Category: Education

Senior Chief Nthache (right) appreciate a plumbing project the students are supposed to work from By Brian Wasili, MANA Hope of the Poor, a local non-governmental organisation (NGO) comprising young men and women who were raised in Mwanza, has provided bursary to 10 needy students to enable them attain technical and vocational education at Nankhudwe Community Skills Development Centre in the district. Speaking during the launch of the bursary scheme at the college on Saturday, Hope for the Poor’s…

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Likoma District By Leonard Masauli, MANA Likoma District has emerged best performer in the just released Primary School Leaving Certificate of Education (PSLCE) examinations, with 93.4% pass rate — beating all districts in Northern Region. The Island district, with huge fishing activities, has defied the odds to cruise from position six in 2019 to position one in 2020. It has the best candidate from Chiteko Primary School at Chizumulu Island, who has been selected to Robert Brake Secondary School….

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Education for all is the target * To provide almost 60,000 new secondary school spaces by end of 2021 * To build 250 Community Day Secondary Schools by 2023 with US Govt. funding * So far, 16 schools have been completed and are in use with 30 to be completed soon * Long-term objective is for all children to attend a minimum of 12 years of formal schooling By Duncan Mlanjira In order to address the inequalities in the…

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Principal Secretary for Education, Chikondano Mussa * Exposes inequity of Malawi’s education system * Only 84,497 lerners of 225,387 that passed exams were selected * Vast majority that passed, 140,440 cannot access secondary education * Ministry contends that this is due to lack of adequate secondary school places By Duncan Mlanjira The public is still not satisfied with an explanation that the Ministry of Education saying that the Tonse Government is taking the responsibility to address any inequalities present…

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* As MUB commemorates ‘World Braille Day’ * Bill submitted to Ministry of Gender, Community Development and Social Welfare in 2019 * MUB got a confirmation that Bill was submitted to the Ministry of Justice on January 31, 2020 * Also pleads with Government for duty exemption on their needy equipment * ‘Braille is a key to economic empowerment of the blind’ By Chipambano Mbewe & Duncan Mlanjira The Malawi Union of the Blind (MUB), while congratulating the government of Malawi…

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By Duncan Mlanjira Blantyre Round Table took its tradition of treating juvenile kids at Mpemba Reformatory Centre further by providing an information & communication technology (ICT) lab. This was on top of the charitable organisation’s annual camaraderie visit to the centre of treating the kids there to a coach ride to Chichiri Shopping Mall for an ice cream treat before going back for a Christmas lunch. They then presents various gifts before having a football game with the the…

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