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This study evaluated school guidance service provision in high schools for pupils with visual impairments in Mumbwa and Sefula High schools for the Blind. The sample consisted of forty eight respondents from two co-educational boarding high schools running a unit for the visually impaired pupils....

The primary purpose of this research was to assess the impact of management styles exhibited by practising school heads on teacher performance in selected government high schools. Interview schedules and questionnaires were used to capture data from respondents, though the questionnaire was the...

This study sought to identify factors that contributed to poor life condition of female graduates with mental retardation from vocational training institutions in Zambia and measures that could address such factors. The study was carried out in five provinces (Lusaka, Central, Copperbelt, Luapula...

This was a comparative study based on 400 grade 5 children who had lost one or both parents against their 400 peers in the same grade with both parents alive. Data collection involved the children completing various tests for academic performance, the Child Behaviour Checklist (CBCL), and the...

Largely employing the qualitative methodology, the study reports the perceptions of some Lusaka residents on the creation of Munali Girls High School out of Munali Secondary School. The study reveals participants' perceptions; the most reported being the fact of providing a High School for girls...

This study set out to investigate the attitude of both parents and teachers towards the use of English as medium of instruction at lower basic level in Livingstone and Namwala districts of Southern Province. Secondly, the study sought to establish whether parents and teachers were in any way...

One's perception and attitude towards Mathematics affects their conception of how it should be learned and presented (Ernest, 1998). This study was a survey of high school pupils' perceptions and attitudes towards Mathematics in the Copperbelt Province of Zambia. Pupils' perceptions and attitudes...

Fishing was one of the oldest and lifelong human activities which did not only attract high population densities, but was also used, in certain areas, as an alternative source of income and food security. Fish contributed to the development of trade between the riverine communities, which caught...

In Zambia today, a number of international policies have been ratified; among them was the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) which was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 20 November 1989 and came into force on 2 September 1990. In line with this Convention...

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether social environment of a blind person has an effect on his/her desire to work. This study also investigated whether self-esteem and low vocational training of a blind person have an effect on his/her desire to work.A sample size of 80 visually...