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 […]
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 […]
Airtel Malawi and Development Aid from People to People (DAPP) on Tuesday sealed a sponsorship deal of K4.4millio to train 10 primary school teachers for the next 3 years. The teachers to access the funding are only those who are needy in training facilities run by the DAPP. The training facilities are Chilangoma in Blantyre, Amalika […]
Police in Phalombe on Friday arrested a 40 year-old primary school teacher for allegedly defiling a standard seven pupil. The teacher, Frank Chitseko is also accused of aiding the 13 year-old (name withheld) to abort a pregnancy. Chitseko of T/A Kaduya in Phalombe and a teacher at Phaloni primary school, is alleged to have been in a […]
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 […]
There has been mixed feelings from Teachers Union of Malawi (TUM) on the salary hike of civil servants from the initially proposed 24.4 percent to an average of 45 percent, as they are not happy with the increment which has favoured top bosses but were consoled with substantial increment to secondary school teachers. In a […]
A 46 year old secondary school teacher at Bangula Secondary School in Nsanje district has died from her injuries after setting herself on fire in her bedroom Wednesday, Police have confirmed. According to Nsanje Police Publicist Samson Balakasi said Margaret Donda died of several body burns which were examined by Kalemba Rural hospital. Before committing self-immolation, […]
Teachers in Malawi’s central district of Dedza have threatened to start boycotting work as the new school calendar startstomorrow Monday in protest against the delay in getting their salary for August. Confirming the development, the district education manager Billy Banda told a local radio Zodiak Broadcasting Station that the education ministry has not communicated to the teachers […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) is disputing media reports alleging that the electoral body will no longer hire teachers as Supervisors and Presiding Officers during elections. The Commission says in a statement that it has not made a blanket decision to stop engaging teachers as Presiding Officers or Supervisors because they proved to be a […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission, which is struggling to pay polling staff for May 20 elections, has announced it will no longer engage teachers as presiding officers and supervisors in future Presidential, Parliamentary and Local Government Elections.The Commission, currently conducting post-elections review meetings across the country, says teachers, highly used in theMay 20 tripartite elections, have proved ineffective. This […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) officials say they will conduct interviews for presiding officers in various wards and constituencies they are conducting by-elections on October 7 to void the repeat of vote counting errors that dogged the May 20 polls which forced the Commission to opt for the failed vote recount. Speaking on Monday during the launching ceremony […]
The First Grade Magistrate’s court in Malawi’s northern border district of Karonga has convicted and sentenced a 40 year old primary school teacher to serve nine years in prison for defiling and impregnate a 14-year-old girl. According to Karonga police prosecutor Inspector, Peter Pilingu, the accused identified as Mandevu Munthali, 40 defiled the girl on […]
A 47 year-old primary school teacher, who appealed against Mzimba First Magistrate’s six-year jail term for defiling one of his pupils, has now been severely punished as the Mzuzu High Court has given him a 18 year-jail term for the offence. Calling a six-year jail term harsh, the convict, identified as Brian Shaba from Kaliwonga […]
About 89 teachers on Saturday graduated from Emmanuel Teachers Training College in Lilongwe. Minister of Education, Science and Technology, Dr. Emmanuel Fabiano, who was guest of honour, hailed the institution for its commitment to support government in the education sector. He said Malawi faces a problem of shortage of teachers in most rural schools, saying […]
Commotion ensued on Friday morning when communities from Masongola Zone in Namwela, Mangochi stormed District Education Manager’s office (Demo) demanding the transfer of Primary Education Advisor (PEA), Muwake Chauluka. The angry communities stoned Demo’s building, smashing windows as well as destroying Chauluka’s house property. They also injured Principal accountant who was later rushed to Mangochi […]
Everyone who is anyone today must thank someone who taught them to read and write, someone who taught them to add, subtract, divide and multiply, someone who taught them to mix chemicals, indeed someone who taught them to think critically. That someone is called a teacher. But look at how teachers are treated. Imagine teachers […]
Over 90 teachers who were expected to start marking Malawi Junior Certificate examination at Chilema Centre in the eastern city of Zomba on Monday, boycotted the exercise due to meagre allowance. The teachers have vowed to resume marking once Malawi National Examinations Board (MANEB) increases their allowance from K12.70 per paper to K25.00 per paper. One […]