Browsing Education Administration and Policy Studies by Issue Date
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Evaluating school health policies in Zambia: an application to administration of the hiv and aids health education policies in the selected basic schools of Mazabuka district.
(Africa federation of teaching regulatory authorities, 2012)This paper evaluated the effectiveness of the HIV and AIDS school health education programmes in the selected basic schools of Mazabuka district. The principle objective of the study was to examine the implementation ... -
Social isolation and aging in Zambia: examining the possible predictors.
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2012)ThisresearchpaperexaminedsocialisolationandaginginZambiabyexaminingpossiblepredictors.Thepaperproducesevidence on risk factors likely to engender social isolation among the elderly population of Zambia. Snowball sampling ... -
Students’ perceptions of financing public universities in Zambia: toward a more sustainable and inclusive policy strategy.
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)Since 1964, when Zambia became independent from British colonial rule, education became a major public agenda item for the development of human capital. The university of Zambia founded in the years after independence and ... -
Cost sharing in Zambia’s public universities: prospects and challenges.
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Zambia: an overview of formal education.
(Continuum Books, 2014)Zambia attained its political independence from Britain in 1964. Before this period there were 75 years of colonial administration during which most of the provision of education was mainly in the hands of missionaries ... -
Theory against practice: training of teachers in a vacuum.
(Journal of Education & Social Policy, 2015)This paper is based on a study conducted in selected schools in Lusaka District in Zambia. The study aimed at getting teachers’ and head teachers’ perceptions on the performance of University of Zambia student teachers ... -
Relevance of teacher induction programmes in promoting professional development of teachers in Zambia.
(2015)This paper highlights the relevance of teacher induction programmes in the professional development of new teachers in Zambia. With regards to research methodology, the authors reviewed and critically analysed various ... -
HIV and AIDS workplace policy : an implementation assessment of strategies in selected high schools of Lusaka and Northern provinces.
(2015)Using qualitative and quantitative approaches, this study investigated the extent to which teachers and secondary school pupils were benefiting from the strategies that were being implemented in secondary schools of ... -
Education for all: 50 years after Zambia's indepencence.
(School of Education, 2015)This article explains that although there has been progress towards increased access to primary education for grades 1 to 7 over the years, there has been no similar progress for junior secondary school, grades 8 to 9. ... -
Current issues in education law in Zambia : what educators must know.
(2015)The paper discusses the importance of understanding the nature and implications of legal issues in education. It analyses the scholarly articles related to education law globally. Most importantly, it analyses issues ... -
Effectiveness and viability of revenue diversification in sub-saharan africa’s higher education: examining Zambia’s public universities.
(International Journal of Humanities Social Sciences and Education, 2015)Universities world over especially in Sub-Saharan Africa are pressed by the severity of inadequate government funding. In Zambia, the government has attempted to respond to this austerity by putting different policies to ... -
HIV and AIDS workplace policy: an implementation assessment of strategies in selected secondary schools of Lusaka and Northern provinces.
(School of Education, 2015)Using qualitative and quantitative approaches, this study investigated the extent to which teachers and secondary school pupils were benefiting from the strategies that were being implemented in secondary schools of ... -
Teacher professionalism in Zambia: practices, challenges and prospects in the post-2015 era.
(2016)This article discusses the concept of teacher professionalism in the Zambian context. The aim of the article was to highlight the current strides that newly established Teaching Council has put in place in its quest to ... -
Shifting from government bursaries to a loan scheme in higher education: exploring the Zambian experience in student financial aid.
(International Journal of African Higher Education, 2016)One of the current critical issues in higher education in Africa and globally is about making student loans available in a sustainable and cost-effective manner. The argument is more complicated for Africa because of the ... -
Illuminating the academic and socio-economic implications of inadequate boarding facilities among students in public tertiary institutions: a case of the University of Zambia.
(2016)This study investigated the socio-economic challenges arising from the acute shortage of accommodation at the University of Zambia. With analytical focus on un-accommodated students at the institution’s Great East Road ... -
Course managing, teaching and assessing undergraduates at the medical school of the University of Zambia.
(International Journal of Humanities Social Sciences and Education (IJHSSE), 2017)There has been high examination attrition rates and low student Grade Point Average among undergraduate programmes in the School of Medicine of the University of Zambia. Such a situation was cause for concern and, therefore ... -
University of Zambia: contextualization and contribution to flagship status in Zambia.
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)Higher education in Zambia and Africa in general has witnessed a plethora of challenges such as financial austerity, accessibility, faculty recruitment and retention, massification, lack of true institutional autonomy, and ... -
The use of social networks in curbing HIV in higher education institutions: a case study of the University of Zambia.
(Scientific Research Publishing Inc, 2017)The AIDS epidemic has affected every aspect of Zambian society and is recognized as the greatest public health challenge of the past 30 years. Nevertheless, education can generate hope in the face of the epidemic using ...
