Nsanje district continues to perform poorly in the education sector as about 3,000 primary school students have dropped out of school this academic year alone despite interventions by government and Non Governmental Organization to promote education in the district. According the district’s Education service committee report, the main contributing factors are general poverty, early or […]
Independent Schools Association of Malawi (ISMA) has urged Government to investigate the alleged illegal private schools which ISMA describe as enemies of quality national education standards. ISMA President, Joseph Patel, said this in an exclusive interview with LINA. He alleged that currently over 2000 schools ranging from nursery to secondary in the country are operating […]
Police in Nsanje are hunting for a 19 year-old Form 3 student at Magoti Community Day Secondary School (CDSS), Jereman Bandawe, for physically assaulting the school’s watchman days after he’d been indefinitely rusticated from the institution. Nyasa Times’ correspondent in Nsanje Charles Jingini said Bandawe had been a given a punishment, together with six others […]
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 […]
Malawi has set aside $2 million from the Sector Wide Approach (SWAP) to purchase over 200 science mobile laboratories and the kits for the 2015 to 2016 academic year. Deputy Minister of Education, Science and Technology, Vincent Ghambi said Thursday that the country is preparing to implement the new science curriculum which is starting next […]
About six hundred government sponsored students at Mzuzu University (Mzuni) have been sent on an indefinite suspension following mayhem they caused over “insufficient meal allowances,” Nyasa Times has established. Exempted from the suspension are self-sponsored students and, first years who began their studies in September this year. Nyasa Times journalist Pius Nyondo in the Northern Region city of […]
President Peter Mutharika has donated a minibus to Dedza Secondary School. Through his special assistant Ben Phiri, Mutharika who is an alumni at the school, also promised to rehabilitate the school and pay for the maintainance of the the road up to the Boma. According to Phiri, the whole project will cost the President K20 million. “This […]
A teacher at Central Primary School in Dwangwa, Nkhotakota District who has allegedly been defiling two of his teenage pupils, is in trouble as both girls are pregnant of him. The suspect, Lemon Kapusa, 26 is currently in custody at Nkhunga Police station for defilement contrary to section 138 of the penal code. The pupils […]
In a bid to grow the culture of ICT based learning, leading mobile telecoms provider Airtel Malawi in partnership with the British Council launched a computer lab internet on Tuesday at St Mathews Primary School in Chikwawa district. The launch, which was graced by Airtel Malawi Officials, British Council Director and Chikwawa district education manager, […]
In a bid to ease data keeping and processing at Mkwichi Primary School in Lilongwe, Chigoneka ward councillor Dr Desmond Bikoko has donated various sets of computers at the school. “As you are aware that I promised to use my allowances in small-scale developmental projects around my ward, so that is why today we are […]
Msungwana Shaina launched Brainchild of British envoy’s spouse DfID heads tweet it as ‘Malawi’s Christmas Number 1 hit’ A song recorded by Malawi popular musician-cum-politician Lucius Banda promoting girls education in the country has been released and officially launched. The song, Msungwana Shaina, was launched on Wednesday night at the official residence of British High […]
Malawi’s renowned lawyer and former Justice Minister Ralph Kasambara has slammed primary school teachers for allowing pupils to go to the streets protesting against teachers’ delayed salaries. More than 1,000 teachers went on strike Monday after their salaries were not paid. This is one of a series of strikes by teachers. Malawi’s education ministry said […]
Martha Lisa Wataya who went to Chitawira Primary School in Blantyre returned to his alma mater to donate 730 exercise books worth K150, 000 to Chitawira and also Mlambalala Primary schools, which according to authorities at the two schools said will go a long way in alleviating problems that pupils experience. According to Wataya, the […]
Hundreds of angry school pupils who took to the streets in the Malawi commercial capital, Blantyre, protesting delays by government in paying their teachers’ salaries said they want President Peter Mutharika to know that they are angry with the situation. The pupils, aged between six and 12, organised themselves into an impromptu strike, pelting their classrooms […]
Pupils from some primary schools around commercial city of Blantyre brought business to a standstill on Wednesday when they took to the streets protesting against delayed teacher’s salaries. Police used fired rounds of teargas Wednesday to disperse hundreds of angry school pupils who took to the streets. Teachers from primary schools around Blantyre as well as […]
Strange occult-related happenings reportedly hit St Tereza Primary School in Liwonde in the district of Machinga disturbing classes in the process. Confirming the development, one of the teachers at the school, Patrick Kagwale said first signs of the occult appeared to a standard six student (name withheld). “As we were having our classes this morning, […]
The Catholic Education Commission in Malawi (CECOM), an arm of the Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM) says it is concerned with the performance of students at Malawi National Examination Board’s (MANEB) examinations. In a statement signed by CECOM’s National Education Policy Coordinator, Steven Ndhlovu bemoaned the failure of students at Primary School Leaving Certificate Examinations […]
Six thousand (6000) teachers under the seventh Initial Primary Teachers Education (IPTE7) and Open and Distance Learning (ODL2) have gone five months without receive their salaries. The teachers, who were employed in May but reported to their work places in June, have complained that they are finding it hard to survive since they have been […]