This study sought to determine the impact of drug and alcohol abuse school-based preventive strategies on pupils in Livingstone district of Zambia. The study was carried out in eight schools (Hillcrest, St Raphael’s, Linda, David Livingstone, Nalituwe, Linda West, Zambezi and Shungu). The Social...
Download PDF ↓Postnatal depression (PND), a major depressive episode during the puerperium that affects 10% to 22% of adult women before the infant’s first birthday. Being HIV positive has been known to be associated with increased risk of mental disease. Its influence on postnatal depression has not been...
Download PDF ↓There are many non climatic factors influencing the agricultural potential of an area, but of the climatic factors, the most important are the distribution in time and the amount of rainfall. The purpose of this study is to probe rainfall variability based on the persistence model which follows a...
Download PDF ↓Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) is an economic model of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) that was adopted by a number of Third World countries as far back as the 1960s' as a way of rectifying the macro-economic...
Download PDF ↓This study set out to examine the impact of the Free Basic Education Policy (FBEP) on the enrolment and completion rates of pupils from low-income households in selected Basic Schools of Lusaka, Zambia. The study used a survey research design. The study sample comprised 100 Grade 7 pupils, 5 head...
Download PDF ↓This study set out to examine the impact of the Free Basic Education Policy (FBEP) on the enrolment and completion rates of pupils from low-income households in selected Basic Schools of Lusaka, Zambia. The study used a survey research design. The study sample comprised 100 Grade 7 pupils, 5 head...
Download PDF ↓Deforestation in Zambia is a source of concern to various stakeholders. Agriculture, which includes tobacco growing and its curing, is cited as a major factor, among others,contributing to woodland clearance. Tobacco production is associated with deforestation because it requires large quantities...
Download PDF ↓The New Zambian High School Geography Curriculum (NZHSGC) that was launched in the year 2000 by the Curriculum Development Centre (CDC) of the Ministry of Education (MoE) carried with it a new component called the field project. The reason for proposing a field project was that the geography...
Download PDF ↓Many countries including Zambia have on several occasions changed approaches in the schools including the Middle Basic School. In Zambia some of the approaches have been the Zambia Primary Course (ZPC) and there is now the current Zambia Teacher Education Course (ZATEC). The objective of the...
Download PDF ↓Maize is the main staple food crop in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC), which includes Zimbabwe and its productivity increases when improved varieties are planted. Development of such technologies is mainly by public and private breeding programs, which in most cases do this in...