Wed, 03 May 2017 12:08:41 +0000 THE fact that course materials distributed in schools are rigorously evaluated before they are authorised by the Curriculum Development Centre (CDC) to ensure they meet the required standard, does not answer the crux of the matter which Zambian publishers are raising about the manner they are shabbily treated by the Ministry of Education. Zambian publishers and other stakeholders want to know why Government is awarding contracts worth millions of United States dollars to foreign entities for the procurement of school textbooks when equally highly equipped and technically competent local publishing houses are closing down for lack of business, throwing hundreds of workers into the street. They want to know what is so special about these Zambian registered foreign publishing companies which have been winning these procurement contracts over the past several years in spite of protests and petitions by local publishers to the Ministry of Education. If indeed […]
