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Women in Zambia, just like in any other developing country, have for a long time, been marginalised in society. This is because social and cultural attitudes in traditional Zambian societies assigned women an inferior status in the social, economic and political life of our country. It took...

The punishment and reform of offenders are responsibilities performed by every state. They are the conventional reasons why imprisonment continues to be used. In Northern Rhodesia the use of imprisonment was introduced by the British South Africa Company (BSAC)during the first decade of the...

The purpose of the study 1. To determine the conceptions of inquiry method held by social studies college lecturers, and tudents in selected pre-service primary teachers'colleges and among serving teachers. 2. To establish the extent to which inquiry method is utilized in the training of social...

The study was conducted in response to the pertinent need to provide Universal Basic Education (UBE) to pupils by 2015. The study was concerned with science kits and their use in the learning and teaching of environmental science. This was to establish whether or not the policy pronouncement of...

Shortly after independence, in 1964, the Zambian government embarked on a rapid expansion of the entire education system. However, the rapid expansion of the education system, coupled with a rapid population growth and the seemingly insurmountable economic problems, soon engendered problems in...

The operations of the Zambezi Sawmills (ZSM) were a new phenomenon in Barotseland. They enhanced the transformation of the pre-existing modes of production, particularly in southern Barotseland. The company's initial aim was to supply railway sleepers, parquet and furniture to the market of...

For a long time, Zambia's economic policies disregarded other sectors of the economy in favour of copper mining as the sole foreign exchange earner. The tourism industry has been among the most neglected sectors. It should not be surprising therefore that very little published research has...

The purpose of this study was to assess the training needs of both basic and high school managers in selected schools of Chongwe District in Lusaka Province of Zambia. The study was intended to find out the extent to which school managers participated in determining their own training needs and...

Although transport is believed to be important, most developing countries do not give it the priority it deserves. In many cases, transport is completely neglected while in other cases, very little is being done inspite of the realization of its value. In this study therefore,the aim is to make a...

Trends in public recurrent expenditures in Zambia 1964-82, This research project will examine the main determinants of the ratio and changes in the ratio of public recurrent expenditures to GNP on both the aggregate and disaggrepate functional levels. The hypothesis is that the institutional...