HIGHER Education Authority (HEA) Director General Professor Kazhila Chinsembu has revealed that the Authority has collected K10 million in annual student levy from higher education institutions, as of the first quarter of this year. And Prof Chinsembu says the Authority is facing difficulties in effectively carrying out its mandate and regulatory functions due to funding challenges and low staffing levels. Speaking during an engagement with the Parliamentary Committee on Education, Science and Technology recently, Prof Chinsembu said the grant that HEA received from government was insufficient to meet the Authority’s operational costs. “The annual student levy was K4 but it was increased to K75 and this is a supplementary source of revenue for the Higher Education Authority because Higher Education...