Zambezi Education stakeholders called to play their part without blaming each other

Zambezi Governor, Alufea Sampofu, says the region’s NSSCO and NSSCA results over the past years have been disappointing.

Sampofu wonders where the problem is if all teachers are qualified, while the environment in most schools is conducive to learning and teaching.

Therefore, he called on education stakeholders to play their part without blaming each other.

The Zambezi Governor observed that it is not clear whether all parents are involved in their children’s education to assist teachers.

The governor is happy that the regional performance improved to position ten in 2023, but more efforts are still needed as he expects the region to be among the top five.

“We are still encouraging our teachers, principals, and heads of departments to work hard to make sure that this region reaches even position four or one. We give them the task that, from now on, we are looking at a 65 percent pass rate in all our schools in all our subjects so that we can improve the education standard in our country.”

Sampofu called on teachers who still fail to improve their performance in their specific subjects to up their game.

He also calls into question the teachers’ commitment and displine to their work.

“Also, ask the teachers not to mingle with learners, whether at bottle stores, bars, or any drinking places. There will be no respect at all from the learners to the teachers, so the teachers should also respect themselves. We are also requesting that our parents work together with teachers. As we know, charity begins at home, so any learner who goes to school bullying teachers or other learners is not good at all, so such manners should start at home. Parents should make sure their children are disciplined; they have good behaviour; they respect the teachers; and they respect themselves and other learners.”

While appreciating the efforts of those teachers whose learners performed well with A, B, C, and D symbols, the performance in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, and economics remains poor, he observed.

The Zambezi Governor wants to see learners performing exceptionally well in first languages that have poor symbols.

“We want to say that the Silozi language is taught from Grade 1, so it is better that we do better in our own language than English. If we cannot do well in Silozi, then we have a problem, so we want to make sure that our learners get more marks than in any other subject in school when it comes to our first language, Silozi, in the region.’