‘Together we can curb exam leakages’

KITWE District Education Standards Officer - General Inspection - Catherine Kunda says parents have a bigger role to place in eliminating examination malpractice.

Ms Kunda said examination malpractices were a source of worry to the education system and therefore appealed to parents to get involved in shaping their children’s future.

She was speaking during a stakeholders meeting at Copperbelt University with parents and guardians of learners from different schools.

Ms Kunda said it was worrying that some parents were allowing their children to be in possession of leaked examination papers as a way of helping them to pass an examination.

She said letting the learners use leaked examination papers was not only affecting the future of children but also derailed the country's development.

The educationalist added that parents should monitor their children's access to television, phones and how much leisure time they had.

At the same meeting, Kitwe District Education Board Secretary, Mwape Nkosha, said he was optimistic that with the introduction of specialisation in primary education would boost the performance of teachers.

He said teachers would be able to deliver lessons according to their stream as opposed to one teacher taking all the subjects.

Mr Nkosha said specialisation came about after Government’s realisation that teachers in primary schools had a workload of up to six different subjects to a single class which made it difficult for them deliver to full expectation.

He has since encourage parents to take advantage of the reduction of school fees and take their children back to school.

And Wusakile Secondary School PTA Chairperson, Bishop Matongo, said parents and teachers must work together to fight examination malpractice.