However, such challenges run alongside steady progress: one institution (UEM) has already started implementing distance learning, supplemented by face-to-face contact sessions, with an initial intake of 27 students.
The assessment revealed that despite steady effort, training institutions faced a number of challenges in their attempts to increase the number and quality of graduates.
Kudyela pictures a Zambia characterized by high and steady economic growth, institutions that are efficient and highly adaptable, prices of commodities are stable and favourable.
Scenario-A country with high and steady economic growth but institutions that are weak and unresponsive.
-A country characterized by high and steady economic growth and institutions that are efficient and highly adaptable.
The intolerant climate can be seen in the growing incidents of violence against minorities, particularly Christian missionaries, the steady takeover of government research institutions by Hindu ideologues and the introduction of Hindu-oriented syllabuses in schools and universities.
However, both institutions are producing steady returns.
In a year in which state universities often absorbed sharp budget cuts and raised tuition, the salaries of the presidents of those institutions largely held steady, according to a survey by The Chronicle of Higher Education released Sunday night.
The Internet has made steady inroads in Morocco; major institutions have direct access to it, while private individuals can connect via telecommunications "boutiques," a version of the cyber cafés found in many Western countries, and through home computers.
Since the nineteen-seventies, a combination of market forces, declining union strength, and ideological changes has led to what the economist Alan Krueger has described as a steady "erosion of the norms, institutions and practices that maintain fairness in the U.S. job market".
A World Bank report issued last week said that while the Palestinian Authority had made steady progress toward building the institutions required by a future state, the economy was currently not strong enough to support such a state, and remained too dependent on foreign aid.
