Minister of Education, Douglas Syakalima, says there is a need to revive and establish libraries at primary, secondary and tertiary levels in order to improve the reading culture amongst learners.
Mr. Syakalima noted with sadness the disappearance of libraries in most learning institutions.
He said the existence of libraries in the recent past helped learners to acquire extra knowledge away from their classrooms.
He said this in a speech read on his behalf by Ministry of Education Permanent Secretary for Technical Services, Joe Kamoko, in Livingstone yesterday he officially opened the Library and Information Association of Zambia Annual General Conference.
And the Library and Information Association of Zambia (LIAZ) has urged the government to consider employing qualified people to manage various registries and information centres in different government departments in the country.
LIAZ President, Mutinta Nabuyanda, observed that while the country has a good number of higher institutions of learning providing records management training, there is still a high number of unqualified people managing various registries and information centres in different government departments.
Ms. Nabuyanda noted that the introduction of e-records management entails a radical change in the management of records.
She added that there would be a high reduction in loss and leaking of information if qualified people are given the mandate to manage information in various government departments.
She further asked the Ministry of Education to speed up the process of enacting into law the association’s draft bill which has since been submitted to the ministry.
Yes Hon minister the reading culture has sunk to below zero degrees.
How do you write when you can not read? Isn’t English subject number one on the G12 certificate?
The only time this ought to have been realised was 11 years ago, (2011) during education reforms; the second best time is now.
A very welcome initiative, learner from public schools can barely read & write. This is because all empty spaces were taken up by bars, carwash or unplanned settlement. The quality of our grade 12 graduates leaves much to be desired. I once lectured students at a tertiary institution who couldn’t add fractions.
in a speech read on his behalf by Ministry of Education Permanent Secretary for Technical Services, Joe Kamoko,
Well if you will send other people to read speeches for you the learners will learn that they dont have to read. Someone can read for them.
Funny but this is a serious worry.
This is the level of development lungu and PF did not comprehend………..
You are demented. Did Lungu stop your relatives from reading? I read at least one book a month and I don’t need anyone to encourage me.