MINISTER of Science, Technology and Vocational Training Peter Daka says Government plans to build colleges in each district of the country under the supervision of his ministry to ensure all youths in the country have an opportunity to acquire life skills.
Mr Daka said in an interview yesterday the colleges will give a zero-entry point to enrol for studies so as to give school dropouts and those without full certificates an opportunity to acquire life skills.
Mr Daka said under the Sixth National Development Plan (SNDP), Government has a plan to set up institutions in each district so that individuals who will not qualify to enrol in conventional tertiary institutions can have an opportunity to acquire skills through the special colleges.
“Government wants a situation where no youth will lag behind in poverty due to lack of education. That is why we intend to ensure that all youths have a certain skill to enable them compete favourably, and at the same time contribute to national development,” he said.
Mr Daka said students who graduate from these colleges will contribute to national development through starting up their own business ventures in trades such as carpentry and tailoring.
“We realise that even those who drop out of schools should still be accorded an opportunity to have a skill that they can use to pursue their dreams, and in doing so be economically stable,” he said.
Mr Daka said this would in turn help scale down the level of poverty, and the tendency of school dropouts to engage in vices such as drug abuse.
“Acquiring a skill and education will equalise the playing grounds so that even the vulnerable can have competitive advantage in the search of employment,” he said.
And we are going to build airports, railways, new roads, dams, electric power plants, 10 new universities, 20 hospitals launch a couple satellites among other things…….
You are cynical. I am not MMD but if you read the Sixth National Development Plan it is all in there. The FNDP was a success and they actually did what they set out to do. These guys are just very bad at telling people about what they have achieved but to be fair, they did what they promised. One of the submissions to the Indaba was to remove segregation from schools so that everyone has an opportunity to education of some sort that can leave them with a trade. The government has responded to that. So let us not be cynical.
Good idea. Zambia can use more skilled man power. Failure to pass maths does not mean inability to acquire skills like tailoring, bricklaying, carpentry etc.
I hope you implement this. Zambia is full of talk. It has become a ‘let the people talk’ society!
Batata Ba Banda twapapata fumenipofye kanshi chilishani ba mumbezeni Banda,How many projects are you going to start this year?
Ama development yapa last just to blind people so as not to remember how they have suffered before election year. I think its important to fix UNZA first before thinking of expanding kumq district yambi unless lyashi fye which i think it is. By the way, when are the elections date going to be announced?
Probably off topic but Dora siliya has put on weight mwe.What happened to that portable Dora we knew ? Ladies timely advice watch what goes down your throats,frys are bad.
Sheeeeeeeeeet this drum of a woman. Nichani kansi?
KABWE ON STAND STILL FOR SATA’S RALLY. UNBELIEVABLE
#1 muntu
You forgot to add “..and we shall do all that in 90 days “
Under Banda and MMD, Barcelona is moving to Zambia. UNZA is becoming an Ivy League University. Soon UN will be headquartered in Chipata. UBZ is coming backing. Banda just sourced $15 billion from Musokotwane to restart Zambia Airways. Dream on cadres. After all dreams are free.
@number, 10 you have just cracked my ribs wit laughter! yeh, dreams are free indeed
It looks like mmd have run out of ideas. Is it Kambilombilo type of colleges or what? This is fattening the cow on the day of sale. Usually such tricks don’t work. Rb wasted his time flying around like a butterfly not knowing that, one day his term will come to an end and face the people in an election. Last minute promises will not sway voters to vote for mmd and rb.Just get ready you are already in departure lounge.
Zero-point entry colleges might encourage laziness amount the students and politicians may want to use such institution to train the would be leaders because no qualification is needed to be a political figure! Watch this space
I recall the beautiful and captivating Dora Siliya as a continuity announcer or reading the news at ZNBC.But alas! what is this big, round, heavy, fat, huge,colossal, massive and titanic new look Dora eating????Watch your weight woman pliz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is that Dora? They both look well fed! Watch your weight guys we know you are minsters and can afford to eat 24 hours a day like pigs!
What would the weight of Dola Siliya plus Peter Daka equal to? Mmmm… zero-point student? Dora+Peter= box?
Still more fye ba fikamba you must go! You think we will forget all the uselessness of the past? Do Zambians know how much Bwezani will have spent on travelgate if given anither term? His travelling budget alone per annum is more than all our Councils’ budgets put together. Chikatumpa nafuti.
“Ok bati ba Sata balantinya ine! Mwe Lesa, takuli naumbi leader engatusungila ichalo ukwabula umushachinani no no mufimbila?” Mama Beatrice Nawaitwika.
“Ok bati ba Sata balantinya ine! Mwe Lesa, takuli naumbi leader engatusungila ichalo ukwabula umushachinani no mufimbila?” Mama Beatrice Nawaitwika.
Amano yabapwa bangwele. Nomba kulasabaila fye. It is trial and error time. MMD Cadres on LT are even embarrassed to surface. Bwafya.
From the contributions above, it is easy to see that it is only Bemba tribalists who want to see Sata at plot 1. This means that even if Banda found a cure for all cancers and HIV/AIDS, these tribalists would still find something to complain about.
That is your view we will respect it.
You must be an ***** tribalist being fed on RB’s table. why do you have an inferiority complex on your tribe with bembas. You can also bring a man from your tribes men like Sata. Its high time you realised that pipo of zambia want change whether chewa,tonga, bemba or any other ethnic grouping.
You are the one whose tribalist kembo iwe, wekafye u ve thot using your matakos. Now does finding Cance & HIV/AIDS cure mean no poverty, unemployment, clean water, education etc?
Iwe mambala out of topic.
chimunya shut your munyo (your TRIBALIST MOUTH) YOUR TRIBE IS THE MOTHER OF ALL TRIBALISTS CHIKA LALAAAAA
Nice effort but this will be just a zero-sum game.The economic gain to zambia,if any,will be negligible.
Sadly and thankfully Banda will not find the cure for anything at all, but remain corrupt. In fact only a tribalist would see tribalism in people’s contributions even when they are not espousing that. I have not even read anyone complaining here apart from mocking the silliness in the Minister’s crazy idea. What if Bembas are happy and are able to see through the failures of the MMD government? Do they need police permits to voice out or even point out these failures? Are you feeling jealousy?
MMD ministers are surely going crazy. UTH doctors get ready for the biggest arrival of “masilu”. or is it Chainama hospital that should get ready?
Why cant you just fix the current colleges and chnge the curiculum? Imwe bantu…this is myopic thinking…
Why do MMD Ministers eat a cow each for dinner? HH must stop supplying these people with cows every day.
I see the bemba writers have already triggered one tribal comment… anyhow – the concept of these colleges is similar to the community college system in the USA, except there doesn’t seem to be any coherent policy that is being articulated. It is the usual nonsense pre-election; afterwards they will shelf it because it is no cheap endeavour. We really, really need a new politics where local authority must be re-empowered to do some of the things that the entire presidency is now wallowing in.
Elo bwacha nomba ba MMD, they can now see the need for development when all along the only thing they cared about was to fatten their personal bank accounts and their bodies. Look at how fat Dora has become, both financially and “Ichimubili”. Good luck with your plans ba Daka. Twenty years in power as MMD and at this late hour is when you are coming up with such plans! Don’t you think it is a bit too late?
Walasa we. Let him answer
Namuchimona chi Daka efyo chikele. Can this fool care about the poor Zambia. They are just there to fatten their bellies. Uno mwaka muleya ba makaka imwe. Viva PF, Viva Sata.
you id*i*o*ts, deal with school drop out and not encourage it by building useless collages. I wund’t luv 2 c dull carpenters and builders. y cn’t u professionalize these jobs? In other countries carpenters, builders, tailors etc are learned pipo. Take these drop outs, put them back in class and teach them math and science will making sure there are no more drop outs.
Namuchimona chi Daka efyo chikele. Can this f.o.o.l care about the poor Zambia. They are just there to fatten their bellies. Uno mwaka muleya ba m.a.k.a.k.a imwe. Viva PF, Viva Sata.
Manager: “where did you train or study?”
Applicant for a Job: ” I studied at the College for School Dropouts”.
Manager: “…and you think we can employ you? coming from the College for Dropouts??”
for starters are these colleges going to be free? and if so how is the government going to run these institutions because the last time i checked the government is unable to run the current institutions. if not one must bare in mind that the number one reason students drop out of school is because of lack of funds meaning they will drop out of these colleges aswell and we are back to square one…nice try MMD but your time is up
Ukulya bwino kulaletelela, Where is Mubarak now ? Heading for the Hague from Presido to Prisoner !
RB and do u remember RR
Bazadwala mitima this year…. RB does not just talk, this will happen.Â
Peter !!! You have failed to maintain the few Collges and university that are around.How do u think that we will agree with you when u say u will build colleges in every district?All these developments am hearing today would have made sense if i was hearing them just a yaer ago.
#12 Dontcare:”Zero-point entry colleges might encourage laziness amount the students” we already have alot of lazy students who know answers to exam questions but not subject matter of the courses they are taking. I think it will be important to really consider the issue of skills training in this country other than concentrating only on UNZA and other universities. There are developed countries that have such ideas and they panned out. You do not need to pass English in older to be a skilled carpenter or machinist, you only need to know how to read and add numbers
Yes! we shall also create rivers and build bridges in each district.
Wafiona vibelo vanga imwe bantu,,,,sweet course!!!
Credit where it is due. This is a great awakening by MMD. The Japanese piloted such a college in Lusaka, Lusaka Vocational Skills Training Centre, on Malambo road and I think the results are there to see. How I wish the minister explained this to provide a bit more detail to his announcement. The problem I saw at LVTC is that while it was meant for Grade 7 and 9 dropouts, those who completed Grade 12 used their poor Grade 9 results to gain entry. Courses offered at LVTC included metal fabrication (foundry), woodwork, electrical repairing, bricklaying. The graduates either got formal employment or employed themselves as the skills acquired are practical. Fantastic idea for me.
Edina at4 you are truly a woman of conscience,the likes of silvia,edith and wendy sinkala.not the prostitute type of dora diva siliya and her school of other concubines.what you just questioned is the question i have been askin 4 along tym,were will he get the resources to implement all these programes in months before elections when in the bugdet in.am in tooo very much in support of you madam and any other women of integrity like wendy sinkala.vote wisely.
So, the idea is to kill higher education the way they have killed secondary school education by flooding the nation with unproductive Basic Schools.
What is needed is to redesign our education system such that it becomes career oriented from 11th to 12th Grades, remove English as a key subject to have a full certificate. English should just be a functional not a key subject, unless for someone who wants to be an English teacher.
Improve secondary schools laboratories, Chemistry, Physics, Biology & Maths. Offices f
or career matters
Ba Dora choose either to dress up decently or to move with a chitenge as a Zambia women with good morals those hands you are using to cover your big matanta are not enough uletusebanya ulekwata insoni tekubasungu kuno elo abo wikelenabo nibamukabene kafyale twapapata watupapusha mayo
Ministers and leaders should mind what they put on. Those shades make Peter daka look like a thug or conman. If they are colourmatic lenses then he should look for better ones. is that Dora or just one of the officers from the ministry. Those thighs should be for the husband to view not the whole world. Women why do you make yourselves so cheap that you are on every online and public view. When you are savaged and feasted on sexually by monsters you complain like mushota. Please change. Colleges for drop outs? very welcome on condition that its not an election campaign tool because if it is so there is a risk that the project may be abandoned after being re elected.
Awe chi Dora nizii maningi. Ukalamenafye amate!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why not just improve on education standard and promote excellence!! i would rather you build more universities than that backward development. Dont accommodate fauilures but help them do better! amother useless capaign too………………..
Even in countries where there are hundreds of Universities and good grades, not every one chooses to go to University. I have been to University and if I had had a choice I would have taken up a trade. Degrees do not make millionaires.
Iwe Peter Daka stop day dreaming why cant you improve the already existing colleges which are dilapidated ? if you start building the so called colleges when are you going to finish them because you only have three months to pack your bags and go . your campaign gimmick wont work too late bane kuya bebele
#20 – Chimunya
Please leave tribalism alone. You are free to express yourself but leave us alone. Why are you guys always talking about tribalism everywhere, anywhere, anyhow, anytime? Can’t people even joke in their languages? That xenophobia will take you nowhere man! Grow up!
Suddenly govt will do a lot of things! The bloggers do not seem impressed! Its all Ali Baba and the 40 thieves stuff! Can govt allow voting from abroad? If u do that Kanitundila I will vote for you
The two look like brothers, only that the other has no beards
I feel for the poor in Zambia. They have a government that seems to forget the basic tenets of development. Entering Lusaka from the airport gives you an idea of the mentality prevailing. The city has no design concept and no building regulation. Yet people keep talking about doing great things. How do you talk of colleges when just 30% of pupils enter secondary school and even less enter university? Why can’t we develop in the right way, rather than through sound bites? If there’s money, why not improve the quality of secondary schools and increase their intake? Why not provide universal free education? Why not provide adequately trained teachers in adequate numbers and adequately remunerated? Why talk big when you can’t even balance your budget without increasing the country’s debt?
Dora come here! I can train you to be a sumo fighter!!!
#48 If your fellow Bembas left tribalism behind, there is no way in hell that they would want the mad satan to become president of Zambia. Go and preach to your bululus before you start preaching to me.
this is good, let us keep up the pressure on these people to deliver to our people. We must keep this spirit even if we change govt this year. If one pins himself to the 90days, we must all sign to his ears about the 90 days. As for the economical empowerment under UPND we must sign the same. But MMD you seem to be over dreaming at the moment, too many projects in the short term to be sustainable. please do not leave a huge kongole for my children
Ma rubbish,even the biggest fool can tell that this is ma rubbish, even the developed countries dont commission projects in this fashion.By the way tell us when you will be sending man to the moon ,you seemed to have big big projects especially at this time of the year.and may i also request that you open up another TV channel ( TV 3) where you will be just showing your million developmental projects
Great ideas man I hope the man they send to the moon is Rupiah since he loves travelling. And I hope Chanda Chimba is shunted to this third channel so I can make use of my licence fee by watching Chimba-free channels
Nice effort but too late, even the courses yama rubbish. Kuya mukwaiii
This can happen in Utopia. A college without entry qualifications will attract everyone. So how do you regulate entrance? “Look I failed worse than you so I deserve a place here?” That can’t work. It only opens wider the door to corruption. Like UNIP did to cadres’ families by sending ill qualified sons and daughters to Eastern European universities, the MMD will pack relatives into these Zerolleges!
If that is the case just remove the concept of writing exams it will be cheaper than building all the proposed colleges.
BULLSHIT! No need to comment
Dora Siliya ni chi mzimai, no one can resist….I love u DS how about that
Ubu ebupa ubusha ikulila.Mwalifilwa ukula university of Ndola and mwalifilwa ukuwamya imsebo until amaelection elyo mwaishiba ati kuti mwakula ama colleges.Kuya bebele
#52 Dora Siliya drinks 20 litters of Maheu and sour milk everyday, I don’t who can export. Maybe #25 knows better.
Peter, is this how you have grown FAT? My Goodness, evern if Power is Sweet, control your health man? go to GYM.
Mh, Bane bonse imwe bangwele 1-63 kuti mwatemwa ukukunta po pali chi mayo ici mu picture. Ofcourse excluding ba PF. Imwe nipali Peter.
‘ZERO-ENTRY POINT,…….EFINSHI IFYO……..MWASENSELA ILYO KAWA………..YOU ARE NOW PANICKING AND HENCE THESE FUNNY CONCEPTS……….IT’S A LITTLE TOO LATE FOR YOU…..TRY AFTER 30 YEARS……….YOU’RE ACTING COMPLETELY USELESS……….WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL THIS TIME?????……WE ARE ALREADY DECIDED TO VOTE FOR SATA AND NO BODY ELSE………TETI MUTUBEPE NA FAKE DEVELOPMENT………..DONCHIIIIIIIIIIIIIII KUBEBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA……….BYE BYE POLIO……………………
Is Dora still staying with some married man at inter continental hotel? Vibelo kuwama ime!!!!
what is that protruding under ba Peter’s hands.Is it because of those exposed thighs? Someone tell me na papata….
What! 72+ colleges? Wake me up when they (colleges) have built and running :-w
IMWE BA SO CALLED MINISTER, WHY WEAR A MINI IF YOU DON’T WANT US TO SEE WHAT IS INSIDE?……………….MWASEBANA……….AND YOU CALL YOURSELF A WOMAN OF MORALS????………UBU-ULE BWAMIFULUNGANYA BA DOLA……………..TWALISHIBAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
# 64 – Monko
Imwe tamumfwa ha ha ha!! Viva ba monko! Viva PF!
# 53 – Chimunya
Chimunya nishani mune naiwe. Chilax mwana mulombwana. Lets just enjoy Dora here ha ha ha!!!
Dora is the ONE…….I need to hook up this chick
PF will do all this within 90 days so what’s all the fuss you MMD guys?
i wonder whether some of these politicians read comments on LT.Surely they would change for the beter.
DRESS CODE FOR MoE
Now what is you expect from school girls if MoE would dress like she has done?
plse that pic 4 dola is disgustin, hav even lost my guten appetite, can sum1 remove it, oohh hav gotten nausea, Shi.t!!!
THESE CHAPS ARE SERIOUS DREAMERS
IWE NO.76 RU SURE U ARE DISGUSTED OR KAPENA UZIGWILA CHABE PALI LEG
Dora ilinakwendo m’fana…ungaveke bwino maningi
pf carders talk issues not what some wears, you lack issue based, just like you leader who keep forgetting what he says. stick to the story
With all due respect miss Dora Siliya should start exercising and eating subway salads like jerrad. If this was implemented in 2008 and 2009 the vocational thing would have meant sense. As it stands this is politician’s hot air. You all know hot air rises and disappears until when warm again like election time.
Looks like a difficult pose for Dora since she usually has those gigantic elephant thighs open and free for all. Fat sllut b**ch. Wonder who she’s giving AIDS today
# 74,Walya iweeee…. I tell you these chaps dont read fron this forum.I wish they wer reading.Ine pantu kuti naikulika if i was a minister and pipo are talking about all this i have read under my government mwandiiiiiii…..
These colleges will be full of dunderheads. In short they will be full of PF cadres
Ime sure leave Damaged Siliya alone. She trying to be sweet in this picture with a smile and her horse tail hair.
This is nothing but blah blah blah blah! Had these two been saying these electioneering blah blah before that monkey that baptized their boss, it would have done the same to them too because they need saving for “the lord”. And just look at the obesity, the two Kumawans are fully saturated with stolen wealth! Awe sure imbeba shakwa Lesa shili mu cibe, if there is no change of government soon there will be no mbeba in Lusaka because they will all be captured and eaten by Daka and Siliya. Ba koswe bakwa Lesa are now endangered species. Â
Zambian Ministers if you were to pay them one ngwee for their ‘wonderful’ ideas you would get change! Where to they get these pathetic ideas from? There are people who leave school because of the pyramidal structure of the education system- few places. They are NOT dropouts!!! Give them some respect! They are not all DULL!!!!
Dora’s skimpy outfit oozes a dirty demeanor that could usefully replace waterboarding as a means for extracting information from horny suspected Linyungandambo “terrorists”. I mean, it takes a lot of vile guts for a clearly obese girl like Dora to force herself into a dress ten times below her actual size leaving all manner of flesh protruding left, right and centre. One would rather associate such skimpy outfit with Silvio Berlusconi’s notorious  “bunga bunga” parties, not a Christian nation minister of education at a press conference. If Dora’s left hand was not resting on her elephantic thighs but holding a book titled “Tasintha”, one would be excused for thinking this is a circus these two were staging.
What is the point of going to school then?? Turn all schools into zero-entry point colleges!!
ba pete bena ni ba punka naka lefye he has bin surving on politics from unip to heritage party to mmd that has bin his career so he is used to this political language