ZIALE EXCUSES: TOTAL RUBBISH – CBU

By GIDEON NYENDWA
INSINUATIONS that universities have been supplying ZIALE half-baked students are total rubbish, the institution just needs to self-introspect and find solutions to the anomalies hindering good performance, Copperbelt University Vice Chancellor Professor Naison Ngoma has said.
Prof. Ngoma said that it was inconsiderate for people to insinuate that ZIALE had been producing poor results because universities had been supplying half-baked law graduates.
He said that it was important that ZIALE reexamine itself to figure out to what extent their own systems had been affecting the performance of their learners.
“There must be something missing. They need to examine themselves very carefully,” Prof Ngoma said in an interview.
Prof. Ngoma said that it was necessary for ZIALE and other actors who contribute to the institution’s output to introspect and check their curriculum.
He also said that there was a need for ZIALE to check and find out whether the actors that contribute to the output of the institution were offering a syllabus that was aligned with what the institution was offering.
Prof. Ngoma said it was important for ZIALE to double their efforts to make sure that learning takes place so that they could better the results.
He also said that the teaching of any subject follows a particular curriculum that had received due diligence, put down and structured after various consultations from relevant stakeholders. That was why it was unusual for a university to produce half-baked students.
Prof. Ngoma said that they also have qualified lecturers that had been certified to teach on particular disciplines that was why he found it inconsiderable to say that universities had been supplying half-baked students to ZIALE.
Meanwhile he said that he would not support the nullification of any exam because the sanctity of any exams should always be held.
And his counterpart, University of Zambia Vice Chancellor Prof Luke Mumba had also rubbished accretions suggesting that the failure rate at the institution was because universities had been supplying ZIALE half-baked graduates.
Prof. Mumba said that reports that UNZA had been producing half-baked graduate were unfounded and incorrect, noting that the results ZIALE had been producing raises questions on the credibility of examiners at the institution.