North Western Province Permanent Secretary Willies Mangimela has urged teachers in the province to prepare pupils in examination classes adequately as exams draws near.

North Western Province Permanent Secretary Willies Mangimela has urged teachers in the province to prepare pupils in examination classes adequately as exams draws near.

Speaking at media briefing on Wednesday last week, Mr Mangimela  encouraged both teachers from primary and secondary school teachers to take advantage of the remaining days to revise with pupils in the preparations of the exams.

Mr Mangimela says teachers should cover up on the topics which they may not have taught during lessons.

He adds that preparedness amongst school pupils will help to avoid engaging cases if malpractices during exams.

''as PS am encouraging all the teachers at primary school level, secondary school level to work very hard, sit down with their pupils to revise and cover the topics which they did not cover and also to avoid cheating'' Mr Mangimela said.

''because it is not good for the teachers to call children and open the papers for the exams or engage in leakages'' he added.

The permanent secretary says the provincial administration will work closely with the office of the provincial education officer and those tasked to deal with exams in ensuring that there are free from malpractices.

''government has  instructed that all permanent secretaries to be stakeholders and look out for all incidences of malpractices. we should work together the provincial education officer  and all the people dealing with exams'' Mr Mangimela said.

Mr Mangimela has cautioned that whoever will be found engaging in malpractices during exams the police will arrest such a one weather pupil or teacher.

He has encouraged pupils and teachers to work together in good a manner and not in malpractices.

The Permanent Secretary has further encouraged the general public to join in the fight against malpractices during exams by being whistle blowers in the quest to preserve the standards of exams in the country.

'' Am encouraging on lookers to be whistle blowers so that we preserve the standard of our examination in our country'' he added.

Meanwhile Manyama Primary school head teacher Esau Kambongu says the reduction of schools fees by government through the ministry of general education  has left an impact on the operations of the school.

Mr Kambongu says the reduction of school fees led to an increase of enrollment of pupils at the school.

However, he has noted that the school has inadequate resources available for them to meet the demands of the number of pupils.

Mr Kambongu has reviewed that the pupils are now sharing one desk against five, adding that the school materials are also scarce.

He has further disclosed that the school will engage itself in the production unity during the 2019/2020 farming season with support from the parents.

Mr Kambongu says doing so will help the school to meet its needs when they selling the maize.
meanwhile,National Union of Public and Private Educators of Zambia have cautioned teachers not to fall prey to temptations of engaging themselves in malpractices during  ongoing  the 2019 exams.

NUPPEZ north western province chairperson Dave   Kandela has told Solwezi FCC radio news today that during exams there are a lot of temptations that come as result of conducting such a national event.

Mr Kandela says as union they do not want to hear reports of teachers engaging themselves of malpractices but follow the examination guidelines.

He says teachers should realise that taking interest in engaging exam malpractices will result into stiff punishment as guided by the examination code of conduct.

 Mr Kandela further says that as the union they are confident that the teachers were on the ground and prepared the pupils adequately for exams. 

picture courtesy: of Lusaka Times.