The Ministry of Education has this year upgraded 14 basic schools into day secondary schools in Lundazi district in an effort to provide quality education nearer to learners.
Lundazi District Education Board Secretary (DEBS) Chiza Mtonga said government’s desire to provide education in all the community has to be achieved by upgrading more primary schools to secondary level.
Mr. Mtonga said it was the Patriotic Front’s (PF) manifesto to upgrade more primary schools to secondary level in the district and to reduce congestion in few township day secondary schools.
He added that the upgrading of schools into day secondary schools was also meant to reduce distances which pupils have to cover to access education at the nearest learning institutions.
On staffing levels in schools, Mr. Mtonga said Lundazi has enough trained teachers to handle the fourteen upgraded secondary schools.
He said currently, township schools are over-staffed hence teachers will be redistributed to rural parts of the district so as to reduce the teacher/pupil ratio and to be promoted.
Mr. Mtonga named some of the upgraded schools as Tigone, Msuzi, Nyangwe, Kapichila, Mphamba and Mkomba in Lundazi Central constituency.
Others are Mwasemphangwe, Chaomba, Luamphamba and Chanyalubwe in Lumezi constituency while in Chasefu constituency, the upgrade schools are Kakoma, Egichiken, Nkhanga and Lupamadzi schools.
He said Lundazi district now has a total of 28 secondary schools, three of which are boarding.
Creating new Districts sitilesa manje kakiliatedwe, ku chita upgrade ma schools sitilesa manje ka apugiledwe, some of these schools have no capacity to maintain higher secondary school status. Do these upgraded schools have the necessary lab equipment and biological apparatus for practicals, or is it going to be the new phenomenon of theoretical studies through out.
This is a govt of disorganization and shambles..upgrading basic schools to secondary school whilst some existing secondary schools are closing down due to appalling health and safety conditions
MR JAY JAY, I PERSONALLY UPLOAD YOU BECAUSE OF YOUR BALANCE OF ARGUMENTS WHETHER, GOVERNMENT OR OPPOSITION ORIENTED ARTICLE,PLEASE KEEP IT UP.