Malawi govt abolishes quota system, reinstate JCE

Minister of Education Science and Technology William Susuwele – Banda has announced that government has abolished quota system of selecting students into public universities, and reinstated Junior Certificate Exams (JCE).

Minister of Education William Susuwele Banda : Government has abolished quota system of selecting students into public universities, and reinstated Junior Certificate Exams,

Minister of Education Science and Technology William Susuwele – Banda has announced that government has abolished quota system of selecting students into public universities, and reinstated Junior Certificate Exams (JCE).

Susuwere Banda made the announcement on Thursday during the news conference he held together with  Minister of Information Mike Botoman, who is also government spokesperson.

“Quota System of selecting students into various colleges and universities is abolished forthwith.

“However, Government will continue with its affirmative action towards girls and students with disabilities including albinos.  Our duty as Government is to ensure that there is equitable distribution of resources including infrastructure across the country,” said Banda.

Malawi abolished JCE examination as one way of saving cost as part of the ongoing Public Service Reform Program.

But education minister said  the JCE examinations will be taken in 2021.

“Government has been following, with keen interest, the debate on the need to re-introduce Junior Certificate of Education (JCE) Examinations as  one way of enhancing quality. The abolition of JCE Examinations  meant that students were taking four years in secondary school  before taking national examination.

“This arrangement encouraged students to relax and at the end, not doing well in their examinations at the end of the four years,” the education minister said.

He said furthermore, candidates that failed MSCE Examination had nothing to show for their attendance at secondary school level.

Banda  also said with  the  construction of 250 secondary schools, selection of students will include people with disability and  those with albinism without quota system.

 

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76 replies on “Malawi govt abolishes quota system, reinstate JCE”

  1. Its high time anthu aku Central ndi Southern region Tiyambe kupanga fight against TUMBUKAS NEPOTISIM when it comes to employment opportunities.Pa company bwana akangokhala wakwithu basitu mpaka gate man mtumbukaso.
    anthu apa central ndi southern region tazionerera kwambili zimenezi.ITS TIME TO CHANGE

    Ndipo zomwe mumakamba zokuti atumbuka amakhioza bwino its not true,its because aphuzitsi akumpoto akapita kopanga mark mayeso a MANEB amakondera ana akawo BASI.
    #SAY NO TO TUMBUKALISM CAMPAIGN#

  2. Iwe nyekwe 1 welenganso bwino article ikuti chani if you have any problem with atumbuka kamalize doko la makala anaiyamba alomwe anzako. Kukhala ku south siuchewa or uyao Kaya lomwe Sena manganja just like to be the northerner doesn’t mean al are tumbukas . There are so many languages spoken by northerners that they don’t even understand each other for example chitipa has more than 10 language mtambo you are mentioning is mwaulambia can’t speak tumbuka hense chewa. Karonga are the nkhondes they don’t know chitumbuka. The tumbuka are from rumphi district in other words they called nkhamangas. Mzimba are not tumbuka are ngoni the nkhatabays are Tonga they speak awa Ada timoneni mweuli so which tribe in the north is itching you so that the quota system can’t be abolished yet they too are black Malawians just like you. If there be equal rights they deserve it too as Malawians. Zip your mouth.😎

  3. So DPP abolished JCE and I am wondering why this stupid reporter is praising APM for reinstating the same JCE. This is cheap propaganda by Nyasatimes. DPP knows their time is up and they’re try6to do everything to win votes. Tsitsani passport fees then I will vote for you. Oh! Plus end corruption by your government.

  4. Atumbuka agalu odzikonda. Northerners are very few in number but plentiful in offices, over 60% of the workforce both in private and Govt are tumbukas, and what does this tell you? They are nepotistic to the core and they like to employ only each other. Shameless tribalists. And they pose as if Lomwes are the ones practicing tribalism ooo gosh just visit any ministry and confirm by yourself. Akumachita kulankhula chitumbuka muofesi kuli kumasuka lol!! And ka mchewa kapa central sikakudziwa chomwe kakuchita by supporting the Burundian mtambo. Mudzalira apedegu inu.

  5. Will you also buy back the Peoples Bank you ‘sold’ for a song to Mpinganjira because this too was against the wish and interests of the nation!!!????

  6. If this is how clueless Mutharika and his DPP decide on issues of national interest, they are indeed clueless!! I thought you gave a convincing rationale for dropping JCE and keeping quota system (equitable access to education policy)???!!! What happened to that rationale or was there no convincing rationale for your actions???!!!!!

  7. Governments announcement to abolish quota is a gimmick by the DPP since they now are seeking votes from the North and the center.I would never trust the DPP despite this announcement.If I were from the North, I would go village to village and tell them not to trust the DPP. They will just use the gimmick and get votes and continue with their utmost tribalistic tendencies.

    DPP is a party of CROOKS!

  8. Ine sine mtumbuka but qouta system is one of the instruments for breeding hatrege in the innocen, hard-working youthful northeners against govt n Southerners. Who does that in this world. Stupid dpp

  9. Koma anthu a kumpoto mumatukwaaaaaana eish. Koma mumadziwa kuti zinthu zina zomwe zimabweretsa ma udani a pakati pa mitundu ndi zinthu ngati zimenezi? Ngati zinthu zakunyasani osangizisunga mumtima bwanji? Inu mukuganiza kuti anthu a kumwera akamakumvani ngakhale samayankha mukuganiza amamva bwanji m’mitima mwawo? Mukufuna tsiku lina mudzawanenenso kuti ndi anthu oipa pamene oipitsitsa muli inuyo? Kodi mumafuna zabwino zonse zizikhala zanu basi?

    Tikukuonanitu ndipo tikukumvani mukamatukwana ndi kulalata……….

    Ngati nkotheka sinthani chooondee ngati mulidi a Malawi kuti ana athu ndi zizukulu zathu adzakondane

    Chonde chonde chonde ndapota nanu

  10. when did DPP ( Ducks Progressive Party) government knew that there was need for equictable distribution of government resources. kkkkkkkkkk kaya, koma achedwatu

  11. Join the discussion… Why abolish the System now? Cries have been in the air for years! The Govt defended it to the fullest! Wrong timing!

  12. Just a campaign, who are you fooling? Copying mcp and utm manifestos for the 2019 elections on abolishing quota system. That is what 50+1 can do to staunch diehard supporters of the Quota system. Now you have changed. When are you implementing this? At the start of academic year 2020 in sept or October? Not much detail has been given here. If they win, they will go back to supporting quota system.

    We want specifics, that you are abolishing the 2009 Bingu EAHE policy because strictly speaking the 1987 quota system was abolished in 1993, then in 2009 was reinstated. You can’t abolish the 1987 quota system which was already abolished in 1993.

    You are just fooling northeners.

    I agree with the JCE reinstatement, its stoppage was pure stupidity.

  13. A DPP yiwalani kuti mungatipusiseso akumpoto. Before last year election you started constructing mombera University just to cheat northerners so that they should vote for you. You cheated that you have abolished quota system in secondary school. You thought election are over after that you stopped the construction, you used quota again. Now just pack up and go. Northerners are tired with you. We have suffered alot at your hand. Let’s try others.

    1. This is not POLITICS, this is CRIMINAL. DDP quench for power is SADISTIC, they can sacrifice almost anything just to cling to power. They arrogantly scrapped off JCE amidst vehement resistance and protest from the opposition only to abolish it a year down the line. In a similar manner DPP defrauded MSB deliberately just to sell it a conman and JUDGE BRIBER at a give away price. These crimes are unpardonable. These thieves belong to jail.

  14. Koma a DPP u president umaufuna kwambiri.Where were you all these 11 years to abolish quota system today? What are you going to do now, with students from north Malawi who were left out because they were North Malawians.For ,11 years kuwaletsa ana akumpoto kupita Ku university pomwe anzawo amapoints omwewo munawapititsa Ku university.Pano mukuti mwachotsa mukuputsitsa ndani? we know Kut you have abolished quota system for only5 months.Dpp kudzangowina quota system yidzapitiliza.Mukufuna mavotes awanthu akumpoto.Dpp you are evil.Mulungu achite nanu kwakukulu . Inu Zanu zada basi

  15. Mesa mkati muchotsa zitukuko zonse Ku mpoto? Lero mukubweretsa izi kodi mukufuna chani anthunu? Zoonadi (Dpp) means Dishonest People in Politics taonani mwapanganso ubale ndi UDF which means In Democratic Family.

  16. DPP (ABakha) you are really taking Malawians for fools! you are sooooooooooo stupid its pathetic, you think we cant see through all this nyusensi

  17. Zayambika campaign……….this is welcoming though, koma to earn votes arrest all albino killers including those in the dpp, police or anybody connected, all officials complicated in corruption must be put to jail, onse akuba a dpp amangidwe basi ndiye tikhutila apo biiii sitikuvotela dpp yaye……..!

  18. In politics qouta no problem.In education bad.Catholics practice qouta when selecting kids for there church members they try to distribute to all their churches unlike CCAP which is full of abusa and friends kids.In this new set up more advanced schools have an uper hand.This year Mangochi and Phalombe have been the best and a Yao Muslim has been on spotlight at MUST UN.. Therefore shauri yako . Just observe Other people not Long will change the crying pattern.God Does encourage selfishness but sharing! sharing!.

  19. Mwachita bwino kuyesa kumvako madandaulo a amalawi Ngati zili zoona . It’s true that students have been left behind thinking they still have more time to write the exams. Ngakhale mu misewu mumakhala ma sign post Ngati Hamp robots kuchitila Kuti ma driver komanso pedestrian adziona zapatsogolo. Kubwela Za qouta system if it’s not politics then mwachita bwino chifukwa kukanakhala nthawi yakale ija tikanawauza ana athu Kuti asinthe Maina ndi ma sir name adzitche ache mulhakho botomani Phiri Kuti apite ku Jerusalem university 😂😂😂

    1. Totally agree, it very bad to request district of origin on MANEB forms and during interview. Some interviews they even ask for your wife’s district of origin.. It’s very pathetic!

  20. No way DPP to get votes from North, u aim to buy our votes ? It won’t happen, u can’t blindfold a Northerber with this crap. The way u blindfolded southerners with 10kgs of Maize during campaign time won’t happen with northerners.

    We are ready to take big revenge this time around, we will vote massively for opposition and get rid of u Diphiphi. This is too late uncle Bob.

  21. All this trying to fool people from North ur tricks can’t work right now just pack off & go..We don’t want u DPP

  22. Just fooling us, you will never abolish quota system, you hate people from the north, you are trying to ask us to vote for you. A Bankha inu sshupid. Do you think you can develop Malawi if Mabulutu azaza mu ma government departments. Never. Malawi will never ever developed. Someone with a fake degree kukhala presidential adviser sure?

  23. This is just political gimmick,aimed at blindfolding northerners,we northers say no to be blindfolded by dpp fools.The timing of abolition more so is too questionable,where have u been?we will continue rallying behind either sks or Chakwera

    1. Eya ndiye ndalezotu u dont know political game kkkkkkk chachikulu kuwoloka ambuye koma this is a reality u know what in malawi chilichonse dpp ingachite ppo have bn saying ndi ndale so u take or not thats up to u brother

  24. LIP SERVICE, WHICH SELECTION WILL PROVE THIS BETWEEN NOW AND NEXT ELECTIONS?? THE PRACTICE WILL STILL BE THERE, FOR AS LONG AS DPP/ ANSAH AND TEAM PLUS NEW RECRUITS/ OLD GUARDS AT MEC ARE STILL THERE!!!

    1. Awa ndiye MASANJE, MASANJE.
      Malawi is now like a Guinea pig for DPP to experiment how to run a government.
      Mwina anthu aku North anawaonadi kupepela, I guess they will vote for them

  25. Eeeeeee!!!! DPP kuyesetsa kuti isachokebe??????? iiiiiii abale,amenewa paja anabwela ndi Muluziiiiii eish Zosiilana izii!!!!! Mungati inu simungan
    khale mpaka kale ai……Dont you get it?? Vuto okapanga zolakwa mapeto ake amakhala amenewo.CHILIMA NDI CHAKWELA AZAKUPATSANI ZINGWE NTHAWI YATSALA YOCHEPA KKKKKK.

  26. Often times we underestimate someone’s knowledge but our peril is to underestimate someone’s intelligence. It is now apparent that APM is the man of the show. UTM and MCP were busy hiding behind the cloud all along. Everyone can flow with the cloud, the point is to stand alone. Look at APM, he’s making fine steps since the 3rd Feb nullification. We are busy laughing and castigating but surely he’s focussed and knows what he wants. He had United UDF to capture the Eastern region. Now this quota is a campaign tool for a commoner in the north. Real business being run silently. Imagine up to today Chilima and Chakwera haven’t talked seriously about possible alliance after all that extravagant time spent together on the elections court case. We may comment negatively on this post but the fact still remains that APM is moving swiftly just after the ConCourt. Period.

    1. I think you are stupid because you dont know what you are writing about. Infact you dont know what you are writing. Its too late. You think people do not know its because of the impending elections? You are stupid

    2. Forget votes from northern region. Ur evil party is not wanted in North ise takana tikuyikhumba yayi DPP yinu bakulu mkujisuzga waka. Ur tricks won’t work coz the hate that u have towards northern region is just pathetic……..DPP have tortured Northerners heavily, the cruelity experienced is unbearable!!

    3. You are not honest.APM is a loser here you think northerners are stupid enough to believe that the decision is under good faith.All the fight by quota system association was not heeded but now there is election you say we have abolished it starting 2021.These are the issues that Malawians are tired of.We do not want such leadership that after winning will not implement.

  27. Dpp is useless. People have complained for a long time over this issue. You never listened. Now because you want votes, you are repositioning yourselves. We know this is lie. We wont take you seriously. We want you to learn the hard way. We no longer want dpp. We dont want family parties. We want parties that belong to every malawian. We want to be part and parcel of the parties. One day we should lead as well. Za ku banja khalani nazo. Ife tikupanga zatha now.

    1. Kodi sizingatheke kupanga like comment 10times. Ndangopanga kamodzi akuti basi ndapanga kale. kkkkkk

  28. Koma ma vote omwe mukusakawo akumpoto, anthu ake are not easily swayed.
    Munkati muzachotsa quota mukamanga mombera university. I guess mwamanga

          1. Kayatu: Kodi ndiye kuti government stops functioning during campaign? Last year’s campain teachers and police officers were promoted enmasse. You made noise but the promotions were effected. As am talking now the promotions are valid.

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