President Rupiah Banda says the education sector should be recognized as the centre of national economic Development.
President Banda said there is need therefore to harmonize the education and science and technology ministries, respectively, in the promotion of Information Communication Technology (ICTs) in the sector.
He said this in a speech read on his behalf by Education minister Dora Siliya at the National Education policy review consultation under the theme: “ re-engineering education wards vision 2030 “in Lusaka today.
The president added that there is the need for parents to work with teachers to have an education system that will have values and skills for national development.
Speaking earlier Finance and National Planning minister Situmbeko Musokotwane said there is need for quality education to have a solid economic background in the country.
Mr. Musokotwane noted that government will continue to prioritize the education sector and to increase the budget in the Education sector.
He noted need to enhance the issue of poverty through cost sharing for the betterment of the education sector in the country.
He added that financing the Education sector will be maintained as a priority within government overall expenditure policy and strategy and the need to fund more to the education sector.
Meanwhile Computer Association president Collins Chinyama noted that need to train teachers in ICTs if the country is to attainment of the values of the vision 2030.
Mr. Chinyama also noted that need to decentralize and localize the education sector adding that this will scale up the value of ICTs in the education sector.
He stressed the need for government to spell out clearly about the ICTs in the National Education policy review consultation.
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If you think education is the key, then why assign such a responsibility to an incompetent person Dora Siliya who not even understand the word ‘nullity’? Are you serious about this statement or are you just politiking as you have always done? Tell us that your children with Thandiwe still go to School in Zambia and that they are taught by Zambian teachers. I thought you worked with KK and you should know better how serious KK was with edducation. 2011 mudala will be hard unless you really put your act together. You will cry like UNIP in 1991. Its a 20 year cycle – wait mudala and dont forget some your children are still very young ka!!!
For as long as you and your government MR RB you dont respect teachers and pay them what they deserve and improve their living education will never improve in Zambia. above all Mr RB if your wife graduate with diploma in IT,dont think every zambian should now switch and pursue a career in IT, your advise should have embraced all careers pipo have or are interested to go into
The Minister is Dr. Musokotwane. He has an earned PhD.
RB has the audacity to talk about education, when he has total disregard for teachers. His government needs to address the plight of teachers, as they are in the frontline of education. So Mr. President, instead of increasing MPS and awarding yourselves with hefty, undeserved gratuities, you should do something about teachers and nurses wages. As for Dora Siliya, what a joke!!
Yes education is the key, but pay teachers their dues. Please quit paying your wife teacher salary when she does not teach. That is theft and the case is prosecutable just as any crime. How can you be educating your wife with stolen money from the ministry of education? That is not education, that is theft and it is a shame that the wife of the President has been paying her tuition fees with stolen money. Please own up. Be a man and refund the Ministry with interest.
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RB must be told that such rhetoric is the last thing we want to hear from him. If he really respected Education, he would not be toying with it by placing ka Siliya there.