Sun, 21 Jan 2018 09:26:21 +0000 AN increasing number of Zambians, including some politicians are taking the short cut of paying for academic achievements like doctorates and professorships and insisting they be addressed as such. Parliament was recently told by Higher Education Minister Professor Nkandu Luo who emphasised that honourary degrees were not recognised anywhere in the world as a qualification, but were seen as an honour to somebody who had excelled in a particular area. Prof Luo also directed that the Zambia Qualification Authority (ZQA) ought to put an end to people getting fake honourary degrees. Prof Luo said that it was shameful that some people had gone to an extent of buying degrees online so that they could be called Doctors and be able to stand for general elections as per the flawed new Zambian constitutional prerequisite whose lacuna does not take into account the Examination Council of Zambia (ECZ) and ZQA’s role […]
