General Education Minister John Phiri says the ICT examinations that were written by grade nine pupils will not be part of the requirement for selection to grade 10.
Dr Phiri says the ministry will only grade pupils on the best six subjects that they have written.
And Dr Phiri says it is unfortunate that pupils were examined on computers until the next morning because of limited equipment and load shedding.
He said the ministry has resolved to let computer exams run for three days to allow pupils to write exams in a conducive environment.
Dr. Phiri however, maintained that computer studies remain a compulsory subject but will not be graded until the ministry shows direction.
The Minister disclosed that the ministry will award computers to 300 schools once the 2016 budget is approved as a way to improving the pupil’s access to computers.
He further said that the ministry wants to accord over 2000 teachers an in-house training service to build their capacity in computers.
Comment:Mmm.How safe are the pupils taking vocational career pathway? They will only have six subjects for grade ten while those pursuing academic pathway will have seven or eight subjects. Given the usual poor performance in Maths and Science many vocational career pathway pupils have already been eliminated. Is it fair?
Ba John do the honourable thing and apologise to the children who were tortured. And what is the compensation for the hours lost in studying the named subject? If it was in this part of the world, the government would have been sued for gloss negligence and incorpetence
But why the Computer Studies this year if u knew u would not include computer results? And why did u trouble the teachers and the pupils to write their exams at night when computers studies will not be added to the marks for Grade 10 selection.
ICT will count for as long as it will be one of the best six.
But honestly, what’s wrong with this government???? Everything seems to be on experimental basis! Damn!