The source of salinity and the geochemical processes that control the groundwater salinization in the Machile River Basin within the Sesheke and Kazungula districts of Western and Southern provinces of Zambia are not well understood and explained. The central part of the basin contains saline...
Download PDF ↓The Zambian education system tends to emphasise more on examinable subjects like Science, Maths and English, which have immediate result at the expense of healthy minds and healthy bodies. Physical education aims at preparing individuals physically, socially, mentally, culturally, intellectually...
Download PDF ↓At the time of independence government considered Adult Education as a tool to address the great challenges of human resource that it needed in its quest to Zambianise the public sector. The Lockwood Committee recommended the establishment of the University of Zambia and urged for the...
Download PDF ↓This study sought to investigate the perspectives of stakeholders’ on the re-introduction of primary-secondary school structure in Solwezi district of the North-Western province of Zambia. The objectives of the study were as follows: To determine the views of stakeholders on the consultation...
Download PDF ↓The problem for this study emerged from the fact that nothing was known with regards to how students in credit courses of the University of Zambia (UNZA) extension programme perceived the teaching techniques used by their Tutors. Thus, its purpose was to establish such perceptions. The objectives...
Download PDF ↓This study was conducted at the University of Zambia and it investigated students’ perceptions of the quality of student welfare services. Little documented literature in this area necessitated the need for this study. The study used closed-ended questionnaires for the systematic randomly sampled...
Download PDF ↓In the last decade of the 20th Century, human Tuberculosis (TB) has re-emerged with a significant impact on global public health. About 9.4 million new cases of human TB are recorded annually with approximately 1.7 million deaths, affecting mainly young adults in their most productive years. The...
Download PDF ↓One of the constraints to crop productivity is weed infestation. Options in weed management are varied and can be associated with high costs unaffordable by small-scale farmers. Biological weed management through allelopathy presents an attractive option. Sunflower has been reported to possess...
Download PDF ↓Background: In most neonatal intensive care units (NICUs), including the NICU at University Teaching Hospital (UTH), Lusaka, initiation of enteral feeds in very low birth weight (VLBW) neonates, is predominantly delayed for forty-eight to seventy-two hours, whilst they are commenced on...
Download PDF ↓Background: In view of all the recorded devastation it is causing to society and human life, HIV/AIDS appears to be in possession of all the characteristics of a contemporary social problem facing the world today, particularly Sub-Saharan Africa. Voluntary Medical Male circumcision (VMMC) in...