State Starts Delivery of Books On New Curriculum

GOVERNMENT says it has started distributiing books for the revised junior education curriculum in all provinces.
The Ministry of Education has introduced a new curriculum in which civics, geography and history have been fused into one subject, social studies at Junior Secondary level.
Ministry of Education spokesperson Hilary Chipango said in an interview that Government started distributing books for the new curriculum last week.
He said vehicles have been dispatched to distribute books adding, all schools around the country will soon have them.
Mr Chipango said the delay in distribution of books of the new syllabus was as a result of a court injunction filed by publishers it engaged to distribute the books.
“Publishing houses filed in an injunction after Government only engaged them to distribute books and not in printing them. They wanted to be engaged in printing the books as well,” Mr Chipango said.
He said Government was however happy that the court ruled in its favour.
Teachers and pupils in various schools have expressed concern over delayed distribution of books for the new curriculum at junior secondary level.
Some teachers said this will affect the performance of pupils hence the need for the Ministry of Education to speed up the process.
A check in some public Schools around Lusaka revealed that teachers were still using the old text books instead of the revised ones.