The Teaching Council of Zambia (TCZ) is in the process of closing down thirty-five Colleges of Education that were found to be operating illegally, as they abrogated the Teaching Profession Act (No. 5 of 2013) that requires that all colleges of education must be registered with the Teaching Council of Zambia.
The Council commenced country-wide compliance inspections in March this year (2018), and shall be spread to all the remaining colleges public and private colleges of education in all the ten provinces.
The Compliance Inspections team has so far visited seventeen (17) districts countrywide in five provinces.
The following are the statistics of the illegal colleges of education for each province visited; Copperbelt (17), Southern (7), Central (3), Lusaka (5) and North-Western (3).
The full list of the said illegally operating colleges of education that will be closed down by the Teaching Council of Zambia for non-adherence to the Teaching Profession Act shall soon be published in the daily tabloids.
We also wish to advise Parents, Students and Members of the public that to look out for the full list of accredited colleges of education in the daily tabloids and our official website ( www.tcz.ac.zm ).
Additionally, the Teaching Council of Zambia would love to remind school authorities and Student teachers that it remains a requirement for all enrolled students in any College of Education to be registered with the Council by paying one hundred Kwacha fifty Ngwee (K100.50.)
Therefore, no student is supposed to undertake teaching practice without the authority letter from the Council or the Student Teaching Experience Authority (STEA).
The Teaching Council of Zambia values the support we keep receiving from teachers, student teachers and other stakeholders in an effort to fully operationalize the Council and bring sanity to the Teaching profession.
This should have been done from before the Kaunda days.
LT fix the website, or just close it like those junk colleges.
They might as well be closed forever. Too many teacher colleges could be consistent signal of our dismal failure to industrialize
This is nonsense from the Teaching Council which only came into operation recently! The non compliance can be corrected so why close those colleges. Just give them time to regularise themselves.
The problem in Zambia is that stupid *****s like Simukanga only know how to destroy, ban or prosecute, etc instead of helping those colleges to grow and comply.
After all there will be no need of The Fcking Teaching Council without those colleges. Simukanga has taken his foolishness from UNZA to the Teaching Council.
Are the principles of colleges engaged on this matter? I have asked coz the students on teaching practice are blunk on the issue of authority letter. And who are the STEA? Let us senstize people thoroughly first before we threaten. Your also in the media help the nation by balancing your reporting. When you got this item did you talk to the college owners or student on Teaching practice? They have paid but do not have either receipt or information on what next.
Why even inform students on teaching practice? This is what you want when you short cut your way to quality. You fail grade 12, but you find yourselves at colleges and universities and how you got there God knows. It pays to work hard academically. TCZ you are even wasting time you should have closed yesterday. And please do not back out or down because you also are fools and cowards. Bamiliahemo tomorrow you change the position ati they have paid. By the way is it registering with you or quality that you want to close these colleges? If it is registration or affiliation, then the difference is the same.
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The Teaching Council of Zambia should be commended for closing down these fake colleges. But I wonder why the Higher Education Authority can’t close down a large number of the 60 fake private universities that are ripping off gullible Zambians of their hard-earned money with fake degrees which are not even worth the paper they are written on!
Names please
AKUTI, parents, students and members of the general public to look out for full details on website.. (www.tcz.ac.zm)
I have checked from the website, but couldn’t find the so called full list of accredited institutions..
Can someone help me please..
Comment:am concerned about the teachers that are already in service and happen to have done their courses at the same colleges that are yet to be closed. what will happen to them because this means they have fake qualifications. tcz should also be considerate, they did not sensitize the society so why should the already in service teachers suffer. pliz give us full details on this process
Most of these shut down colleges offer education courses in association CBU AND UNZA. This is what happenes when a person is given a certificate to operate a university by the ministry of higher education before meeting the minimum standards requirements. But pliz before you send innocent students scrutinise them, those who meet the entry requirement , they need to be helped. The government can not enrol everyone. What we also need to understand is that the government is the main culprit in this matter. The procedure before any college or university is allowed to operate, is that someone needs to apply to the ministry of higher education for registration, then the ministry will sends inspectors to inspect if they meet minimum requirements for them to operate as colleges or university but…