Luapula schools yearn for better education standards

MIKE MUGALA, Change

DESPITE government scoring tremendous strides within the provision of secondary education across the usa, the same old of training in most rural faculties continue to be below par, and Museka, Maya, Lucinda, and Lamb- Chomba secondary colleges in Luapula province aren’t an exception.

These schools have specifically been tormented by a loss of infrastructure and equipment, scarcity of lodging, and a wide variety of pupils in opposition to few instructors.
It is a composition of such demanding situations and many others that set a stark contrast among urban and rural colleges.
“We take a seat on bricks and at the floor at instances. This has made it very hard for us to put it in writing. Now we had been requested to buy lawn chairs to take a seat directly to cope with the lack of desks at our school,” stated Moody Bwalya, a Grade 10 scholar at Lucinda Secondary School.
She narrated that lack of computers in the college has also been some other challenge the students had been grappling with.

Monday lamented that she has problems in know-how the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) situation because the facility isn’t to be had at her faculty.
She believes that a great deal has now not been completed to enhance get entry to high-quality schooling in rural schools. This is the motive for most scholars to become bored in completing a second degree of training in rural areas.

“It is tough for a scholar in rural areas to perform enormously properly in a realistic situation compared to someone in a city area.
“We only see most of the apparatus used in technological know-how subjects in books and throughout the time for the exam, and this makes it tough for us scholars to narrate what we analyze in class to the practical scenario,” said Moody.
For Jackson Kalima, a Grade 12 student at Maya Secondary School, loss of electricity at the faculty is a nightmare he’s failing to accept and get used to.

It could be very tough for him to observe as he draws in the direction of the very last exam that’s coming in 3 months.
“I can not manage to pay to shop for candles and observe from home within the nighttime. It becomes going to be easy for me if our faculty had electricity. I don’t manipulate to have a look at at some point of weekends because I spend a maximum of my time supporting my parents in the field,” said Jackson.
He expressed uncertainty over his readiness for the oncoming exam and feels that something urgent needs to be accomplished to help destiny college students.
Lack of a library at Maya Secondary School is a great subject to Bernard Musonda, a Grade eleven student.

He believes that a library enables students to enhance their level of expertise and the purchase of more knowledge.
Bernard believes that the reading tradition amongst scholars in rural faculties may be very negative due to the lack of libraries and up-to-date analyzing substances.

“Access to textbooks is a extreme assignment this is affecting our performance. The situation is even more challenging because of the loss of a library. The bad analyzing culture is an issue of issue, and it requires pressing attention,” he stated.
Lucinda Secondary School Chockstone Mambwe, the headteacher, is concerned with approximately the dearth of teachers in the college.
He stated the school has over one thousand students against a trainer populace of less than 30.

We have only 22 instructors against over 1,000 pupils, and it is not smooth for a instructor to train nicely due to the better pupil-teacher ratio. Pupils have unique levels of understanding and acquisition of information,” Mr. Mpambwe stated.