By Emmanuel Mwamba
ZAMBIA GOING BACK TO STANDARD SIX AND FORM 1
● Zambia adjusts education system
● Early Childhood hood Education reduced from 4 to 3 years.
● Schools grading system to run from Grade 1-6(Primary Education).
● FORM to 1 to Form 3 ( Secondary Education).
● Form 4 to 6 (A Levels).
The Ministry of Education Permanent Secretary , Education Services, Mr Joe Kamoko writes in his preamble:
“Above all, the 2023 Education Curriculum has adjusted the structure of the education system from 4-7-2-3 to 3-6-4-2.
EARLY AND PRIMARY EDUCATION
Early Childhood Education (ECE) has been reduced from 4 to 3 years , while primary education level has also been reduced from 7 to 6 years, with eligible age entry also being reduced from 7 to 6 years.
SECONDARY EDUCATION-FORM 1-FORM 3
The secondary education level has been restructured and increased from 5 to 6 years.
A-LEVELS
This is to accommodate 2 years of A- levels. Thus, learners will be provided with 4 years of ordinary secondary education and 2 years of advanced Secondary (“A” level).
Notably, Forms have replaced Grades at Secondary school level.
I salute you ,upnd for this corrective measure in our educational system.You have scored a major plus plus , long live Zambia!, I n future let pre school and primary school teachers do the training by the time they complete Form Six to help poor parents who cannot afford paying college fees for their children.From Berlin
Trash. Changes by every regime that come into power! This is not the way to go. MMD introduced the so called ” Basic schools “, then PF did away with this and introduced the compulsory early childhood education, then again we are adopting a system just similar to the DRC system. There’s absolutely no need to disturb our system. It’s not broken, this no need to fix it.
Our universities are also taylored to the current secondary school system. Are we now going to also start disturbing their studies when we have better things to worry about?
Everything he touches he breaks. Economy, Kwacha, fuel prices, health, cost of living, and now education. He is taking us back to the cave days.
All this nonsense will be reverted in 2026.
Under 5.
This is a good plan well overdue. Please let us divide A-level education (firm 5&6) into it Non-technical (arts, and humanities introduction) and technical (science and engineering) and give certificates at this level. Then college and university will be easier since the A-level graduates will already have a feel of what to expect at tertiary level…something similar to what Mpelembe secondary school had in firm six but more enhanced.
Fix the economy guys not restructuring our education system you are running out time.
The cockroaches have no shame to tack back their misinformation even when the truth is bare…..