{"id":4700,"date":"2026-06-22T16:49:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/?p=4700"},"modified":"2026-06-22T16:49:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:49:28","slug":"government-happy-with-progress-made-under-the-catch-up-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/?p=4700","title":{"rendered":"GOVERNMENT HAPPY WITH PROGRESS MADE UNDER THE CATCH-UP PROGRAMME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ministry of Education Permanent Secretary Kelvin Mambwe says Government is encouraged by the progress being recorded under the Catch-Up Programme, which is helping learners in schools acquire foundational literacy and numeracy skills.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Mambwe notes that Zambia has drawn valuable lessons from India\u2019s education system, particularly the Catch-Up programme which has contributed to improving learning outcomes among learners.<\/p>\n<p>The Permanent Secretary said this when an Indian delegation on education led by Sarvendra Singh paid a courtesy call on him at his office in Lusaka today.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Indian delegation leader Sarvendra Singh said reports and recent research findings indicate that the Catch-Up Programme has achieved encouraging results despite challenges encountered during implementation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ministry of Education Permanent Secretary Kelvin Mambwe says Government is encouraged by the progress being recorded under the Catch-Up Programme, which is helping learners in schools acquire foundational literacy and numeracy skills. Dr Mambwe notes that Zambia has drawn valuable lessons from India\u2019s education system, particularly the Catch-Up programme which has contributed to improving learning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4701,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,17],"tags":[35,26,88,25],"class_list":["post-4700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-latestnewsright","tag-education","tag-ineverycornerofzambia","tag-ministryofeducation","tag-zanis","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4702,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4700\/revisions\/4702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}