A survey by Civil Society Education Coalition (CSEC) in urban Malawi has revealed that most teachers are surviving on loan sharks, vernacularly referred to as Katapila, to cope with the country’s extortionate costs of living. With loan sharking a money lender charged exorbitant rates of interest, typically illegal. CSEC executive director Benedict Kondowe told a […]
Malawi government will need a whooping MK 3 Billion to bring back to about 400 schools affected by heavy storm that characterized the floods in the country, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology has said. A report released by Secretary and Commissioner for Disaster Management Affairs show that more than 350 schools are directly […]
One of the education analysts in the country Benedicto Kondowe has appealed to government to priotise paying its teachers and other service providers, saying the delays are lowering standards. Kondowe made the remarks following concerns that some pupils in some schools have not been able to attend classes due to the delay of January salary […]
Civil Society Education Coalition (CSEC) a local Non – Governmental Organisation will soon embark on a two – year pilot project on Contracting Primary Schools for Improved Performance through Results Based Financing (RBF) which aims at strengthening the education system in Mangochi. The results based financing initiative attempts to offer an alternative to testing for […]
Civil Society Education Coalition (Csec) has hailed government for putting on hold the implementation of compulsory science subjects in secondary schools. Csec executive director Benedicto Kondowe told Malawi News Agency (Mana) that the decision has shown that government listens and takes into account what other stakeholders say on issues of public interest. “I am happy […]
One of Malawi’s civil rights campaigners Benedicto Kondowe has faulted a statement which Vice president Khumbo Kachale delivered on Momday in Parliament on cashgate scandal saying it lacks tangible detail which Malawians were supposed to get from government on the scandal. Kachale delivered the statement during the opening of parliament which hinged on the progress […]
The Civil Society Education Coalition (CSEC) says the Malawi government should be serious in its resolve to ensure that the new Malawi University of Science and Technology (MUST) at Ndata Farm in Thyolo is open and fully functional as soon as possible. CSEC, an alliance of 81 local and international organizations working in the education […]
Pressure is mounting on Malawi National Examination Board (MANEB) to swiftly come up with the statement on the extent of the 2013 Malawi School Certificate of Examinations leakage that would help chart the way forward on the issue. The pressure from various stakeholders in the education sector follows the massive leakage of the examinations that […]
Five Malawian NGOs under the banner Governance Platform (GP) have urged government to be cautious with the level of borrowing to avoid accumulating debt stock arguing that they find the reason for the shift from domestic borrowing to foreign borrowing as an insignificant effort to the call to live within our means. Total revenues and […]
The Civil Society Education Coalition (CSEC) said it will mount a massive campaign against political parties and MPs who continue to negate their responsibility in supporting the long awaited revised Education Bill of 2010. “If MPs drag their feet, and accept to see Malawian children not be given what they deserve… it means that they […]
The Civil Society Education Coalition (CSEC) says the new University of Malawi Act scheduled for debate during the current sitting of Parliament, though long overdue, has the potential to politicize the university and compromise the provision of tertiary education. CSEC has since cherry picked 16 faulty areas where it feels parliament needs to reject the bill and […]
The Civil Society Coalition for Basic Education (CSCBE) has asked President Joyce Banda to immediately reconstitute the Mzuzu University Council saying the path of policy direction that the Council is taking, is by all measure vindicative of its failure to practice good governance. “Why should the Council be so mean as to allow the university […]
Representatives of the Civil Society Education Coalition (CSEC) in Malawi are condemning in strongest terms the conduct of government of forcing school children and their teachers to patronize state and the ruling party’s functions. CSEC is an alliance of over 81 local and international nongovernmental organizations that have voluntarily come together in pursuit of quality […]
Malawi President Mrs Joyce Banda has appointed new commissioners of the state-funded Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC), three months after the previous commissioners left office. The new commissioners are: Steven Mkoka, programme manager at the National Initiative for Civic Education (NICE); Dalitso Kubalasa, Executive Director for MEJN; Rodgers Newa, Executive Director of CEYCA and Benedicto […]
The claims by Malawi’s President Bingu wa Mutharika about his party’s numerical strength in Parliament, which he can abuse, to legitimize his third term agenda if he so wished suggests that he might still be nurturing ambitions to holf on to power, Civil Society Coalition for Quality Basic education (CSCQBE) Executive director Benedicto Kondowe has said. […]
The latest survey has ranked the University of Malawi at position 99 out of 100 universities in Africa. According to a story monitored on Radio Islam written by senior reporter Abdul Aziz Onile positions number one up to ten have been dominated by South African Universities with University of Cape Town topping the list seconded […]
The Civil Society Education Coalition (CSEC) which was formerly known as Civil Society Coalition for Quality Basic Education (CSCQBE) has commended President Bingu wa Mutharika for the unconditional reinstatement of the four Chancellor College lecturers who were dismissed over academic freedom dispute. The four are law lecturer Garton Kamchedzera, Jessie Kabwila Kapasula, Blessings Chinsinga and […]
By Charles Mkula, Newstime Africa Civil Society groups in Malawi Thursday made fresh appeals for genuine dialogue to discuss the way forward to address the socio-economic and political governance problems facing the southern African nation before they take the citizens back into the streets on August 17. Speaking at press conference in Lilongwe, Civil Society […]