League for Change (LC) has asked government to reverse its decision to withdraw support towards subsidising tuition for the Malawi College of Health Sciences (MCHS) students across the country. About 30 students nurses are currently on the verge of being withdrawn from studies. In its Tuesday open letter to the Minister of Health, LC president […]
Civil Society Education Coalition (CSEC) and other education advocate have given government up to next Friday to reopen the Malawi College of Health Sciences it closed eight months ago or face action. The institution has been closed since March 2019 following an industrial strike among workers at the college. CSEC executive director Benedicto Kondowe, Youth […]
Over 90 Malawi College of Health Sciences on Monday stormed the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) to force authorities end staff strike and open the college. It was not immediately known who the students were meeting but representatives of the students were allowed into the offices of the OPC on Monday morning. Staff […]
Government has closed down the Malawi College of Health Sciences indefinitely because of industrial strike by staff over labour issues. A notice says all students were to leave the Lilongwe and Blantyre campuses immediately following the closure. But some students were going to the High Court in Lilongwe to stop management from closing down the […]
Malawi College of Health Sciences have gone on strike in Lilongwe and Blantyre to force government pay pension arrears to pension fund managers. Some staff said the government has not been remitting deducted pension money to pension fund managers since 2015, making it impossible for those who retire to get pension benefits. Staff at Malawi […]
Malawi College of Health Sciences students have petitioned management to swiftly attend to grievances by staff on pension and other issues, saying the strike is negatively impacting on the students. The students delivered the petition to management in Lilongwe and Blantyre on Wednesday after the staff went on industrial action to force management pay pension […]
The Malawi College of Health Sciences (MCHS) and Ekwendeni College of Health Sciences (ECOHS), in collaboration with Amref Health Africa in Malawi, announce the launch of a two-year e-Learning training course for nurse-midwife technicians leading to a Diploma in Nursing and Midwifery. The targeted nurse-midwife technicians, who will become Registered Nurse Midwives after completion of […]
Kasungu First Grade Magistrate Court has sentenced Daniel Kakhwesi, 27, to serve a two- year jail term after finding him guilty of an offence of theft. The court heard that, between the months of November-December 2015, the convict cheated a 43 years old woman, Ms Marrium Mataula that he would help her son find a […]
Malawi College of Health Sciences has been forced to close prematurely following management’s failure to contain the financial hitch that has hit the institution. The development has angered students who have threatened to petition President Joyce Banda if government does not do anything to rescue the public learning institution from a complete collapse. The college, […]