Kitwe College of Education

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• Decentralised financial management in Zambian basic schools.
• An assessment of factors causing employees’ absenteeism from work among health workers in rural parts of Zambia: a case study of Chadiza district.
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• Challenges and prospects of education in correctional facilities in Zambia: a study of selected prisons.
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• Comparing course syllabi from A to Z: examining the contexts, content, and concerns for social foundations of education in Australia and Zambia. In A. E. Mazawi & M. Stack (Eds.). Course Syllabi in faculties of education across the world: bodies of knowledge and their discontents (pp 38–50). Sydney: Bloomsbury, ISBN 978-1-3500-9425-3 (hardback) 978-1-3500-9427-7 (online).
• Financial management challenges confronting higher learning institutions of learning under the decentralisation policy in Zambia: the case of the national in-service training.
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• Illuminating the academic and socio-economic implications of inadequate boarding facilities among students in public tertiary institutions: a case of the University of Zambia.
• Zambia scoping study. In H. Doyle, A.M. Barrett & A. Reeves (Eds.), improving the qality of teaching in secondary education: scoping studies for Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania, Côte D'Ivoire and Senegal (pp. 4-32). Bristol: Bristol University.
• Shifting from government bursaries to a loan scheme in higher education: exploring the Zambian experience in student financial aid.
• An investigation into the effect of organizational culture on strategy implementation: a case of investrust bank of Zambia.
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• Integration of HIV and AIDS in higher education curriculum: a case study of an HIV course in the school of education of the University of Zambia.
• Navigation strategies by women into decision-making positions in the Ministry of education, Zambia.
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• Education in Zambia at fifty years of independence and beyond: history, current status and contemporary issues.
  All Chapter Abstracts are online
• Education in austerity: exploring parental participation in supporting community schools in two villages of eastern Zambia.
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• Exploring factors that perpetuate child marriage and strategies to prevent them.
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• Trade-off Issues in teacher education at the University of Zambia: growing student numbers and the quality of teacher education processes. International Journal of teaching and learning in Africa 3(1), 82-86.
• Re-examining the role of teacher trade unions‟ in promoting welfare and sustained livelihood for their members: a case of teacher trade unions in Lusaka, Zambia.
  Journal Article
• The relationship between course management and examination attrition rates among undergraduate medical students at the university of Zambia.
  The findings point to the urgent need to revise or review the course content of several programmes to align it with the time allocated. Furthermore, the Department of Medical Education and Development should consider organising specific pedagogical training programmes for existing and newly-employed academic staff.
• Internal monitoring and evaluation of teaching in secondary schools of Kabwe district in Central province, Zambia: challenges and possible solutions.
  The study recommends Head teachers to undergo training in educational management and administration, to increase frequency of internal monitoring and evaluation, roles of head teachers to be reduced to administration only, to introduce peer to peer monitoring, to encourage monitoring through intertwining of secondary schools in the district, and teachers to regularly attend Continuous Professional Development (CPD).
• Examining street level bureaucrats views on the application of the law of absenteeism and child marriages in Zambia’s education sector.
  Article. In order to reduce absenteeism in schools, it is important to implement the law of absenteeism and early marriages in Zambia.
• The ontology of mention: contexts, contests, and constructs of academic identity among the University of Zambia faculty. FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education, 4, (3), 102-116. ISSN: 2326-3873.
• Exploring institutional measures of mitigating sexual harassment cases by male teachers: a case of selected secondary schools in Luapula province.
  Article. There is need to establish institutional policies, breaking the silence in schools and communities and instituting reporting laws on sexual harassment.
• Rurality and student transitioning in higher education: an exploration of views of University of Zambia students.
• HIV and AIDS workplace policy: an implementation assessment of strategies in selected secondary schools of Lusaka and Northern provinces.
• The relationship between course management and examination attrition rates among undergraduate medical students at the University of Zambia
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• An assessment on the implementation of performance management in Jesuit owned institutions: a case study of St Ignatius college.
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