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This study aimed at investigating the response of School Administrators to poor performance in O-level Physics examinations. The study further aimed at finding out the views held by School Administrators on the high failure rate and the measures they had put in place to improve performance. The...

It has been reported that 50 to 95% of small-scale maize (Zea mays L.) farmers weed their fields once during the growing season. The weeding is done at either 2-3 leaf or 7-8 leaf time of weeding. Farmers using hoes dig up the weeds, shake off the soil and either leave the weeds to dry in the...

Joint effects ofn pre-selection mating system (RA) and percent truncation selected(20%;50%;0%(control) were studed in a 2x2x3 factorial experiment with 5 replicates to examine direct response to selection for pupal weight(PW), and correlated responses for larval weight(LW) and papation time(PT)in...

The aim of this study was to investigate risk factors and explore child sexual abuse among high school pupils in Lusaka District. Specifically, the study focused on identifying the forms of sexual abuse; examine the factors that put children at risk for sexual abuse; find out the grooming tactics...

The need to improve the socio-economic well being of the citizenry has placed huge challenges on the provision of better social infrastructure in developing countries like Zambia. To help with meeting the challenges, inputs from local communities have been incorporated in infrastructure...

This study investigated school managers, teachers, and pupils' opinions of effective teachers in selected high schools of Lusaka urban district. Random sampling was used to select the seven high schools. Data was collected using questionnaires,semistructured interviews, Focus Group Discussions...

This study is meant to provide information about the local structure of service centers to facilitate effective planning for rural areas so as to improve them and the welfare of the rural dwellers. To foster development, it is important to identify the problems of the present distributive system...

This study examines both the Northern Rhodesian colonial and the Zambian governments' policies and practices on settlement schemes in Chipata District (formerly known as Fort Jameson) of Eastern Province of Zambia. It looks at the way the economic policies for settlement schemes were formulated...

The Government of the Republic of Zambia together with Non-Governmental Organizations have been informing the nation about the dangers of HIV and AIDS since the 1990s. Although the HIV and AIDS pandemic has affected all age groups in society,the most vulnerable groups are women and young people...

The study focused on the sexual behaviour of the mentally retarded students in vocational training Institutions in Ndola and Lusaka districts, Zambia.There has been no empirical research existing in the study of sexuality and mental retardation in Zambia, although there is scanty literature on...