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Tino Fostino
Tino Fostino
8 years ago

Dude,,,,mmene Degree yapaMzuni imavutila nde muzikhulupilira zofoilazi..,I bet ts jx som educational captalism of som sense…kumaziona zinazi…!!

Mugonapamhanya
Mugonapamhanya
8 years ago

Malawian Lecturers consider it a very big achievement to see their village faces in the print and digital media. And an underqualified journalist considers it a very big achievement to interview a Lecture on a trash subject. The word mediocrity was invented in Malawi.

Andrew
Andrew
8 years ago

A kenkkk, ever heard of research led or research informed teaching? If not, then google and get enlightened

Kenkkk
Kenkkk
8 years ago
Reply to  Andrew

There is no need for me to google. I google for things I don’t know or for more information and not for simple things you suggest.

I am discussing this article objectively while you are doing it from a bootlicking dpp/apm angle.

Inhumane Rights Activist
Inhumane Rights Activist
8 years ago

I am a Malawian academic myself and I have had post-graduate education in the UK. When I read the headline, i was attracted instantly because as you may be well aware, we need to be lecturing, researching, consulting and overall publishing. I have gone through the entire article and nothing linked to the headline has been mentioned. I thought the article relates to the issue that has been in the media domain of late with regards to Mutharika’s statement on Malawian academics and the issue of publishing. Yet all we have been schooled by you is a comparative analysis of… Read more »

Chidongo j
8 years ago

Bravo all have commented on this article you have really shown that you are pour Malawian Brain drain, you have what it makes to be educated. Munaphunziradi kunja eee takunyadirani. zikomo kwambiri kwa olemba nkhani kuti watimasula a Malawi tadziwa pamene tili ndipo tidziwe chochita. Anthu ali amagwira ya u nurse ku u care chonsecho care worker kapena nun choncho pot ndi ntchito.

Kenkkk
Kenkkk
8 years ago

It just shows how ignorant some people are. Publishing or publicizing has nothing to do with teaching or how students will be taught. Are students being taught what is published by their lecturers? It is utter stupidity if you keep on mixing issues here.

chingolopiyo
chingolopiyo
8 years ago

George Kalindawalo, ndinudi mfumu. You have brought a very interesting topic which most people in Malawi are ignorant off. In one of my comment on Danwood article, I explained that Malawi degree is of no value in Europe. You have done well explaining the truth cause we believe and walk shoulder high making noise that we are highly educated, yet our degrees are a Higher Diploma. This is a wake up call to all those who have been against the president when he talked about research in universities. Akalindawalo ndinudi mfumu, mwandikumbutsa nyimbo yakale ya MBC Band. Hear ! hear!… Read more »

pulofesa
pulofesa
8 years ago

Good article, never mind how much money is put into research by their governments i.e. UK, SA and compare the same to Malawi, surely they need to have similar output.

Kenkkk
Kenkkk
8 years ago

Please don’t confuse things here about what apm said and what Chirwa said. Chirwa answered apm perfectly and his university is one of those doing a lot of research. The title of this article is not right and misleading if you read the article in totality. The writer of this article is confused because one minute he is talking about publishing, the next about the standard of education. Clearly the examples he has given about the various academic qualifications show the poor standard of education at our universities and that has nothing to do with publishing. Will publishing improve the… Read more »

Chakwera: "Mulakhoism"
Chakwera: "Mulakhoism"
8 years ago
Reply to  Kenkkk

Are you really sure you don’t see the relationship between education standards and publishing? I always respect your comments but I must admit that I am disappointed. All universities in the world are measured based on the quality of members of staff in those universities. How can we produce high quality degree if we have poor quality teachers? The only way to measure the quality of teachers is not anything except publishing. Publishing is not simple my brother. Ask those lecturers at Unima. This is why very few I mean very few lecturers do it at Unima while the rest… Read more »

kenkkk
kenkkk
8 years ago

I think others have already answered you. If you can’t see the disjointed nature of this article,then you have a problem my friend. The poor standard of education in Malawi is not caused by lack of publishing,it is caused by political chaos and poor planning. Students are taught by following a syllabus not what their teachers or lecturers publish. Then you have stupid quota system,where students are selected not on merit but on where they cone from. Then how can you have good students/education or how can you convince the world that our students are as good when they know… Read more »

Chakwera: "Mulakhoism"
Chakwera: "Mulakhoism"
8 years ago
Reply to  kenkkk

Noted my brother. I was just trying to raise the point that there are many variables that affect the quality of education and not only the syllabi. Some of them are the policy issues as you have rightly put it. And another paramount variable is the quality of teachers. Suppose we have high quality syllabi in our universities but poorly delivered to students by half-baked lecturers who fail to reach the worldly accepted standard (research and publish) of a qualified lecturer. Can a good syllabus improve our education standards? In addition to policy, we also need to improve the quality… Read more »

Kenkkk
Kenkkk
8 years ago

I hear you clearly but all am saying the two issues of publishing or research and what we teach our students are not the same. We can say copy the UK or USA syllabuses and use in our education system but will that help our lecturers publishing? Or will our lecturers fail to teach UK or USA syllabuses, of course not they will teach perfectly but will that help them publishing? Or will their lack of publishing fail them to teach UK or USA syllabuses, again no. Also it is a misconception to think that UK or USA lecturers do… Read more »

Inhumane Rights Activist
Inhumane Rights Activist
8 years ago

I agree with Kenkkk. The article’s headline does not empty its contents into the main body of the text. If the story was about publishing in the academia then that’s what were expected to be told but this then takes a turn for something different: Comparative educational systems and reasons why we have such. That’s all about the article NOT about what the headline seems to indicate. I am an academic, I have attained multiple qualifications from the land where the author says he is based. I doubt if the author is an academic. He could be a professional in… Read more »

Nzeru
Nzeru
8 years ago

Publish OR Perish is what universities in USA, Canada, Europe use. If you dont publish you lose your job in the university. If you dont bring money in university your contract is terminated. We need this in UNIMA

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