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Accra, Ghana \u2014 “Foundational learning, some time back – during my time – was well done,” said Honorable Harry Kamboni, Member of Parliament for Kalomo Central in Southern Zambia. “But as we went on, it was neglected.”<\/p>\n
Kamboni\u00a0said that as Zambia’s population grew, infrastructure and teacher numbers failed to keep pace, leading to overcrowded classrooms and widening learning gaps. “I visited a school in my constituency with about 1,500 students – and 700 of them were in catch-up classes,” he…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Accra, Ghana \u2014 “Foundational learning, some time back – during my time – was well done,” said Honorable Harry Kamboni, Member of Parliament for Kalomo Central in Southern Zambia. “But as we went on, it was neglected.” Kamboni\u00a0said that as Zambia’s population grew, infrastructure and teacher numbers failed to keep pace, leading to overcrowded classrooms […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":212017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671823:38919d5c82e6b2d2df19e55488adcb80:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[52745,258,256,6935,8438,4345,5265,7260,257,254,4709,881,4396],"class_list":["post-212016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-adea2025","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-build","tag-child","tag-fight","tag-foundation","tag-mps","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news","tag-zambian"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671823:38919d5c82e6b2d2df19e55488adcb80:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212016","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=212016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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