David Kaunda National Technical High School: Difference between revisions

David Kaunda National Technical High School was founded in 1924 <ref>{{cite web|title= David Kaunda National Technical High School Profile | url= http://educationinzambia.com/index.php/2012-05-18-13-16-36/lusaka-province/12-david-kaunda-national-technical-high-school |publisher= Education In Zambia |accessdate= 7 March 2016}}</ref> by the British Colonial Government,  with Mr. F. Hodgson as the first principal. It was opened to meet the needs of children of soldiers of the Northern Rhodesia Regiment as a Trades School under the name Hodgson Training School to provide a variety of courses including carpentry, plumbing, brick-laying, metal craft, metal work and leather work.

The school's name was changed to David Kaunda Secondary Technical School to offer senior secondary school education up to the 'A' levels in 1965. It was a a boys school until 1993, when the school opened its doors to the first girls and has hitherto been a co-education boarding school. In 1995, the first grade 12 girl students graduated.