Mon, 22 Jan 2018 14:18:22 +0000 By CHITE MTONGA HIGHER Education Minister, Nkandu Luo has threatened stiff penalties for employees propagating indiscipline in institutions of higher learning. The caution comes barely a few days after 44 Copperbelt University-CBU- Lecturers were interrogated in Kitwe for unlawful confinement of vice Chancellor Professor Naison Ngoma whom they accused of failing to manage the University. Professor Luo sounded the warning in Lusaka on Saturday during a stakeholders’ consultative meeting to deliberate on corrective measures that would bring sanity to the two public Universities, University of Zambia (UNZA) and Copperbelt University (CBU). She noted that the role of unions in public universities was increasingly becoming questionable. With an apparent reference to CBU, Prof Luo disclosed that the unions wrote to her office to explain why they wanted Prof Ngoma out of office which the Higher Education Minister argues, the allegations were unfounded and unreasonable. “In their letter they complained that […]
