The Government has handed Brain Magoya a key role at the centre of Malawi’s higher education funding system after appointing him as the new Chairperson of the Higher Education Students’ Loans and Grants Board (HESLGB). In an official appointment letter issued on 8 October 2026, Deputy Chief Secretary and Comptroller of Statutory Corporations Christopher S. […]
More than 33,000 needy and eligible students have been provisionally approved for funding under the 2026/27 academic year loan cycle, as the Higher Education Students Loans and Grants Board (HESLGB) revealed it had been hit with unprecedented demand for financial support. The Board confirmed that 33,25 8 students have provisionally secured funding, after processing a […]
Malawi Police Service in Lilongwe have arrested Higher Education Students Loans Board executive director Chris Chisoni, National Police Spokesperson James Kadadzera has confirmed. But he did not give details of Chisoni’s arrest on Thursday. However, information indicate that he gave out an K18 million contract to his wife’s firm EE & A Enterprises of Lilongwe […]
At least 2 000 students in government run universities risk expulsion for lack of fees after Treasury cut a K11.9 billion budget for the loans. Chris Chisoni, executive director of Higher Education Students Loans and Grants Board told a parliamentary cluster committee meeting on Monday in Lilongwe that the K11.9 billion budget, which the board […]
A group of men claiming to be senior loans and grants officers at the Higher Education Students’ Loans and Grants Board (HESLGB) gone flat out collecting money from parents of the needy students in the name of processing fees, Nyasa Times has established. The bogus HESLGB officials are demanding K100, 000 for the forms of the […]
Over 150 delegates from 50 countries across the globe are expected to attend this year’s Association of African Higher Education Financing Agency conference which Malawi, through the Higher Education Students Loans and Grants Board (HESLGB), will be holding from 24 -25 September 2018 at Bingu International Conference Centre in Lilongwe. HESLGB executive director Chris Chisoni […]
Previously, the government of Malawi, through the Higher Education Students Loans Board (HESLB) increased funding to needy students in public and private colleges through student loans. Funding rose by an approximately 60% as compared to last year. This was largely due to numerous calls throughout the country, which were championed by parliamentarians, on the need […]
The High Education Students Loans and Grants Board (HESLGB), says it has disbursed s loans to deserving students from public universities. HESLGB executive director, Chris Chisoni says the board, which is mandated to disburse the loans, has released MK6,830,566,500 to each student meaning that MK4,759,066,500 as tuition loan and MK2,071,500,000 as upkeep loan. Chisoni said […]
Education, Science and Technology Parliamentary Committee has proposed that students in public universities who give wrong and false information to the Loans and Grants Board should be fined K100 000 or be imprisoned for six months. The chairman of the committee Elias Chakwera told parliament on Wednesday that some undeserving students deliberately gave false information […]
Mzimba North Constituency legislator Agnes Nyalonje has said the the university loan scheme needs to be reformed, saying giving partial loans to needy students represents “the worst case of a lose-lose scenario.” Nyalonje made the remarks when she seconded a motion moved by Malawi Congress Party (MCP) legislator Juliana Lunguzi moved calling for a reveiew […]
Fiscal Police have moved in to investigate revelations that High Education Students Loan Board (HESLGB) has spent over MK17 million for the organisation’s diaries and loan forms, a contract awarded to a private firm which has appalled and incensed most Malawians as the cost deviates from the institution’s core mission of providing loans to needy students. […]
Revelations that High Education Students Loan Board has spent over MK17 million for the organisation’s diaries and loan forms has appalled and incensed most Malawians as the cost deviates from the institution’s core mission of providing loans to needy students and Dedza East member of Parliament (MP) Juliana Lunguzi is calling for review of the legislation. […]
The Higher Education Students’ Loans and Grants Board has assured people in the country that the board will continue to mobilise resources to help needy and deserving students’ to access tertiary education. HESLGB Executive Director, Chris Chisoni made the assurance on Tuesday at Nankhwali Community Day Secondary School (CDSS) during the board’s awareness campaign and a tree planting […]
About 38 foundation year students at the College of Medicine (CoM) who were facing a risk to be forced to withdraw this year because of lack of tuition fees have been rescued by Higher Education Students Loans and Grants Board (HESL&GB). Loans board executive director Chris Chisoni said they have decided to support the students “so […]
The Higher Education Students’ Loans and Grants Board says it is now fully established appealing to all former student beneficiaries from the University of Malawi (Unima) and Mzuzu University (Mzuni) to repay their outstanding matured loans they acquired during their time of study at the universities. The board’s executive director Chris Chisoni advised former students […]
University of Malawi’s Higher Education Students’ Loans and Grants Board officials are upbeat they will recover all the K1.7 billion debt from former students. The board`s executive director Chris Chisoni said the money is from 2700 former students who took the loan between 1985 to 2012. “We are leaving no stone unturned. We are working […]
President Peter Mutharika has directed treasury to release additional resources that will accommodate the needy and deserving public university students who were withdrawn or were on the verge of facing the chop due to non payment of tuition fees. The President has also ordered National Council for Higher Education (NCHE) to approve all applications of […]
Officials from Higher Education Students Loan and Grants Board are upbeat they would collect a debt of K1.7 billion from former students. The board’s executive director Chris Chisoni told a television station that the K1.7 billion would help the board help 10000 more students from the current number of 5000. “Paying back the loan is […]