The media industry in Zambia has been growing significantly since 1991 with the re-introduction of multi-party system. After the demise of the one party state, government liberalised the economy but instead of privatising state media, government liberalised the airwaves, allowing new entrants...
Download PDF ↓This study set out to find out the status of Religious Education (RE) in eight (8) High Schools in Kitwe Town on the Copperbelt. The study employed both qualitative and quantitative strategies to explore and quantify respectively, answers to fundamental questions affecting the existence of RE as...
Since the advent of colonial rule, the system of land alienation in Zambia has not received adequate attention both in terms of legal and institutional reform in line with political and socio-economic changes, and population growth. Even with the attainment of political independence in 1964,...
Download PDF ↓Zambia is an Anglophone country, resulting from its colonial past, and hence English is its official language. This means that high school leavers need to have mastered all the receptive and productive skills in the use of English required for effective communication in the real world outside...
Malaria is a disease of great public health importance in Zambia. It is a major cause of morbidity and mortality and is endemic in all nine provinces. The malaria transmission paradigms may be higher in urban populations than in peri-urban and rural population and peri-urban areas tend to become...
Download PDF ↓Since the 1980s, mathematics educators around the world have accepted the view that to develop numeracy effectively, young children need initially to use strategies for mental calculation rather than to memorise textbook procedures. The term mental calculation refers to informal, often untaught...
Download PDF ↓The advent of the HIV/AIDS pandemic has raised important questions for policy makers, practitioners and researchers on finding appropriate strategies to mitigate its impact on society, particularly on the youth, who form a very important potential resource for future development. It has long been...
Download PDF ↓Tuberculosis is a debilitating disease caused by the bacteria of the genus Mycobacterium. The disease has been recognized for centuries and its causative agents have continued to be studied to date. Mycobacterium species cause disease in animals, birds and humans. They can cause cross infection...
Download PDF ↓Lusaka sits on a limestone rock formation which makes recharge as well as pollution of groundwater very easy due to the presence of channels created by solution weathering. Informal/unplanned settlements where waste disposal facilities are non-existent are potential groundwater contamination...
Download PDF ↓In Zambia, currently, the graduate teachers for high schools (Grades 10 to 12) are trained at the University of Zambia. However, it has been observed that most of the high schools do not have adequate numbers of university graduate teachers. In the absence of sufficient graduate teachers to teach...