A 27 year-old Joseph Ndhlovu, currently working as a security guard, has sounded an SOS for help by calling for well-wishers to come in so he can complete his Bachelor of Business Administratiom (BBA) degree at The Polytechnic. Ndhlovu scored a good 12 points in his Malawi School Certificate Examinations (MSCE) which he sat at […]
Management of the Polytechnic has announced it is going to re-open the college after it closed following a fire that razed down one of its hostels months ago. The fire which was reportedly as a result of Malawi police thrown teargas canisters had—apart from having the Nyika Hostel torched—students’ property vanquished. And in a statement […]
A Fourth Year Polytechnic student, Evance Banda, died on Saturday after drowning in Lake Malawi in Mangochi, police have confirmed. Banda was among the Polytechnic’s fourth year students who were having a symposium at Andrews Holiday Resort in the lake shore district and he met his fate when the students went swimming around noon According […]
Members of Mzuzu University Academic Staff Union (Muasu) and Mzuni Non-academic Staff Trade Union (Munastu) have rejected a 10 percemt salary increment offer offered to them by the university’s administration. Muasu and Munastu members’ salaries have not been increased in two years, and they are demanding a 35 percent increment. The staff withdrew their labour […]
Fourth year Polytechnic of Malawi Business Information System student, Samson Fiado has designed a working model of waste bin that alerts relevant personnel on the levels of wastes in the bins via a mobile phone or a monitoring center. Dubbed “EasyBin”, it is a smart waste bin which is interactive, meaning to say that it […]
In an attempt to bail out needy students at the Polytechnic, a constituent college of the University of Malawi (Unima), the college’s Student Union (PSU) has organized a fundraising dinner and dance aimed to help about 295 students who are subject to withdrawal due to financial constraints. The dinner and dance, organized in conjunction with […]
Students at the Polytechnic, a constituent college of the University of Malawi are threatening to resume protests should government fail to address an issue in which they are pushing for an increment on their upkeep allowance. This is despite the signing of the forms which the education authorities forced them to sign as a condition […]
The University of Malawi (UNIMA) has long been associated with academic excellence and all the positives associated with higher education. Almost certainly, all the good about it can be said to be a glorious past perhaps never to be re-lived again. This is so if infamous events as the eight month old academic freedom saga, […]
Some Chancellor College’s (Chanco) students, a constituent college of the University of Malawi (Unima), say they see no progress in their continued class sit-in and have since called on the college’s student union to call off the sit-in. But Chanco’s Student Union body has accused those students pressing for resumption of classes of orchestrating divisions […]
Students from Polytechnic, a constituent college of the University of Malawi, have obtained a High Court injunction to keep the college and Chancellor College open after authorities announce they had been shut down following students’ continuing class-boycott, to force the authorities to increase their monthly upkeep allowances and also reduce tuition fees. The students are […]
Business came to a standstill in Blantyre city on Friday when Polytechnic students took to the streets protesting against University of Malawi Council’s decision to shoot down their demands on upkeep allowance increment and cutting-back of recently hiked tuition fees for mature and self-sponsored students. The students marched through Chipembere Highway to the offices of […]
There was a poignant tribute to murdered fourth-year Malawi Polytechnic student Robert Chasowa at the University of Malawi’s constituent college, Poly in Blantyre on Monday evening. Chasowa was found dead on September 24 2011. He is believed to have been killed by former ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) assailants. A commission of inquiry appointed to investigate circumstances […]
Lecturers at Polytechnic a constituent college of University of Malawi (Unima) have vowed to continue boycotting classes until government increases their salaries by 113 percent. General Secretary of Polytechnic Academic Staff Committee on Welfare (PASCOW), Gift Khangamwa said “there is no concrete communication from the government pertaining to our demand.” He said the lecturers “agreed […]
A man in the mid 20’s suspected to be a thief was caught on Tuesday in the female hostels of the the Polytechnic, a constituent college of the University of Malawi, and received “mob justice.” The suspected thief is said to have gone to the Kapeni hostel at around six in the morning of 14 […]
The Blantyre Magistrates court has convicted and fined Bernadetta Zuze for assaulting a Polytechnic student Martha Kafuliza accusing her of having sexual escapades with her husband. Zuze, who pleaded guilty to the two charges of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and malicious damage, was fined K10, 000 on first count and K5, 000 on second […]
Two students of the Malawi Polytechnic were reportedly killed on Thursday when they were on their way to the campus at the road traffic lights as a lorry belonging to a construction company hit two university students . The students reacted by going to rampage to smash the truck and set it ablaze. They road […]