A student who scored 12 points from the 2020 Malawi School Certificate of Education Examinations (MSCE) at Chaminade Secondary School is failing to get his notification of results and cannot apply for entrance into Malawi’s public universities. Steven Goodluck Chitete, aged 20, from Mwakasangira Village, Traditional Authority Kilupula in Karonga District, was born in a […]
Outstanding students at St Mary’s Karonga Girls Secondary School under the stewardship of Bishop Martin Mtumbuka of the Diocese of Karonga were on Saturday awarded for their excellence in the 2020 Malawi School Certificate of Education (MSCE) examinations results which outperformed all other secondary schools in the northern region, making it the best in the northern region.
The best students pose with Vicar Genera of Karonga Diocese, Denis Chitete, and Headmistress Martha Chizumila-Nyondo (First from R) and other officials. Pic by Pius Nyondo, Nyasa Times.
St Mary’s Karonga Girls Secondary, which only began with just Form 1 in 2016, has in the 2020 MSCE results surpassed such equally good and already established schools as Chaminade Secondary School of Karonga and Marymount Catholic Secondary School of Mzuzu, among others.
Former Chaminade Secondary School students from the Central Region Chapter have, as one way of easing problems the school is facing, donated 50 desks to the school.
Chaminade Secondary School is one of the oldest Catholic national secondary schools in Malawi, opened in 1962 by Marianists Brothers and has since groomed many personalities some currently working in the public and private sector and some retired.
Chaminande alumni making a donation
After presenting the desks worth K3.7 million during the week, Chairperson of the chapter, Major General Chikunkha Soko from the Malawi Defence Force (MDF), said the alumni agreed to make the donation in order to replace some desks which had outlived their life span.
Central region chapter of Chaminade Secondary School Alumni have donated 50 desks worth K3.7 million to their previous school as one way of easing challenges th
There is an out cry from the people of the North who feel cheated by President Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera and his MCP government for bringing back quota system of selecting students to secondary schools after the DPP government abolished prior to elections in 2019.
Chakwera in his manifesto promised the people of the north that once voted into power he will abolish quota system of selecting students to secondary schools and university.
“I don’t want quota to end but I want it to be dead as well”, said Chakwera in his rhetoric whenever he visited northern region during campaign period.