{"id":202613,"date":"2025-07-17T02:26:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T00:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambians-applaud-government-performance-on-education-see-free-education-policy-as-beneficial\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T02:26:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T00:26:12","slug":"zambians-applaud-government-performance-on-education-see-free-education-policy-as-beneficial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambians-applaud-government-performance-on-education-see-free-education-policy-as-beneficial\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambians Applaud Government Performance On Education, See Free Education Policy As Beneficial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">Eight in 10 families say they have benefited from free schooling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">Key findings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Schools are unevenly distributed across the country: The share of Zambians who live within walking distance of a school ranges from about nine in 10 in the Copperbelt (92%), Northern (91%), and North-Western (90%) provinces to seven in 10 (70%) in Eastern Zambia. Rural residents are far less likely than urbanites to have a school nearby (72% vs. 94%).<\/li>\n<li>Among adults who had contact with a public school during the&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507150006.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight in 10 families say they have benefited from free schooling. Key findings Schools are unevenly distributed across the country: The share of Zambians who live within walking distance of a school ranges from about nine in 10 in the Copperbelt (92%), Northern (91%), and North-Western (90%) provinces to seven in 10 (70%) in Eastern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":202614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,20066,23669,1632,6544,6427,257,8553,6470,254,881,9005],"class_list":["post-202613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-applaud","tag-beneficial","tag-education","tag-free","tag-government","tag-news","tag-performance","tag-policy","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zambia-news","tag-zambians"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}