Category: Education

By Moses Nyirenda, MANA Minister of Gender, Children, Disability and Social Welfare, Mary Thom Navicha has said some cultural practices are fueling the increase of child marriages in the country. She made the remarks on Wednesday during the 30th commemoration of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which was held at Bingu International Convention Center (BICC) in Lilongwe. Navicha, who was the guest of honor at the function, said her ministry is concerned with the increase…

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By Sarah Munthali, MANA Police in Mchinji have arrested 12 students of Magawa Secondary School for vandalising school property during Tuesday night. The arrests were part of police interventions to restore peace at the school. Mchinji Police spokersperson, Kaitano Lubrino said the students vandalised school property in reaction to the school authority’s move to suspend a student who had a radio, contrary to school rules. “Police investigations established that the suspension of the student did not go well with…

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By Grace Kapatuka, MANA Traditional Chiefs, Civil Society Organisations and other stakeholders from six districts of the country on Tuesday signed an agreement to end child marriage at a ceremony that took place in Salima. The signing ceremony took place after a thre- day annual conference on girls’ education and youth sexual reproductive health rights organized by Centre for Youth Empowerment and Civic Education (CYECE) whose aim was to give a platform to young boys and girls from six…

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By Caroline Nyekanyeka Plan International Malawi Mulanje programme area mobilized girls from four secondary schools and gave them an opportunity on Wednesday to visit various corporate companies and hospitality institutions in the district for career talks. This is a continuation of the commemoration of the International Girl Child Day, which falls on November 11 that empowers school girls worldwide to pursue their dreams. This is being done under the Plan International’s global theme of GirlsGet Equal campaign and Mulanje…

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  By Duncan Mlanjira Since its establishment in 1991, Islamic Zakaat Fund (IZF) has succeeded in financially supporting over 2,500 students towards attainment of first degrees in various fields from various institutions and over 15,000 secondary school students to realise their dreams on enrolling into tertiary education. This was disclosed on Saturday morning by ZKF chairman, Kassim Okhai when unveiling a partnership agreement between ZKF and Malawi Relief Fund UK, which is set to invest over K900 million over…

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  By Duncan Mlanjira Following reports that government has sold Livimbo school campus to a person of Asian origin, some concerned citizens have asked the authorities to revisit title deeds to lands that were politically grabbed from Asian owners by the Malawi Congress Party-led government. Reports trending on social media are that government has sold the public school to an Asian, who has told school management to vacate the premises as he wants to pull down the public infrastructure…

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  By Duncan Mlanjira The Vice-President of the Republic of Malawi, the Right Honourable Everton Herbert Chimulirenji, has inaugurated the MACOHA flag week with an assurance that governrment will continue promoting access to education for all including persons with disabilities. The Vice-President pointed out that government realizes that persons with disabilities face a lot of challenges, hence it has put in place legal instruments in order to protect the rights of persons with disabilities. The Right Honourable Chimulirenji said…

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  By Duncan Mlanjira Malawi Council of Churches Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM) and the Malawi Council of Churches (MCC) has asked the government not to dictate to them on what to do following the statement from the Ministry of Education that said no child should be excluded from school for dressing according to their religious rights unless the type of dress offends public morality or school discipline. The communique from the Ministry’s Secretary for Education, Science and Technology,…

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