The Teaching Council of Zambia has warned that Teachers who shall be found wanting at the conclusion of the on-going investigations of examination malpractice risk being deregistered.
Council spokesperson Ngoza Malonga said those that will be found wanting will be in breach of the Code of Ethics for the Teaching Profession and the Teaching Profession Act No. 5 of 2013.
Ms. Malonga said the Teaching Council of Zambia greatly regrets the alleged involvement of some teachers in the leakage of examinations.
“Pursuant to regulation 9 (1), (2) and (3) of the Code of Ethics for the teaching profession; A teacher shall treat examination records and information at the teacher’s disposal confidentiality; A teacher shall not aid or abet a person in an examination malpractice and A teacher shall report to an appropriate authority, without delay, cases of examination malpractice that come to the teacher’s knowledge”, she explained.
Ms. Malonga added that furthermore, pursuant to section 46 (a), (b) (c), (d) and (e) of the Teaching Profession Act No. 5 of 2013, any involve would in examination malpractices constitutes professional misconduct.
She said it is clear that examination malpractice tends to confer undue advantage or underserved grade to the perpetrators of such vices.
Ms. Malonga empasised that the occurrence of examination malpractice at any level of education possess a great threat to the validity and authenticity of credentials.
She said the TCZ therefore, remains committed to bringing sanity to the profession with the focus to protect the interests of parents, society and the nation at large.
And as the examinations commence today, Ms. Malonga has reminded all teachers and school administrators to be alert at all times and to report any examination malpractice, failure to which it shall be tantamount to professional misconduct.
Good move.
Long overdue!
No wonder we cannot innovate or invent anything because the bright brains have been disadvantaged through leaked exam papers.
How many times will Zambians be told that 98% of the population has a certificate obtained through leaked exam papers?
Now that the truth has come out, that many people fikopo riding on shame, observe their English, most importantly they cannot even write in their local languages. Even thinking logically is a problem.
Now imagine Mwale or situmbeko the genious who couldn’t go through to university because of this unfair competition as a result of leaked papers they never got their hands on.
Trump was right…. sh!thole Africa
Throw them to the wolves in Namwala.
“Teachers who shall be found wanting at the conclusion of the on-going investigations of examination malpractice risk being deregistered.”
The questions is they are going to be found? OR Thats the end!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why only end at deregistering them? THEY SHOULD BE PROSECUTED AND POSSIBLY JAILED!! Exam malpractices are a crime, so issues should NOT just end like that!!
@ zambiaisours … as I said,
Thinking logically in Zambia is a problem.
1) A FORTY-FOUR –year-old peasant farmer of Sinda District has been sentenced to 18 years imprisonment with hardlabour by the Chipata High Court for stealing a chicken valued at K25.
2) The Ndola Magistrates Court yesterday convicted five former Cabinet Office accountants and slapped them a combined sentence of 31 years (6 years each for stealing billions) imprisonment for money laundering and misappropriating public funds amounting to over K2 billion.
3) A LUSAKA youth has been convicted and sentenced to a year imprisonment with hard labour for stealing two Bibles valued at K479 from Pick n Pay.
The list goes on and on…
@3.1 is that court case of a farmer being sentenced to 25 years for chicken theft really true?
Please investigate properly before you fire innocent people like you did with the minister when the DFID money was later found in a ZANACO account days later (supposedly). you lot cant be trusted with anything concrete.
THAT IS THE WAY TO GO.
THEY MUST BE PROSECUTED AND SENT TO JAIL.
THIS WILL BE A LESSON TO WOULD BE FUTURE OFFENDERS.
Can someone please define leakage for us to understand the whole issue. We have insisted on teachers being involved but at what level? When invilating? Because this is the time they come into contact with exam papers. Can we investigate this scandal at a higher level than innocent teachers. Am just trying to think beyond.
let’s introduce other examining boards and let these complete in terms of integrity
I would like to echo the sentiments of another article which states that g7 and g9exams should be banned altogether.
We need to do away with exams in favour of a continuous type of assessment. This will see to it that for example only those who can read will progress to grade 3 and only those who can demonstrate the required level of attainment required to be in a specific grade will progress to that next grade. Passing exams even when they are not leaked does not necessarily mean someone has understood the subject.
@ Vision 2020. Which body will be doing the continuous assessments without bias. Private schools pass all their students. Some teachers are teaching their won children or relatives. Who is going to authenticate the CA results. What is happening in the Region and how is Zambia going to compete regionally with that approach?
I am just trying to avoid being a Mwiinde here
I would like to register my displeasure on the current happenings with the Ministry of Education and Government in totality. Exam paper leakages are not only criminal but highly retrogressive to human, economic and national development. The Governments, previous/present’s inertia to eradicate the vice which is as old as the educational system of this country has rather incubated than abating it. This has enevitably and warmly given rise to debate podia of which mostly retrogressive than offering solutions to the scourge. I say so with reference to a person that said ‘the present government has failed the education system of this country’, Mother Zambia has since her birth been yearning for credible economists, teachers, doctors etc, but when the persons whom the children of Zambia are…
@ #8 – Davies Kapelembe
My friend the horses have bolted and the horse stable doors have been firmly shut. why do I saw so?
You are now appealing to individuals who are presiding over the affairs of the education system whom themselves are a product of leakages. I am trying to be an optimist but man! nothing will happen, look at them after being found out merely suspending the culprits instead of immediately being put in a fast track court and eventually incarcerated.
The whole nation if filled with such caliber and the Judiciary hasn’t been spared, just take the time to read through verdicts, it might just lighten up your day cause verdicts are ridiculous…
Welcome to Zambia, the land of the half baked in all corridors of political, social and economic power!
ENJOY!…
The biggest challenge we have now in the country is that this generation comprises of parents and teachers who passed through leakages. What do you expect the teacher/parent to be what he/she is was because of leakages and the same people hunt the leakages for their children and pupils.What a generation and Government!
Whoever leaked the exam papers whether teachers or printers or some other official (s) from ECZ should indeed be prosecuted because that was theft pure and simple making it a criminal offence.