School curriculum review explained

1. I remember when I was in grade 5, because i was this much intelligent I was asked to go to grade 7, where I for 689 which was the highest at the time in the copperbelt

   Folks, I am not showwing off, but I got 23 points in grade 12 and easily passed to go to grade 10 (388 points) and thus I consider myself a genius

   I am happy thse grade 8?s have made it, but why are the results coming too early, and are they living up to the standards I left when i left zambia considering I have gone on to be doing my PhD?

   Good luck to them all, but remember I did hold the torch once, and led the way. WHo ever is holding the torch now, I am happy for them

   I hope the curriculum is just as tough

   Thanks

   • Grade 7 689 Marks

     Grade 9 388 Marks

     Grade 12 23 Points in 5 subjects

     Thanks,

     then CIMA< ACCA,Msc MBA Bsc in applied Accounts, PhD

     and I am only 27

     Thanks

   • Mushota i now understand why you have such a shallow mind: grade 7, 689 points, 23 points in grade 12 grade 10 (388 points), and you are proud of that, for your information, you wont even be allowed to study for a Diploma at Evelyn hone collage, with those points…now i understand.

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   • How you start is important, very important, but in the end it is how you finish that counts. It is easier to be a self-starter than a self-finisher. The victor in the race is not the one who dashes off swiftest but the one who leads at the finish. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter in life’s race. In Zambia you breed many hares but not so many tortoises
     I hope you get the meaning

     Interesting you accuse me but hide from expressing your marks.

     Thanks

   • This is funny ..all those guys are konkola copper mines officials at kitwe trades schools..journalists yashani iyi..you have no data…..

   • YOU HAVE LEFT TOURISM AS A SUBJECT IN BOTH PRE-SCHOOL/PRIMARY SCHOOL AND SECONDARY SCHOOL LEVELS. APPRECIATING TOURISM AND UNDERSTANDING NATURE PRESERVATION MUST START AT AN EARLY AGE IF WE ARE TO ENCOURAGE OUR CITIZENS TO BE HAVING HOLIDAYS WITHIN AND OUTSIDE ZAMBIA. I ALSO HOPE THAT ZAMBIA HAS INTRODUCE AN ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE (MANDOLIN) IN THAT LATEST CURRICULUM FOR PRE-SCHOOL, PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL LEVELS. AUTOMATICALLY, THIS CAN INCREASE TOURISTS FROM CHINA AND SOLVE DIPLOMATIC MISSION ISSUES AND MANY MORE BENEFITS.

   • Finally an explanation to why you’re so shallow minded and display dull tendencies…

   • OTHER ADDITIONAL LANGUAGES SHOULD BE SPANISH ETC. AND MAKE IT A MUST THAT WHOEVER IS IN ZAMBIA IN THOSE SCHOOL LEVELS MUST LEARN AT LEAST A VENACULAR LANGUAGE WHEREVER THEY ARE. THIS MAKES OTHER PEOPLE FROM OTHER COUNTRIES GAIN CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE ABOUT ZAMBIA.

   • You are such an average student. You require 800 marks at grade 7 to enter Mpelembe Secondary School, 520 at grade 9 to go to grade 10. With 23 point at grade 12, you would have been in the last 2 at Mpelembe from a total of 105 grade 12s. Please stop lying that you were the highest with such low marks. To enter the school of Business at CBU you would have had to score 9 points. Keep such average performance to yourself.

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   • Very poor results indeed of yours and you want to be proud of these pathetic results and show off – crazy!!!. I can assure you such results cannot take you anywhere in Zambia and not even at “that time” of yours. I now see why you are so dull and backward. I wonder what type of a guy Nick is to harbour such a dull chap.

   • Don’t mean to burst you bubble, but your Marks range from average to below average. How 689 at grade 7 be highest in the Copperbelt province? In my case

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   • Bufi

   • But here gentlemen i can support Mushota, getting lower results in earlier years is not being dull, neither is it failure. I think as she put it, what matters is how you utilise these results and run the rest of the race. Some of us, truely our results were not good enough to go straight to UNZA, Nkrumah, CBU or EHC but ended up becoming primary schools teachers. We continued to run the race and today we have Phds and working for Big International Non- Governmental Organisations (recruited from Zambia). So Mushota may have some care free talking, but fimo mulaba mano.

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   • Pa Zed pali insala!! Abena Prof in Pathology, aba kwata ama Lab yabo, baisa aba PS in Min of Education??

     Aba bosa ati Things have improved ba Zed muli kwi??

2. LskTimes what bull is this…

   • So now, how does a grade 4 from Northwestern communicate with a grade 4 from Southern when they meet in Lusaka?

   • @ Reflector
     Simple, they need year one from UK kinder-garden to translate

3. The curriculum is fine from the teacher’s perspective but the challenge is that the course books are not accessible when the same was effected on 13 January 2014! However lessons shall continue through experience!

4. Ninshi ba Patricia Mwewa nyabo bali no lupala?

   • Nifyo fine mukwai balikwata nomba nabena nashimenako panomo teti mubeshibe pali nomba

5. Emukwayiye, nalibeshiba!!! eba Patti

6. I hope the ministry has trained teachers to take up some of the new subjects being introduced. Apart from Human Resource, they should be ready with teaching resources, training exam setters and makers and also look at how schools will cope in terms of load shedding when students are suppose to do ICT or DT lessons or exams. May be the Ministry should acquire generators or powerful solar systems that can sustain. Otherwise, I see teething problems and schools abandoning these important subjects.

7. Inclusion in the School Curriculum of ICT, Entrepreneuship, Business Studies, Design and Technology Studies is OK. But I have issue with the teaching of my child in the so-called ‘Local Common Language’ which I suppose is either Nyanja or Bemba. I am Soli. WHY should my child learn in some ‘common Language’ which he can not even speak? He only speaks Soli and English?

8. Nabena!!!!

9. Zambian education curricula need to change. We learn too many irrelevant subjects right from primary school to university and end up knowing something about everything but end up being good at nothing! If someone is going to be an electrical engineer there is no need to learn history and accounts for example. That’s why most Americans and Europeans don’t know where Zambia is, but they know how to write for example some software. Learning in local language will enhance comprehension of the subject mater, but English should tag along. Students at universities already discuss amongst themselves complicated courses in local languages for better assimilation.

10. Local languages in class, “ine ba ticha ndelomba ulusa mposeko amenshi mukwai”

11. I see Mushota was the most intelligent on the C/Belt. No wonder, you chaps from the Copperbelt were very dull in school and your results can tell. How do you compare with the following from Livingstone, ie is in 1986:
    Grade 7 771 Marks, I could not go to Hillcrest
    Grade 10 6 Points
    Grade 12 12 Points (best 5 subjects),
    Have a degree, and currently doing a Proper professional course.
    Mushota, stop telling us crap.

    • A whee bit nonsense I see..

      Is their anything which is ‘improper professional course’

      Like I said, life is a marathon not a sprint

      You did well, but I had no leakage and I am sure you would rather be in my shoes right now, marrying someone white with my life just about complete , I am not even 30!

      You are drowning now , right? I told you if you slip with me when you throw your points at me, I will pull you to the deeper lakes,

      Thanks

12. MUSHOTA IS DULL.BEEN PROUND OF FAILURE,DURING MY TIME IAM SURE EVEN NOW THOSE RESULTS MUSHOTA CANT TAKE YOU TO ANY COLLEGE MAYBE BACK YARD UNIVERSITIES.

    • I will get you to drown too,

      No educated person types in caps, etiquette is preached at school, and secondly
      what do you have?

      Now crawl back to your hole, you tadpole!

      Biological mishap, you should have been trapped by the prophylactic
      rubber, if that makes any sense to you.
      You are BENEATH me!

      Thanks

    • Yaba this ka fake Mushota is a true consistent irritant, she is like an itchy boil inbetween the butt cheeks that just won’t go away.

    • But here gentlemen i can support Mushota, getting lower results in earlier years is not being dull, neither is it failure. I think as she put it, what matters is how you utilise these results and run the rest of the race. Some of us, truely our results were not good enough to go straight to UNZA, Nkrumah, CBU or EHC but ended up becoming primary schools teachers. We continued to run the race and today we have Phds and working for Big International Non- Governmental Organisations (recruited from Zambia). So Mushota may have some care free talking, but fimo mulaba mano.

    • Mushota (for once) may have a point, but 689 highest on the Copperbelt is a hole in her story!!

      The time i wrote G7, i had 766, and that was just forth place at my school.

      The following year,.. my cousin nailed 823!

      How the trend went to 689 is a mystery, unless Mushota wrote those exams in the late 70’s or early 80’s, which is unlikely since she is 27….

      Her points on ‘What matters is the finish’ are good though!! Foundations are good yes, but it’s the follow through and how you utilise them is what eventually matters!!

13. And then Zambian children of Asian or European origin who are in the private schools that government is insisting this useless policy also be implemented, how will those be taught?

    • Where ever that flag is from, is your daughter learning in Nsenga? No, Zambian children in the diasora are learning local languages at school, thats how it should be. International private schools will still maintain the international curriculum, all other “Private” schools will have to follow the local curriculum.

14. BA LT i cant seee chileshe bweupe in that photo,please edit

15. Ba Mushota, i beg you to please be sober in your approach to things. i grew up in the village got 732 marks for grade 7 ( i wasnt the highest) i never passed number 1 from grade 1 -12 but look i’ve gone ahead to obtain 2 diplomas, 1 certificate, 1 degree, 2 masters and i am contemplating pursuing my PHD or another masters. this does not make me above others as you seem to insinuate in your chronology of boasting. i follow your postings and to me they generally lack consistency or they are typed in the colloquial new language of sms. being in the UK doesnt make you superior neither does marrying a ‘white’ change who you are really. i think you were a disaster when you left this place and you still are despite the education you claim to have. we exported a mediocre and mediocre you still…

    • You have no right to undermine me like that

      Thanks

    • i am sorry if you feel i am undermining you but i was just trying offer a piece of advice for all of us not to intimidate each other based on paper qualifications. a paper will get you a position but not necessarily the job.

16. Mushota is right ,says Mushombo Sata

17. Mushota…Mushota…Mushota….How many time have I mentioned your name? With those poor and useless results you even have the guts to publish them online. Now I understand why ULICINANGWA! niwe chumbu mushololwa. You are too petty mwaiche…plse think big and look at things in a bigger picture iwe pompwe!

    • But here gentlemen i can support Mushota, getting lower results in earlier years is not being dull, neither is it failure. I think as she put it, what matters is how you utilise these results and run the rest of the race. Some of us, truely our results were not good enough to go straight to UNZA, Nkrumah, CBU or EHC but ended up becoming primary schools teachers. We continued to run the race and today we have Phds and working for Big International Non- Governmental Organisations (recruited from Zambia). So Mushota may have some care free talking, but fimo mulaba mano.

18. This is a Babylonian tactic being used by pf,remember when people on the CB could only speak bemba and people from LSK only spoke nyanja etc? We are going back to those days in the next 10 years with pf at the helm.

19. Pipo I agree wit diz education policy I think it will b beta than the 1 b4

20. I think it is a great idea that children will be taught in their tongue. Children will express themselves better knowing they are aloud to speak and learn in the language they are most confident in. And Mushota it is really sickening to hear that you think marrying a white man is cool and makes you more superior to others. It’s very surprising coming from an educated woman, you should know that it’s just the skin colour that makes us different.

21. Mushota states that how you finish your race matters. I do agree with her. Mushota skipped some grades rather than your serial approach to getting your marks. There has been a lot of examination leakages in the recent past at lower levels of education i.e. primary and secondary levels. Some of your renowned universities are at their lowest rankings since 1964. There were reports that some students were awarding themselves grades by manipulating those in the databases while others were merely getting good grades by lifting their skirts to male lecturers. Therefore,I urge you not to appear to be better than her.

22. Was selected to UNZA’s NS School with very humble results (Was selected with a cut off point) from a rural boarding school but outwitted those who came from prestigious schools with very good grades especially mission schools. Some people mature in late stages of life. Even our education minister who has a PHD started with a Primary school certificate. Therefore, I would like to edge all those who did not do well at grade 12 to soldier on.

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