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Gogo
Gogo
8 years ago

Atchukadi nkupha maphunziro mmalo mwa zitukuko. Will you people really have something to show after 2019? The answer is between your lips.

Yohane Lupenga
8 years ago

Zoonadi anzanga’ dziko la pansi likomera opata’.Kaya makoponi,’opata uli kuti?’ ndipatse ka5000.Kaya ndithandizo yochokera kwa azungu”tisapuse boma lathu likatha tidzasauka”.Lero thandizo likuchepa, titani? “Tiphe mayeso a PSLCE ndi JC”. Abale anzanga! kusamaliza ambiri sukulu sikufuna koma chinzake inu,chotchedwa’ndalama’ “pitani mmudzi mukaone ana ambiri anzeru akulephera kumaliza awo maphunziro chifukwa cha wawo umphawi ndi umasiye ochokera kumakolo”.Akapita kuboma amangoti ‘bweraninso mmawa’ mpaka wamasiye ndi wovutikitsatsa kutopa nkukakhala pansi kumudzi. Abale chipanda a former ndi founder presindent wa democracy Dr Bakili Muluzi pokhazikitsa maphunziro awulere kupulaimale ndi tima JC tikuchotsedwati.Kodi wawumpawi ndi wamasiye akanatani?Kodi yawu mgwanya kapena yaulonda tchito,udalaivara,yosesa mu ofesi ndi… Read more »

Sir Bentby
8 years ago

i totally disagree with this long but senseless article, there is no way someone can remove all pslce and jce, these exams works as membrane that sieve the brutal biggots and genius minds. national exams were forcing both teachers to put an extra gear, hence they were covering the syllabus, and pupils were also doing all possible to exploration with an aim of making it, once you abolish jce, teachers will be notching in their offices and at end not covering the whole syllabus, and to make matter worse, they will asses pupils in accordance to there half syllabus they… Read more »

isaac
8 years ago

Most of the people that are writing on this issue have avery good sound pocket who are able to send there kids to private schools which do follow our curriculum. What I can say is let them also send there kids to public schools and see what an impact this will have on our nation and there kids as well.

Sambaukwatiwe
Sambaukwatiwe
8 years ago

A strong foundation, pillars determines the stability of a building, then there are beams that hold to the pillars, and there comes a strong roof making a complete strong building, i wonder why the reserchers, and the gvt are recomending to destroy the main pillars that holds the roof of a building, are we not going to see what happened at Kips in Bt? PSLC and JCE are the foundations and the pillars that makes a gud MSCE. The secret of foundation is always underground and its only a few who knw how inportant it is? Let MANEB mantain those… Read more »

petulo dzimphuno ngati mauna a mbewa
petulo dzimphuno ngati mauna a mbewa
8 years ago

Anthu inu musagone ndibodza lalikulu kupanga abolish JCE kodi whose kids are we doing this for?? inu ana azikhala osalemba mayeso from std 1 all the way to form 4??? inu ndikumasekerera???? achitileni chifundo ana anthu abaleee. A inu ndi ine tikawayika ku pvt akapanga sit for mid point exam at form 3 kenako IGSCE in form 5 kenako SA in form 6 KOMA BASI ANA A ANTHU OPITA KU PUBLIC SCHOOL BASI NO EXAMINATIONS. THIS IS ONE SURE WAY DPP LED GOERNMENT HAS UNLEASHED GENOCIDAL TACTICS ON THE NATION OF MALAWI. HEY WE ARE DEALING WITH PEOPLES DESTINIES AND… Read more »

Bubu
Bubu
8 years ago

You wrote too much. Can you not summarise for us policy makers?

Ron De Ville
Ron De Ville
8 years ago

In one of today’s newspaper, Malawi Bureau of Standards have put an advert for 2 vacant positions of drivers with JCE.

Some of the students who were in Community Day Sec Schools got a chance of being selected to start form 3 at National Sec Sch when they do better on JCE exams to fill in the vacant spaces. Now how will the Ministry fill these spaces with this death sentence on JCE exams? Is this not cultivating a conducive environment for breeding corruption?

tiko
tiko
8 years ago

Very gud article. I surppot abolishion of JCE but I hv reservations for std 8.
Assessment in sec school shd make one who fails end of year internal exams to repeat the year. Govt shd only reinforce record keeping in schools and formulation of reliable and valid tests; and every qualified teacher knows what that means including values in testing and measurement.
My reservation on PSLCE sorely base on the scramble for govt sec sch that we have. Let someone tell me what criteria will be used for selection?

Malawian
Malawian
8 years ago

Thumb up for a well written article, which is based on facts and not dreams, as is the case with many articles written and posted on this forum. But my simple question is; can we comfortably claim that the abolishing of standard 5 examinations same time ago in Malawi had catastrophic impacts? My simple answer is A BIG NO. Therefore it means that history on education policy can teach us something. Sometimes its better to let off excess baggage for the sake of making progress. Another good example is how most catholic secondary school handle continuous assessment seriously to the… Read more »

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