Expenditure and Service Delivery Survey in Education 2002
Zambia, 2002
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ZMB_2002_ESDS_v01_M
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Government of the Republic of Zambia, World Bank
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Main problem: third (s9q3)
Data file: generalschool_final
Overview
Valid:
177
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Start:
1608
End:
1687
Width:
80
Format:
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Literal question
Please list the three main problems affecting the delivery of education in this school.
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| Adverse economic conditions and depreciation of the kwacha has reduced donor ca | |
| Beuracracy (Red Tape | |
| Burglary | |
| Classrooms need rehabilitation | |
| Cost of material is high and the money received is not enough | |
| Critical shortage of teachers accommodation | |
| Dilapidated classrooms | |
| Distance | |
| Donor should supervise their projects directly if the standard in the country ar | |
| During second term of every year boys tend to go fishing in the various camps he | |
| Early marriages in ace sof girl child, girl get married at the ages of 12 and 13 | |
| Education materials and poor infrastructure | |
| Equipment - Science kit, sports kit | |
| Few classrooms | |
| Few teachers | |
| Grant of 3 million not enough, we need about 10 million | |
| High poverty levels among the community | |
| Ignorance (Parents do not encourage and assist children in school work and atten | |
| Inadequate accommodation cupled with poor maintenance | |
| Inadequate accomodation | |
| Inadequate desks and staff | |
| Inadequate infrastructure | |
| Inadequate infrastructure, no lab, no H.E, No Industrial arts | |
| Inadequate staff | |
| Inadequate staff and poor teachers accommodation | |
| Inadequate teaching and learning materials | |
| Inadequate teaching materials | |
| Infrastructure of the school is not pleasing | |
| Insufficient classrooms - we have only 5 classrooms instead of 9 | |
| Insufficient desks for the pupils | |
| Insufficient learning nad teaching materials | |
| Insufficient teaching ans learning materialls | |
| Insufficient teaching materials | |
| Insufficinet teaching and learning materials | |
| L;ack of Staffroom and transport | |
| Lack of teachers' accommodation | |
| Lack of accommodation | |
| Lack of accommodation and the school is very far and ther is no ready transport | |
| Lack of accommodation fotr staff | |
| Lack of acommodation | |
| Lack of classroom accommodatrion for laboratoeis, classroooms, home economics, s | |
| Lack of classroomss | |
| Lack of educational and teaching materials and transport to and from Mpongwe | |
| Lack of electricity in school and teacher's houses | |
| Lack of equipment in practical subjects like Home Economics | |
| Lack of land for practical lessons e.g agriculture science and production unit | |
| Lack of motivation for members of staff | |
| Lack of motivation to teachers due to low salary and late payments | |
| Lack of power (Electricity/Solar) | |
| Lack of reliable transport to and from DEO's offices | |
| Lack of role models frm community surrounding the school | |
| Lack of stationery machines such as typewriter, photocopier machines and compute | |
| Lack of storage facilities | |
| Lack of teacher motivatiopn by the Ministry of education | |
| Lack of teachers, poor infrastructure, lack of learing materials really affects | |
| Lack of teaches accommodation the school only has 11 houses against 32 teachers | |
| Lack of teaching and learning materials | |
| Lack of teaching materials | |
| Lack of teaching materials e.g text books especially at secondary section | |
| Lack of teaching materisls e.g manilla papers, filter pens and text books affect | |
| Lack of transport by the Ministry of Education must be ruled out, lack of text b | |
| Lack of water due to old blolcked pipes | |
| Lack school transport | |
| Lacl of teacher due to indequate accommodation | |
| Lakc of classroom accommodation | |
| Lakc of electricity | |
| Less infrastructure e.g. classrooms, leading to overcrowding in classes | |
| Less materials | |
| Loans, funeral grants, poor state of classrooms | |
| Low academic performance due to long walking distances and hunger | |
| Low morale among teachers because of poor salaries and no housing allowance | |
| Low teacher's slaalries | |
| More orphans who as unable to pay PTA funds | |
| Most parents do not encourage their children to come to school thus, their child | |
| Most pupils have negative attitude towards school, as a result most pupils don' | |
| Negative attitude by the community towards eduatio ladig to a lot of dropouts | |
| Negative attitude of the community towards teachers as they look at them as pove | |
| Negative community participation in developmental projects, No toilets, eratic | |
| No Electricity | |
| No adequate furniture, teachers houses classrooms | |
| No electricity | |
| No enough desks | |
| No facilities for teaching science and other practical subjects | |
| No incentives for teachers as they teach more than they are supposed to | |
| No infrastructure | |
| No laboratory or industrial art rooms | |
| No library facilities, therefore children in the school are not exposed to readi | |
| No sports equipment | |
| No teaching materials e.g text books | |
| No transport or road network | |
| No transport, the school is far away for collection of materials from DEOs offic | |
| No water and electricity at the school | |
| Non availabil;ity of learning and teachin aids | |
| Non availabilit of teaching materials in schools | |
| None payment of PTA fees | |
| Not enough books/desks for the pupils | |
| Over enrollement making it difficult for teachers | |
| Over enrollment | |
| Parent teachers relationships is not all that good. | |
| Parents need their pupils to get motivated at early stage | |
| Paying of general workers employed by the PTA | |
| Poor accommodation | |
| Poor condition of service and meagre salaries for teachers | |
| Poor conditions of service for teachers | |
| Poor infrastructure | |
| Poor infrastructure (buildings) | |
| Poor infrastructure (very poor) | |
| Poor infrastructure need renovation | |
| Poor infrastrusture, No library, science laboratory, home economics classroom | |
| Poor sanitation, delapidated building and desks not conducive to learning | |
| Poor state of building (infrastructure) | |
| Poverty and orphanage is a big problem in the area | |
| Pupils absenteeism | |
| Pupils who live in far away places do not come to school every day | |
| Salaries are just too low and late payments demoralises the teachers | |
| School has no furniture | |
| School is also facing financial problems | |
| School needs to be rehabilitated and upgraded to basic school | |
| School textbooks | |
| Scrapping of PTA funds has brought a lot of problems since it used to supplement | |
| Short supply of teaching and learnng materials | |
| Shortage of VIP latrines | |
| Shortage of materials | |
| Shortage of school buildings and transport problem | |
| Shortage of staff houses and power | |
| Shortage of staff leading to higher work loads for teachers because of shortage | |
| Shortage of teachers | |
| Shortage of teachers and teachers accommodation | |
| Shortage of teaching and learning materials | |
| Shortage of text books | |
| Social Problems (parents are being paid) | |
| Special rooms limited I.e for optionals | |
| Staffing is a problem, there are only two teachers against 7 classes | |
| Staffing, currently terchers over strech resulting in pupils not getting enough | |
| Teacher motivation factor | |
| Teachers accommodation | |
| Teachers are poorly paid hence not mortivated | |
| Teachers long illnesses | |
| Teaching and l;earning materials are not enough | |
| Teaching of children is still a problems because of not having enough text book | |
| The comminity has a lot of apathy in community participation | |
| The community is poverty striken hence pupils do not attend lessons regularly, t | |
| The desks are not enough to cater for all the pupils | |
| The genral approach to education by most pupils leaves much to be desired becaus | |
| The re-introduction of free education has bropught a lot of suffering because th | |
| The school has no enough funds for operational purposes | |
| The school lacks financial support, especially after the introduction of free ed | |
| The sharig of school material and grants are not done according to size of schoo | |
| The shortage of staff and shortage of furniture and communication (e.g phones) | |
| There is a shortage of staff accommodation ther is no borehole at school. Teach | |
| Too many female teachers who are not regular in attendance | |
| Transport (vehicle) to be used for collecting teaching and learning materials | |
| Transport for teachers | |
| Transport problems which leads to the school; not getting materials on time | |
| Understaffing | |
| Vandalism | |
| Very few class rooms | |
| Very few desks to carter for all grades | |
| Very poor infrastructure/buildings | |
| Water situation is eratic | |
| Water source is realy a problem as the school does not have its own source | |
| We don’t have enough learning and teaching materials | |
| Work in the farms is disturbing the education of pupils | |
| community is not very coorperative | |
| finances are not enough to run the school | |
| funds | |
| inadequate accommodation for member sof staff, which discourages teachers to com | |
| inadequate teaching and learning materials | |
| lack f science laboratory | |
| lack of adeqaute sanitation | |
| lack of skilled manpower | |
| low marale among teachers | |
| school infrastructure is very poor and no teachers houses |
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.
Interviewer instructions
Please outline the three most important problems affecting the delivery of education in this school.