The Minister of Tourism, Culture and Wildlife, Michael Usi, has demanded that Mangochi-Salima Lake Park Association (MASALAPA) should produce documents and receipts to support claims that the association spent close to K5 million on materials for a teacher’s house it has constructed at Maganga LEA School in Salima. Usi made the demand on Tuesday after […]
Ministry of Education has said teachers, who have been asking for Covid-19 risk allowance consideration, will have to wait a little longer for response as the matter is still under discussion. Teachers demand for risk allowance attracted a heat debate, resulting in bad blood between teachers and journalists George Kasakula of Times Media and Kondwa […]
Private school teachers, hit hard by the freeze of their monthly pay due to covid-19 prolonged closure of schools, say they are not able to access their pension funds as earlier announced by the government. The teachers are facing financial hardships with some of them facing evictions from houses due to non-payment of rent. One […]
Vice President Salous Chilima has assured civil servants and those working in parastatals that Tonse Alliance will introduce a new standardised salary structure for civil servants and those in public service which will be higher than what they are receiving now. “Tonse Alliance will introduce a new and higher salary structure for the civil and public […]
Teachers Union of Malawi (TUM) has asked government through the ministry of education to pay the April teachers salary by Friday this week before nationwide lockdown which comes into effect on Saturday. According to a statement seen by Nyasa Times dated April 15, 2020 and signed by the organization’s president Willie Malimba and secretary general […]
Malawi Teachers Union has hailed business mogul, Shiraz Ferreira of SF International for launching a K100 million (approximately U$135,800) hygiene initiative in schools across the country to prevent the spread of coronavirus (Covid-19). Malawi has no confirmed case of coronavirus so far. But as part of preventive measures Shiraz launched the hygiene initiative a fortnight […]
Over 70 teachers from public schools in Mangochi are yet to receive their December pay cheque just weeks after the hover said it had paid all teachers. Some of the teachers said they are finding it hard to teach because they are thinking of money all the time. Mangochi district education manager Joe Magombo said […]
A teacher at Majuni Primary School in Mangochi has hanged himself following a quarrel he allegedly picked with his wife, police have confirmed. The deceased has been identified as Sungeni Matinganya. Mangochi Police Station spokesperson Rodrick Maida said in a statement that the wife left their matrimonial home on Sunday after the quarrel. “When Matinganya […]
Some teachers on Thursday stormed Capital Hill, the seat of government in Lilongwe demanding to see the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MoEST) Principal Secretary (PS) Justin Saidi over unpaid December salaries. The protesting teachers were however stopped from proceeding to Capital Hill offices by the police at the Capital Hill main gate. The protests […]
Ministry of Education, Science and Technology says it has now paid outstanding salaries for the 7,167 teachers who were removed from the payroll in November last year, following their failure to submit details of their national IDs as was requested by government. Principal Secretary in the ministry, Justin Saidi told journalists in Lilongwe on Wednesday […]
District Commissioner (DC) for Balaka Emmanuel Bambe on Tuesday, hailed all teachers in the district for peacefully demonstrating and refraining from using school leaners in the process. He said it was worrisome that in some areas, school children were at the centre of the demonstrations, a situation which he said fuelled violence against innocent road […]
Malawi Police at Madisi have teargassed learners who went violent, stoning and damaging vehicles as they marched to Mponela to meet education authorities over their failure to attend classes because of the ongoing strike by their teachers. The police have managed to disperse the learners from primary schools around Madisi who have broken vehicle windscreens […]
Malawi Police in Zomba Police have arrested a teacher for allegedly impregnating a student. The teacher, Blessings Tanganyika 34, has been arrested for allegedly having sex with a female student under his care. It is alleged that, between the months of April and May, 2019, the suspect who is a teacher at St. Bridget […]
Learners from various primary schools in cities of Lilongwe, Blantyre, Mzuzu , as well as districts of Nkhotakota, Balaka, Dedza, Mchinji and other parts of the country aged between five and 13, took to the streets protesting at the government’s delay in paying their teachers’ salaries for December 2019 so learning can resume. Chanting “We’re […]
Public primary and secondary school teachers have started an indefinite, nationwide walkout to force government to pay them their December 2019 salaries., especially those who were removed from the payroll for failure to submit their National IDs. Teachers Union of Malawi (TUM) said about 5 000 teachers were removed from the payroll alongside other civil […]
Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MoEST) has urged teachers who were delered on the payroll to submit details of their national identification (ID) cards before December 30 201 in order to access their salary. Thousands of civil servants – including teachers- were removed from government payroll on December 19 for failing to submit details […]
Teachers Union of Malawi (TUM) has warned teachers against conducting business during normal teaching and learning hours, saying the practice is against principles of the teaching profession. TUM General Secretary, Charles Kumchenga said in an interview that the union is aware of a tendency by some teachers who sell items to learners during teaching and […]
Government, through the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology is set to deploy 81 newly recruited primary school teachers to Ntchisi. District Commissioner (DC) Peter Jimusole disclosed this during a full council meeting on Thursday when responding to concerns by councilors that the district had inadequate primary school teachers. The councilors noted that the district […]