Government says it will soon reform the education system in order to make teaching and learning more responsive to overlapping demands.
Minister of General Education David Mabumba says government has embarked on five pillars of reforms in a bid to transform and reposition key components of Zambia’s education system.
Mr. Mabumba said the reforms focus on teacher recruitment and career progression, school furniture, text book development, school infrastructure as well as examinations.
Speaking in Kalabo Secondary School hall when he addressed teachers from across Kalabo district, today, Mr. Mabumba said government was upgrading 115 primary schools countrywide into secondary schools as part of the reforms.
Mr. Mabumba said there was need to decentralize teacher recruitment saying local teachers would be willing to stay in their respective schools where they have been deployed.
He said the Minister of General Education would also introduce levels among the teaching fraternity in order to motivate teachers by promoting them.
Speaking earlier, Kalabo District Commissioner Fridah Luhila said lack of teaching materials and inadequate funding were compromising the quality of education standards.
And delivering a vote of thanks, Kalabo Secondary School teacher Masheke Sikota pledged teachers’ loyalty to implementing the five pillars as shall be reformed.
Mr. Sikota further urged teachers to exercise accountability in their discharge of public funds.
What are those pillars you keyboard journalists.
I’m also reading to see the details of the pillars only to find a shallow report that says nothing. Ebulipota ubu?
…. and who has been consulted?
This to me seems like someone wrote the entire plan whilst bored on the back of an envelop. Is it that simple?
The five pillars above will only make the education system efficient not reform it as the content remains the same colonial system we inherited. Reforming the education system means making Zambian kids able to use and work resources available in the country. eg the hardwood available, the metals, the gemstones, the water resources, etc
What about the misused donor funds for education? Will that be the sixth pillar?
Hope to see how these give pillars will help and change our learnings as well as motivate us teachers
#@Zambian Citizen raises critical points that should be shrouded in the pillars of reform.
I concur with improved teaching of how to work the wood (Mukula trees) etc. The country produces metals and minerals, therefore it only makes sense to teach our people how to process and improve finished products of such metals and minerals.
we have abundant arable land that can spur agriculture.. Please Honourable minister, consult extensively as opposed to issiung lacklustre statements..
We want real “action” not mere words.
We don’t need any pillars…
Comment: motivate teachers by building housing units as one of the pillars ,the way you ‘ve done in defence and police service.