Mukuyu Primary School in Chief Mwanchingwala’s area of Mazabuka District in Southern Province has for a second year failed to admit Grade one pupils due to poor classroom blocks.
Zanis reports that, in this regard, the primary school at the moment only starts from grade three with grade one and two being absent.
Mazabuka District Commissioner Eugene Munyama and Education Board Secretary Effie Hamamba have confirmed the development in separate interviews in Mazabuka District yesterday.
Mr. Munyama says that the school has again this year like the case was last year not managed to enroll any pupils in grade one.
He has disclosed that it has been difficult to enroll grade one pupils for the past two years at the primary school owing to advice given by building experts from the Ministry of Education who described the classrooms where the pupils would have been learning from as inhabitable.
Mr. Munyama however stated that government is aware of the situation prevailing at the school whose structures are inherited after a white farmer who used to live their departed from the area.