By GIDEON NYENDWAZIALE lecturers are to blame for the high failure rate the institution has been experiencing, Zambia Open University (ZAOU) Vice Chancellor Professor Richard Siaciwena has said.The results caused a nationwide uproar when only one student out of 395 managed to clear the ZIALE exams.Prof. Siaciwena said that the pass rate at ZIALE had been going down every year which should be a source of concern for the lecturers at the institution.He said in education, the principle was simple because if the students fail that means the lecturers had failed themselves.“When such a number of people fail, the problem is with the lecturers,” he said.Prof. Siaciwena said there was need for serious investigation of the source of the problem objectively and thoroughly by using different experts because the excuse that ZIALE had been supplied with half-baked students was wrong.“For me I heap all the blame on ZIALE,” Prof Siaciwena said.He said that the reasons […]
99.9 per cent Ziale failure blamed on lecturers
