Category: Press Statement

Zambia National Education Coalition is delighted to join the rest of the world in commemorating International Day of the Girl Child which falls on 11th October. This international commemoration reminds us to focus attention on the need to address the challenges that girls are facing in our country as well as to promote girls’ empowerment […]

Zambia National Education Coalition (ZANEC) is pleased to join our teachers in commemorating World Teacher’s Day which falls on 5th October. Teachers are very important professionals in the education sector and therefore ZANEC always looks forward to celebrating them. Teachers play a significant role in modelling our learners both academically and socially. It is vital […]

The 81 Member Organizations of the Zambia National Educational Coalition (ZANEC) would like to express their disappointment over the continued neglect of the education sector by government as demonstrated by the Ministers of Finance since 2016 by continuously reducing the budgetary allocation to the education and skills sector. The last four Ministers of Finance have […]

The Zambia National Education Coalition (ZANEC) is looking forward to the presentation of the 2021 National Budget by the Minister of Finance tomorrow Friday 25th September 2020 with great expectations. We know that a number of challenges will characterize the revenue side of our 2021 National Budget given the uncertainties brought about by the partial […]

The Zambia National Education Coalition (ZANEC) has reviewed both Zambia’s Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) framework produced in 2013 as well as the teachers’ guides and learners’ booklets for grades 5 to 12 designed to operationalize the CSE framework in Zambia. Findings from the review of our CSE materials indicate that the current content is appropriate […]

The Zambia National Education Coalition [ZANEC] is extremely pleased with the government decision announced by the President of the Republic of Zambia His Excellence Dr. Edgar Chagwa Lungu in his state of the nation address to reopen all schools and institutions of higher learning in Zambia between 14th and 28th September, 2020. We are glad […]

The Zambia National Education Coalition (ZANEC) is concerned with the media reports concerning the action that the Teaching Council of Zambia (TCZ) is planning to take against the 3,000 teachers that are yet to get their practicing licenses. ZANEC is of the view that the proposal to prosecute teachers who are not registered by the […]

The Zambia National Education Coalition (ZANEC) is concerned that schools have remained closed from 20th March 2020 to date. We need to state from the offset that although the idea to close all schools in March was important and strategic, the continued closure of schools for five months now has a great potential of bringing […]

The President of the Republic of Zambia, His Excellency Dr. Edgar Chagwa Lungu, during his National Address held on 8th May 2020 directed that all primary and secondary school examination classes must re-open on 1stJune 2020. This landmark pronouncement which was made in order to avert an education crisis resulting from the prolonged closure of […]