Education
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Returning girls back to their future
In 2010, while in Standard Seven, 18-year-old Roda Chimwaza from Mvakudeni Village, Traditional Authority Mabulabo in Mzimba got pregnant. Things…
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How delays to enact Education Bill are hampering progress
During the current meeting of Parliament, members of Parliament are expected to deliberate on the Education Bill, which has dragged…
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Girls’ future blurred by poor education prospects
As the world commemorated International Day of the Gild Child today, I look at the stumbling blocks that girls in…
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When teaching is a curse
As Malawi joins the rest of the world tomorrow in celebrating World Teachers’ Day themed A Call of Teachers, some teachers who…
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Let’s paint more Happy Classsrooms
Is it possible to make a large-scale improvement to Malawi’s primary education with as little as K85 per child? Yes…
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Leaving school to support siblings
Meyer Gondwe, 20, from Mung’ombwa Village, Traditional Authority Wasambo in Karonga did what her situation dictated. When she was in…
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Empowering girls with education
In most cases, when a girl gets pregnant, it marks the end of her education. But sometimes, a pregnancy can…
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Fighting child labour with education
Rhoda Mtete’s future now looks bright. The 14-year-old girl, from Mchinji, was forced by her parents to leave school while…
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For Providence’s sake
Can an illiterate person become a president? Anne Matumbi’s song Maphunziro kept interrogating past and present students of Providence Secondary…
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Is there hope for Unima students’ strikes?
There are two parties—or say point of views, to every conflict. University of Malawi (Unima) students, precisely those from Chancellor…
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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…
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Making teaching entertaining
Behind tales of teachers receiving skimpy salaries late are silent portraits of inspiring workmanship that requires further training to make…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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