest of the International Community in commemorating the International Women’s Day under theme: “Equal Rights, Equal Opportunities, Progress for All”.

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2 COMMENTS

  1. This effort by government will not be enough if parents fail to take up the challenge of educating girls. At home girls are made to do a lot of work while the boys do hardly anything. This leaves less time for the girls to concentrate on studies. If I was a parent, I would spread the work equally among the children. Besides, the male children need this experience of housework when they leave the homes.

  2. Sham stories. How absurd to steal the word “Progress”, misuse it and tie it with education in Zambia! Decline for All, it should be. What investment has been made to upgrade ‘education’ from pre-independence status, while population has since almost doubled? How many secondary schools built? Tertiary education is a pipedream. Its virtually non-existent. And we are always told how that we were comparable to the likes of S Korea at our inception!
    No investment; no plans- and that is progress? The system of education has failed. The common psyche in Z does see no alarm at the lack of a proper education- its not what needs to make it- and we have many uneducated rich- with the attendant ills. It takes generations, with concerted resource input to realign toward progress…for

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