Education Fact Sheet

Minister of education: Hon. Dr John Phiri

Education System/structure of education

Zambia’s Education System according to the education policy comprises Primary Education running from grades 1-7, Secondary School Education running from grade 8-12 and Tertiary Education.

However, the Ministry  has also been mandated to run Early Childhood Education (ECE) Thus, Primary education should run from early childhood up to grade 7.This transition has brought out a lot of challenges in terms of inadequacies in infrastructure, institutional and human capacity including critical shortage of teachers especially in rural areas.

The other level, Tertiary Education, includes universities and colleges

 

Enrolment in 2005*

		Female	Male	Total
Primary	Gross enrolment rate	117.2	120.7	119.0
	Net enrolment rate	94.4	93.7	94.0
Secondary	Gross enrolment rate	40.6	45.7	43.1
	Net enrolment rate	38.1	43.7	40.9

*latest data as of March 2009 from UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
**UNESCO Institute for Statistics estimation.