Zambia National Education Coalition (ZANEC) Executive Director George Hamusunga feels the new dawn administration has paid more attention to primary and secondary education while neglecting tertiary education.
Mr Hamusunga has since urged the New Dawn administration to treat every level of education with equal importance.
Mr Hamusunga told a local radio station that tertiary education is very cardinal because it is responsible for molding citizens into various specialists that harness natural resources for the socio-economic development of the country.
Mr. Hamusunga has cited the delay in reinstating student meal allowance and the inadequate number of students granted students loans as some of the indicators that higher education is not been given the attention it deserves, yet there is a Free Education Policy for Primary Education.
He has urged the government to find ways of tackling the pressing issues that have been affecting higher education within the 2022 budget and not wait for next year.
Indeed it is very worrying to see the majority children not accessing tertiary education. The example at hand being the 8004+ first year students who were accepted to persue their education at UNZA but have been left in the cold. I tell you there’s alot going round in the minds of this youth group because the few who were given this facility are very lucky and have already reported at UNZA for orientation but the rest ( 8004+) who had some hope have now lost it because their govt which mostly pronounced about this bursary and Loans facility for all those who will qualify have gone quiet starting with or from the President himself and the Minister of Education. There were some words of relief and hope from HELSB despite some assurances from the CEO of the HELSB ( Higher Educational…