In an effort to address school level challenges that come during the registration and payment of examination fees for national exams, the Malawi National
Deputy Minister of Education, Madalitso Kambauwo Wilima, has hailed initiatives by communities in making sure that learners are accessing quality education and in safe environments.
Wilima was speaking at Chibavi Community Day Secondary School in the city of Mzuzu on Thursday when she visited the school to check progress of education amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
Wilima appreciates one of the Science labs constructed by EU
The deputy minister was in the northern region where she visited a number of educational institutions including Rumphi Teachers Training College, some schools at Bolero and Ekwendeni.
At Chibavi Community Day Secondary School, the minister was impressed with an initiative to construct a fence as a solution to a long-time security problem that sees property being damaged and classes being disturbed by trespassers time and again.
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Government has urged teachers and all stakeholders to be fully prepared professionally and psychologically as Malawi schools re-open on Monday 22nd February, 2021.
Chibavi teachers attending the school-based workshop
Secondary and Primary School managers were oriented on how best they can manage their institutions amid the Covid-19 pandemic as schools re-open.
Managers who underwent the training were in turn expected to train their members of staff at school level before welcoming learners in their respective institutions.
It is against this background that Principle Secretary for the Ministry of Education responsible for Administration, Kizwell Dakamau, visited Chibavi Community Day Secondary School in Mzuzu on Saturday afternoon to appreciate how prepared the school was.
Shire Highlands 289 students.
Among the critiques is that the Northern Region was robbed despite performing better.
This was echoed and amplified by Leader of Opposition in Parliament Kondwani Nankhumwa who argued that the regional allocation of SR, 929; CR, 749 and NR, 182; proportion-wise: SR, 40%, CR, 50% and NR 10% is unfair because “while the Central Region has the lowest pass rate, it has the lion’s share in national secondary schools,” Nankhumwa said.
Put differently, the Central Region – Malawi Congress Party (MCP)’s base – has been favoured.
Secretary for Education Chikondano Mussa and her pals disagree.
Mussa: It was merit
“We would like to make it clear here that merit was the major determinant of selecting students to secondary schools,” she said, adding that the cut-off point for selecting boys into national secondary schools was 380 marks while that of selecting girls was 354 and that selection to district secondary schools also depended on proximi