POST INDEPENDENCE POLICIES

1. FOCUS ON LEARNING 1992

 Ensure that the focus in all schools was on
learning
 To expand and rehabilitate existing schools and
equip schools with books and other kinds of
educational materials
 To transform the secondary selection
examination so that it could serve truly
educational objectives
 Improve Teacher Education
 Motivate teachers
 Enhance monitoring of quality education
 Create conditions for effective coordination of
policies, plans and programs
 Strengthen school heads in decision making
 Promoted Special Education Needs Education
2. 1996 EDUCATING OUR FUTURE
 9 years of basic education
 Decentralize education in terms of decision
making
 Increase access to education
 Provide quality education to allcitizen
 Resource mobilization
  To produce a learner who is fully developed in
both theoretical and practical areas
 Increase access to education and life skills
training
3. BASIC EDUCATION SUB-SECTOR INVESTMENT
PROGRAM (BESSIP)
 To strengthen access and equity in basic
education from grades 1-7
 Develop a working model for Zambia which is
more effective,
 co-coordinated support from international
development agencies.
4. MINISTRY OF EDUCATION STRATEGIES PLAN (2003-
2007)
 To improve access to basic education (grade 1-
7) in terms of equity and gender.
 To improve quality and efficiency in high school
and tertiary education
 Effective decentralization of decision-making,
procurement and financial management to
districts and schools.
 Management and mitigation of the impact of
HIV and AIDS and COVID_-19.
5. THE VISION 2030
  The vision 2030 is basically looking at how
Zambia should provide quality Education which
is more responsive to the Zambian environment.

1990 JOMTEIN CONFERENCE

OBJECTIVES
 To harmonize various UN conventions in the
world regarding the provision of education and
those of human rights
 To re-affirm the role of UNESCO as WORLD
EDUCATION CO-ORDINATOR
 To make a world declaration on Education for All
(EFA)
 To share at international level, the content,
concept, rationale and framework of Education
for All.
 To adopt a common stand and approach on
Education as a human right.
THEMES
 Everyone has the right to education, education shall
be free at least in the elementary and fundamental
stages
 Elementary education shall be compulsory
  Technical and professional education shall be made
available and higher education shall be equally
accessible to all on the basis of merit
 Parents have the right to choose the kind of
education for their children
 Education shall be directed or used to the full
development of the human personality and to the
strengthening of respect for human rights and
fundamental freedoms.
 Education should promote understanding, tolerance
and friendship among all nations, racial or religious
group and shall further the activities of the United
Nations for the maintenance of peace.
2000 SENEGAL (DAKAR) CONFERENCES
OBJECTIVES:
follow up on African Regional conference on EFA
 To effectively domesticate the resolutions of the
Jomtien conference to regional and individual
country level in Africa
 To present reports of activities, plans and practical
steps taken and put in place by individual African
countries after Thailand conference.
 To compare notes on the concepts of EFA, from the
African perspective.
 To draw a charter for member states of the African
Union to ratify as their guide for full implementation
of EFA

RESOLUTIONS
 African states to provide free education to all their
citizens from grade 1 to 7
 To promote girl education and equal access and
equity
 To put measure to increase access, retention as
well as completion rates
 To uphold and ratify all UNO conventions to the
rights of the child in all aspects of Human
endeavor
 To finance and invest heavily in basic education
through teacher training, infrastructure
development, material production
 Age of pupil should not be a barrier to accessing
education
 All member states to implement the articles of the
Jomtien 1990 conference.
 Education networking to be promoted among
African nation and outside.