Published: August 2, 2010
Shire Highlands Education Division under probe over K3 million Aids funds |
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Shire Highlands Education Division is under Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) investigations following reports that K3 million from the National Aids Commission was misappropriated. A source at Shire Highlands Education Division disclosed that ACB officers invaded the division and summoned the division manageress, Hazel Manda, to explain the anomaly. Shire Highlands Education Division comprises Mulanje, Thyolo, [...]
Published: July 21, 2010
Govt orders Umbwi students back to school |
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Following last Saturday’s fracas at Umbwi Secondary School in Dedza, the Ministry of Education has ordered the students, who deserted the campus, to return to school or risk losing their places. The students burnt an administration block and attacked teachers’ houses following the death of a Form One student three weeks after two others died [...]
Published: July 9, 2010
4 600 teachers will not receive hardship allowance |
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About 4 600 teachers will not receive K5 000 hardship allowance from government because they are based at district centres, major towns and trading centres which Education Minister George Chaponda has defined as urban. Government will from July end start paying K5 000 hardship allowance to rural areas as an incentive. Chaponda told The Nation [...]
Published: July 4, 2010
JANEEMO global citizenship educational project launched |
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A far-reaching education Malawian initiative ‘JANEEMO Education’ developed to meet the national Curriculum for Excellence themes of global citizenship and sustainable development was launched at the Edinburgh College of Art. ‘JANEEMO Education’ is being premiered for teachers and other education professionals to help them raise awareness of climate change and deforestation amongst Scottish school pupils. [...]
Published: June 19, 2010
NGO sends girls back to school |
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A women’s group in the northern district of Chitipa known as Nthalire Women’s Forum is registering success in its effort of convincing girls who dropped out from school to continue with their studies. In the effort, the group pays visits to homes of school drop-outs during which they talk to them and their parents on [...]
Published: June 6, 2010
China to fund Malawi's new science university |
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The Chinese government will fund the construction of a new science university in Malawi as part of the country’s ambitious initiative to open five new institutions of higher learning in the next decade, according to President Bingu wa Mutharika. China is funding major development projects in Africa, in a diplomatic initiative aimed at building good [...]
Published: May 31, 2010
Campaigners elated with K46 billion to education sector |
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Malawi government has been commended for the increase in the budgetary allocation to the education sector as announced by Finance minister Ken Kandodo when he presented the 2010-2011 national budget, which the sector will this year receive, K46.8 billion. K46.8 billion to education sector represents 20 percent of the recurrent budget, according to Kandodo and [...]
Published: May 16, 2010
Teaching profession a hell in Malawi |
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The fact that one is employed does not end there but it goes together with the living standards. It is obvious that most employed people live happy life because they are able to feed, dress and house themselves. It is also this employment that yields better reputation to many. With the scarcity of jobs in [...]
Published: April 30, 2010
Colleges must offer relevant education for job market –Minister |
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Minister of Education, Dr George Chaponda said he has been to the University of Malawi to hold talks with the Vice-Chancellor Emmanuel Fabiano to persuade colleges to tailor-make their programmes to suit the needs of the job market. “We are trying to ensure that apart from quality education and access to education, it should be [...]
Published: April 29, 2010
Quota system here to stay –ChapondaUS pop star Madonna, second from left, cuts the ribbon at the ground breaking ceremony for the Raising Malawi Academy for Girls in Malawi, Monday,October, 26, 2009. Madonna who is funding the building of the school was the guest of honour at the function. The 51-year-old celebrity arrived in the impoverished southern African country on Sunday. She was accompanied by her four children - daughters Lourdes and Mercy, and sons Rocco and David. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi) Original Filename: MADONNA_MALAWI_XTM106.jpg |
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The controversial quota system which involves students being selected into higher education on the basis of district or region rather than straight merit is a permanent policy of the Bingu wa Mutharika government, Minister of Education, George Chaponda has declared. The education minister contradicted his earlier statement that the system was temporary when he spoke [...]
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