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The purpose of this thesis was to study the levels of adult literacy among the Chewa people of Mancheula Community. This area is at the border between Zambia and Mozambique. In this study, sample population came from eight villages in Mancheula: Fifty households, forty individual adult...

This dissertation considers the benefits of St. Edmunds Secondary School to the community as a day school. To cover the subject, reasons St. Edmunds was changed to a day school from a boarding school and problems it faced as a day school were investigated. Ever since boarding facilities were...

Literate citizens of any country are an asset to that particular country. Furthermore, if a country has got human resource that is literate, then that country stands a better chance of developing and continuing to do so. Literacy is, however, a broad notion. Different types of literacy are talked...

Involving parents in the education of their children with visual impairment is an important aspect in the learning process for these children. Available research shows that the first responsibility for educating a child rests with parents and thereafter it becomes a shared responsibility with the...

This work sought to establish the literacy behaviours which pre-schoolers in selected households of Lusaka‘s Bauleni, Kalikiliki and Woodlands Extension exhibited.The study had a sample size of 21 pre-schoolers and 15 care-givers. The population from which this sample was drawn from was all the...

The main purpose of the dissertation was to establish the literacy levels of people between 15 and 45 years of age in Ng'ombe residential area of Lusaka Urban District. The study specifically tried to answer the questions raised. The study utilized a combination of both qualitative and...

This study is a collective case study. It assesses the various aspects of distance teacher education in the five institutions. These are the University of Zambia, the Zambian Open University, the National In-Service Teachers’ College, the Nkrumah College of Education and the Copperbelt Secondary...

Over the recent years, there have been concerns among Zambians with regard to the quality of education in Zambia with a general feeling that it is declining. One of the factors that contributes to quality in education is the availability of adequate Educational Materials (EMs). However, in spite...

The subject of female head teachers' management practices appears to be a very topical issue with different views among stakeholders (educationists, teachers, parents, pupils). Consequently, the management practices of female head teachers and their influence on school effectiveness is not only...

The study was designed to investigate and assess the role school managers played in managing professional development in basic schools. A sample of teachers, managers, educational administrators and other educationists was obtained using simple random sampling technique. They were subjected to...