Are you here to find out how much nursing colleges and schools in Zambia are charging for tuition fees? If that is want you are searching for, we have brought you complete information on the charges for tuition by schools and colleges of nursing in Zambia for the 2024/2025 academic year.
NOTE: New and returning students of nursing colleges/ schools in Zambia are advised to review their school fees before proceeding to make payment.
Before the introduction of unified tuition fees, nursing schools and colleges in Zambia had individual fees structure. These fee structures varied, as some of these schools charged students high for tuition, while others charged less. This made the government stepped in and proposed a unified fee structure for nursing colleges and schools in the country.
Nursing Colleges and Schools in Zambia Fees 2024/2025
The government has agreed with the General Nursing Council of Zambia that nursing tuition fees are charged at around K8, 500 per annum.
Health Minister Dr. Chitalu Chilufya said the government was concerned that tuition fees in some nursing schools were as high as K18, 000 per year, which he said was beyond many families.
Other nursing training schools charge tuition fees between K10, 000 and K13,000 per year.
And Dr Chilufya indicated that the decision to harmonize tuition and interview fees was arrived at in consultation with the General Nursing Council of Zambia.
The Minister was speaking when he commissioned the Practicum accommodation facility at Mansa General Hospital in Mansa today.
He added that public nursing training schools would now be required to charge K100 as interview fees from between K250 and K350.
The Ministry of Health targets to recruit 30,000 nurses by 2020, with 20,000 nurses having been recruited so far.
The Practicum facilities commissioned in Mansa and Solwezi General Hospitals have been constructed at a cost of K2.6 million with the support of the Swedish government.
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