The ministry of Education has announced that the school curriculum currently under review will be ready by March next year.
Minister of Education Dora Siliya says a team of experts will formulate the new syllabus once the review of the curriculum has been concluded.
She told journalist at a media briefing in Lusaka, Monday that the school curriculum is being reviewed to incorporate entrepreneurship and Information Communication Technology-ICT- skills.
Ms Siliya explained that government is of the view that school leavers should have entrepreneurship and ICT skills when they complete school.
The minister said this will enable school leavers become self employed because of survival skills they will have acquired at school.
And Ms Siliya said her ministry will play a critical role in the implementation of the Sixth National Development Plan -SNDP.
She said under the plan government intends to build more schools in the next five years.
The Sixth National Development Plan was officially launched by President Banda last week Friday.
[ ZNBC ]
Good thinking
NOW THIS THINKING IS OK. WE NEED TO PREPARE FOR THE NEXT DECADE
imwe guys how many school are being constructed during campaign time?can maths and physics be upgraded in the same new syllabuses…but all the same no good strategy is made money meant for schools will be misused again..such programmes are making these fatty cows fatter than b4………….
Dora has been a student before and apparently she’s acting like she saw what goes on.
Bravo, finally some change to that ridiculous curriculum, where will some one knowing the type of fish in Malawi take them ?
Great move Dora.We are proud of you!
Great development. This is what we need. This is real empowerment.
Dora should have also told the nation whether she will have bought schools computers by March next year. Very few government schools have computer labs.Vision without action is a day dream. There is nothing to be excited about.Believe it or not,this cannot be implemented because they are failing to fund schools.Text books are not there,what more computers and computer labs?
Visionary leadership that zambia and her future deserves. Hon. Siliya and your team of visionaries big kudo!
For the first time Dora you have talked sense. You see Zambians are not difficult to please; as long as you do sensible things, they will praise you. They are no long foolish; they know what they what and expect from a leader.
Kaya menso yanga ine yali bwanji, vamushe amaona. keep it up madam minister.
Long hours of tedious research by my fellow PHD students from our university is finally beginning to be recognised by the government. A brilliant dissertation by one former student by the name of Msango revealed that the current education system needed some alterations as some of it was not relevant.
i have always told you people, dora IS the man!…. sorry, woman!!! but haters have always tried to discredit her. for some reason, she evokes so much anger and hate among some whenever she appears. look at this scenario: a little while ago, a minister in luapula was complaining that the youth there have not availed themselves to the development funds released in that province and all this money is just lying around. i mean what to you expect from youth who have been taught about all the different types of fish in lake malawi like #4 katoz observes, or the names of all the capital cities in the world instead of skills in developing and writing proposals for project funding etc?
We need more of such campaign strategies.Hon.Lungu and Hon.Musokotwane did a good job in Zambia Daily Mail. So as MMD Western Province is still our fish pond for votes. The opposition has nothing to offer.Now Hon.Siliya will make us win country wide.
Zambians really are a mob, promise them a ‘nullity’ amounting to typical election year false promises even when oozing from low life scams like Dora, they row ‘good thinking, bravo and great!’ The gift of stu.p.id.ity god has endowed most Zambians with seems to be coupled with extreme blindness too. I mean, light travels faster than sound and this is why some people like Dora appear bright until you hear them speak. If you cannot deduce their kind even from their vocals, its either you are a ZAMBIAN or are middle aged when broadness of the mind & narrowness of the waist change places.
There is a saying that goes like ‘a man will never look a woman in the eyes, because breasts have no eyes’. You be most of the above postings are by men and only number 7 is a woman. I know for a fact Dora is an embacile but hardly did I realise there are always many more imbecile than you counted on.
kwena ba Dora mulsuba powder machita over
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FUNNY HOW TIME FLIES SO THIS THE DORA SILIYA WHO USED TO READ NEWS ON POOR ZNBC AND NOW SHE IS IN CHARGE OF EDUCATION IN ZED,IYE IMWE SHUWAAAAAAAAA
Mental illness in zambia has now reached medically significant levels. New curriculum blah blah blah ICT blah blah blah What ICT? which schools? How many primary schools in zambia have internet connection? ICT is not just about having some second hand pc in a dusty corner!!! It is more than that!!!How many homes have or can afford broadband connection? Even afford it!!! Just yesterday, there was a rumour of a new university in rural zambia where secondary school pupils have even never seen a computer…. These are signs of serious mental illness!!!Watch these ministers and please start stocking up the necessary medication!!!!!
No.18 spot on. Dora’s cheap political statement has excited those who do not know what it takes to have ITC in our schools. Even Millenium Goal no.2 about Universal Primary Education will NEVER be archieved by 2015 in Zambia. dora is just a joker seeking votes.
# 19 Academic Worrior,
You calling the know as ignorant, what is the animal you are calling ITC in our schools? Yes we would implement your ITC in our schools but surely our ICT is on course.
Quality of educationin zambia is pathetic. She is just telling lies.
On technical point of view I find it hard and stu.p.i.ty for Dora to tell the nation that the curriculum has been revised. How many teachers from secondary, basic and primary schools have access to a computer or use it? Who or which company in Zambia will engage school leavers in interpreurship when most of the industries are non operational or are destroyed. How many teachers has the govt trained in this area to impelement this change. The answer is none. Sometimes it worth to give it a thorough thought and the out come is Ru.bb.i.sh from this former street pro.sti.tu.te. Zambia twasebana.No purpose, no plans. It is auditory and visual Hallucinations and diarrhoea of the brain during elections times.Watch out their mental relapse and recently RB couldnt know where he was when in Kasama
Ya I agree with some of the sensible comments above. While the idea might be okey, it is ill timed coz most if not all the govt schools lack the facilities and manpower to support this curricula. its election year for sure – no vision, no plans, as long as it ‘sounds’ gud in the ears of the cadres. for zambia to develop, it would need visionary (not election or poverty motivated), innovative leaders, otherwise as it is, poverty and unemployment will always be the order of the day, the not so gud politicians will alwys be getting richer as the poor becomes poorer!
I think sometimes when the govt tries to do something positive like this we should support them! For once I have seen the govt take an important step because entrepreneurship and ICT are necessary skills these kids need when they complete school. Lets take this a step at a time and I am very certain that we have a lot of well wishers who are willing to support this stance. And i hope the govt follows through with this and its not just another donor who has insisted for this change because they are supporting us with finances. I have been to a lot of public schools and most of them can open up an antique bookshop because the of the amounts of books they are not using because of these changes in curriculum!
you shall never impress me dora
we put a computer lab at Chiilenje South High school,but the biggest challenge is that the teachers are not trained in computers and some kids appeared to know more than teachers. Good idea to change the curriculum but you should have started by changing the teachers’ one years back,,,,,,,and remember one thing, Abott 4th edition must stay,it never gets out of date!!!!
I personally support the current Education Minister for her work. She is not my favourite but i have seen her work, and that is reason enough for me to commend her. She is brainy, has the charisma as well as the passion for what she does. She may not be right entirely but she has set up a legacy upon which other people could start from.