Chalimbana University

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Chalimbana University is a university in Zambia which was born from the original Jeanes School which was opened in 1939, as a Jeanes Training Centre for community teachers. It is located 57 km east of Lusaka in Chongwe district.

In the 1950s the college was affiliated to the University of Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia as Chalimbana Teacher Training College; training both primary and secondary school teachers. It has an enriched curriculum in Mathematics, Science, Languages, Arts, Business, and Technology with recreational athletics, music, drama, visual arts and exciting community excursions.

The college became exclusively in-service in 1970 to service primary school teachers and administrators and was renamed NISTCOL. In 1975 Advanced Primary Course (APC) and Advanced Industrial Arts (AIA) were introduced. These were upgrading courses for primary school teachers who had the necessary school certificate qualifications. These were one-year courses.

ZMLusaka, Zambia

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Profile added by Ano Shumba on 13 Jun 2016
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