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...
Zambia, like most less developed countries, opted for import substitution industrialization (ISI) as a strategy of economic advancement. The success of ISI performance in Zambia would have resulted in the abundance rather than scarcity of foreign exchange; economic diversification;resolution of...
Download PDF ↓In Zambia currently, there is evidence that the majority of the headteachers lack relevant training for their posts. In response to the challenge, there have been efforts to offer in-service training to the headteachers. However, while in-service training programmes are worthwhile efforts, there...
Download PDF ↓In-service Training (INSET) opportunities among secondary school teachers in Private Schools. This study investigated the availability of INSET opportunities among teachers in private secondary schools in Zambia (2001). Ten schools, five from Lusaka and the other five from Copperbelt Province...
Download PDF ↓The study assessed the prevalence of drug resistant malarial parasites in patients at Solwezi urban clinic in northwestern province of Zambia in February 2004, using the in-vivo and molecular methods. In the in-vivo method each patient was monitored for signs and symptoms of the disease following...
Download PDF ↓Soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) is an important crop in Zambia but many foliar diseases pose a serious threat to its successful production in the country. During the last three years frogeye leaf spot disease caused by Cercospora sojina Hara has become the most prevalent disease in most parts of...
Download PDF ↓The purpose of the study was to examine the obstacles to the implementation of inclusion of the hearing impaired children in the mainstream. The study evaluated the views of twenty-one teachers, seven head teachers, seven parents and seven hearing impaired pupils on Inclusive Education in Kasama...