Will ECD triumph in Malawi?

It all began with research: 80 percent of human brain development, experts discovered, takes place in the first three years after conception.

Malawi graduates equipped for self-employment?

When 24-year-old Catherine Malani of Ndaonetsa Village  in the southern Malawi district of  Mulanje failed to make it to university in 2002, she felt her future was doomed.

Making teaching entertaining

Behind tales of teachers receiving skimpy salaries late are silent portraits of inspiring workmanship that requires further training to make education more interesting.

Reducing maternal mortality with community involvement

A group of men and women in Malawi, on a Friday morning, are dancing to their songs of triumph, and their voices are soaring into the sky.

Is education sector making headway?

A year in office may not be enough for a leader to bring about dramatic change to any system. But for a visionary leader, one year is enough for setting a tone that can, with time, define a course of instituting noticeable change.

President Joyce Banda rose to leadership with great promise. She symbolised change from what defined her predecessor. And so it was even in the education sector.

Can education succeed without mother tongue?

Today in 1952, police shot dead four Bangladeshi students in a fight to save their mother language. Inspired by their martyrdom, the World Mother Language Day also calls on Malawians to rethink how they are preserving their languages. JAMES CHAVULA writes.

Over 500 classrooms for Malawi pupils

Chisomo Inoki should have been in Standard Seven had she not dropped out of school for a year. She is currently in Standard 6 at Kabudula Primary School, about 50 kilometres east of Lilongwe City.

Chisomo started losing interest in school when she was in the first term of Standard Six. She absconded classes on a regular basis until the second term when her teacher realised she had stayed away from school for many weeks.

Why do many students fail MSCE?

When Mary Moyo, 23, of Traditional Authority Chilamwera in Thyolo was selected to Blantyre Secondary School (BSS) in 2004, she leaped with joy. Her hard work had paid off.

Can Malawi manage free secondary education?

Malawi’s free primary school programme might have been a great idea when it was introduced in 1994 but its impact has been rather disappointing.

Gospel of education according to Michiru CCAP

How has a small church in Blantyre lived the history of its founders by managing to raise funds within the country and build a lucrative K64 million (about $213 333) private primary school? Ephraim Nyondo writes: