The Ministry of General Education is this year expected to make consultations with stakeholders on the relevance of the grade seven examination.
The consultation which await cabinet’s approval are meant to establish whether Grade seven learners may proceed to grade eight without being examined but assessed.
General Education Minister David Mabumba who is in Central Province to monitor the Zambia Education Enhanced Project (ZEEP) schools says the consultations are also meant to respond to one of the Ministry’s new reforms on examination.
Meanwhile, Mr. Mabumba disclosed that the introduction of the school-based assessment will help reduce examination malpractice in the country as it will help pupils get marks before the final examination.
Iyeee. This is smearing mud on drying clay. There’s a deficit of trust and integrity. No amount of loose measures will resolve that.
About time too.
Just make sure you build enough schools and pay teachers on time.
The country is becoming increasingly phony than normal.
Bwana Minister please don’t bring chimbuya to education. You know that while Chitimukulu got his Doctorate Mpezeni is still refusing to resit the Grade 7 that he failed in Ndola. His brother Ishindi laboured for his degree, Nzamane just enrolled in night school class at grade 9. These people with roots down south are a disgrace
What people?
What nonsense is this minister up to?
If his children are not ready for the exams, that is his problem and he should not unilaterally come up with lousy changes! Find the money and conduct exams the way it has been! Don’t dare disturb the minds of our children!
Broke govt making financial decisions
Well done bwana Minister. The G7 exams where designed as a tool to limit the number of learners going to secondary school. That shouldn’t be the picture more than 50 years after our independence. In more progressive countries like South Africa there is only one final exams in G12 not the colonial education system we inherited which was meant to keep us subjugated. School accessment based learning is way to go well done. South Africa which has no G7 or G9 exams has more professors than Zambia which claims to have the most learned population through a colonial primary and secondary school system. I know most people on here wont understand especially the some of us mentality with their lack of exposure. Well done very progressive and a sign of understanding why we need to decolonise…
You put forth an idea then you insult the readership on this forum. You’re an idi.ot.
Copying from SA is the new form of colonialism right? Well for me this ia not a decision you wake up to implement without a proper research.
First and forest what is wrong with the current education system marked with elementary exams? If no eminent problems have been identified then please leave things the way they are.
Job Well done Minister, i support this idea because even in Europe there is no G7 or G9 exams only assessments. Go ahead.
Good idea but rather wait for the next government to ponder the proposal properly and make a sensible decision. Kaponyas and cadres in PF will just mess it up, and leave long lasting damage to our educational system. Filekeni efyo mwa fisangile.
By next government, I dont mean UPND, get me clearly both parties cadres.
Build enough secondary schools to cater for all learners.
Where do such people (like the minister) come from? How can a minister of ed think that continuous assessment by unpaid serially absent teachers is better than exams? Do such people even know the sectors they head? Grade 12 school leavers are illiterate in the medium of instruction and use Nyanja instead. How can starting with mediocrity that early help? Is there no end to the ways in which to kill Zambia?
The whole idea about exams is for building character and sense of purpose at an early stage in our children! Removing exams will be disastrous in the sense that we’ll be producing half baked school leavers with nothing meaningful to add to their country! Removing exams is as good as doing away with schooling altogether! This decision sounds political! Do our Educators support this backward thinking???
That is not a good idea, the whole purpose of exams is to know where a learner is per time. Assessments are good but they dont bring out the best in students. South Africa doesn’t have grade 7 and 9 exams and look at how messed up the education system is. The minister must make well informed decisions.
Such decisions just mess up the education sector. In SA their education system is messed up due to such thinking that does not add value to the sector. Leave the G7 exams alone and concentrate on how to pay teachers well and those that are still not on payroll. Just to leave a mark does not make sense to some of us! Also concentrate on how Zambia and in particular Ministry of Gen. Ed can author its own books through say the CDC. After all thats why CDC was created – to develop books for schools. Now you have unpaid bills to publishers and you have failed to pay them. Pay the publishers their money. They need the money to survive. Dont divert attention.
disaster!!!!
Please if the government doesn’t have anything sensible to add to our current education system, let them leave the things as they are. In my view they are just trying to cut down costs period.
Ala muleikalafye nga tamukwete ifyakucita. Are you saying even at secondary , colleges and universities you will be assessing students since theres equally malpractice.