Nsanje Secondary School students are being subjected to pathetic learning environment despite the institution existing for 50 years. Resident female students sleep rough ina dilapidated hostel which used to be a biology laborotary. The classrooms are crumbling, nearly 320 students have to relieve themselves in the open because the toilets are not functioning. The library […]
A partnership between St. Andrews High School of Scotland Malawian rural Secondary schools is set to improve Malawian students’ understanding of the Queens’ language. This is according to Scottish Teachers who visited Malawi recently, in order to train fellow secondary school teachers from their Partner schools in Computer usage and Information Communication Technology. Addressing the […]
Malawian IT specialist Pilirani Kumasewera has developed a comprehensive software package for secondary school subjects dubbed Padziwe Digital Library (PDL). The software contains learning materials which students can use in their study sessions. There are 9 subjects covered in PDL at MSCE and O Level. Kumasewera said the software would simplify the learning process among […]
A Catholic governance NGO has taken a swipe at government for failing to pay 500 teachers in Nsanje since April, saying this is compromising the quality of education. The teachers were left out of the government payroll following a head count that the National Audit conducted a few months ago. Lewis Msiyadungu,diocesan secretary of the […]
A 17 year-old British national Ben Holland on Saturday, 21 May, 2016 completed a 78 mile (125.5km) fundraising cycling to support rehabilitation of Kapuku Junior Primary School in Nkhotakota, Malawi. Ben who is a student at Northampton School for Boys in England has raised £2,000 (MWK2 million) for his trip to Malawi scheduled for July, […]
Chancy Namadzunda –Nyasa Times The newly elected executive committee for one of the earliest schools in the country, Lunjika Secondary hold various activities to fundraise for the renovation of the school which is showing signs that age is catching up with it. Speaking on the sidelines of the alumni Annual General Meeting (AGM) held recently […]
Teacher students at Domasi Teachers College in Zomba said they are failing to buy stationary and other education materials because of government failure to pay them a K58 000 per semester allowance. One of the students said the government has not been able to remit the allowances in their bank accounts in some instances for […]
Teachers Union of Malawi (TUM) has suspended a country wide sit in scheduled on Monday after government said it will meet all the demands by June 30, according to the organisation’s secretary general. TUM secretary general Denis Kalekeni said the government has agreed to pay all promoted teachers starting May and the last group in […]
Ministry of Education officials on Tuesday abruptly cancelled scheduled crisis talks with officials from Teachers Union of Malawi (TUM) two weeks before a strike starts across the country in public schools. Ministry of Education spokesperson Manfred Ndovie said TUM was not well represented at the meeting and the government felt it was noit necessary to […]
Ministry of Education officials have summoned Teachers Union of Malawi (TUM) for a crisis meeting following a threat for a nationwide strike in May as way of forcing government deal with outstanding grievances. Ministry of Education spokesperson Manfred Ndovie said the government want to resolve the grievances, 24 in number amicably without TUM withdrawing labour […]
South Africa-based Malawian, Prophet Shepherd Bushiri, leader and founder of the Enlightened Christian Gathering Church International (ECG) has unveiled his plan to fund secondary schools construction in Malawi. Bushiri made the revelations to Nyasa Times in an exclusive interview f explaining that he has secured millions of bags of cement to help with the project. He […]
Ministry of Education Science and Technology has hailed Malawi National Examination Board (MANEB) for administering free leakage examination for the past two years and has since promised to continue engaging various stakeholders in ensuring that the board maintain its stand. MoEST Director of Secondary and Distance Education, Chikondano Mussa made the remarks at Chichiri secondary […]
A pastoral statement the Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM) released Sunday the bishops of the Catholic Church in the country have again pointed out that education standards continue to go down in public schools (primary, secondary and tertiary). “Lack of or overcrowded classrooms, lack of teaching materials, shortage of teachers and deteriorating infrastructures – dilapidated […]
Legislators sitting on government side on Tuesday afternoon broke into jubilation after beating the opposition on a vote to decrease a budgetary allocation to the struggling education ministry. Ministre of Finance Goodall Gondwe had proposed to cut the budget by K500 million from K113.8 billion to K113.7 billion. Gondwe said the ministry does not need […]
Malawi government through Ministry of Education is not an automatic employer for teachers and trained in its various institutions nationwide, Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development Goodall Gondwe told Parliament on Monday. Gondwe said he noted that many parliamentarians had the general impression that it was government’s responsibility to employ all teachers it trains. […]
Malawi government has finally recruited Initial Primary Teacher Education 8 (IPTE8) and Open Distance Learning 3 (ODL3) primary school teachers and deployed to various education districts to fill existing vacancies in public primary schools across the country. Ministry of Education spokesperson Rebecca Phwitiko said the teachers will start their work on April 1. In a […]
Learners at Kaputu primary school in Salima on Friday morning peacefully matched to the district education manager’s office in protest against the school committee members’ decision to take bags of maize meant for home grown school feeding programme. A few months ago, the school asked each learner to contribute K300 each to buy the maize […]
The revised boarding fees moved from K25000 to K35000 and K65000 to K75000 in government and government aided secondary schools respectively. To the contrary Malosa Secondary School announced that fees were hiked from K65000 to K80000. This is K5000 above the government proposed hike. I feel with K80 000 it means we are subjected to private […]