Students at Teacher Training Colleges to start paying fees

Students selected to pursue their studies in all government funded Teacher Training Colleges (TTC) will start paying school fees effective 2015/2016 Academic Year.

The Malawi Government through Ministry of Education, Science and Technology has introduced school fees in TTCs  following the upward revision of school fees at various levels of education and abolition of policy of sponsoring students selected to Pubic Universities and Domasi College of Education in order to achieve cost sharing.

Secretary for Education, Science and Technology, Lonely Magreta, said students  in Teacher Training Colleges will now be required to pay K105,000 fees per per year unlike in the  previous  years  when  they were  not  required  to pay  any  fees. Instead of paying   fees,  they were receiving  an allowance of K1,500 per month.

“The K105,000  fees  per year per student  is a mere  20% contribution  to the actual  cost of training” she said, “The  K105,000 is actually lower than what  other students  pay for similar teacher training programmes  which  are offered by DAPP which charges K156,000 per student per year  and no upkeep allowances are  paid to the students.”

However, Magreta said when the  students will be conducting teaching practice during their second year  of training , they  will be entitled  to  an allowance  of K20,000 per month  which  Government will  be obligated to provide.

Like all arrangements made to all Needy Students  selected  to pursue courses at both  Public and Private Universities and colleges, TCC students will have to apply for either  loans or bursaries from the recently  introduced Higher Education  Students’ Loans  and Grants which are being managed and administered by Higher  Education  Students’ Loans and Grants  Board.

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