MCA students protest over NCHE decision not to accredit the college

Angry Malawi College of Accountancy (MCA) students yesterday protested against a National Council for Higher Education (NCHE) announcement that their institution and its degree programmes are not accredited.

NCHE published a notice yesterday that during the 14th Council Meeting held last month, a decision was made not to accredit some higher education institutions, including the renowned MCA, a statutory corporation.

According to NCHE, the public college failed to make the grade after the council “observed with serious concern that the institution does not provide a satisfactory teaching and learning environment”.

Reads the notice about MCA: “The degree programme requires reviewing to ensure comparability with similar programmes nationally and internationally.”
The development angered the students from the college who blocked the road to the campus with stones.

Others went further to deflate tyres of the vehicles belonging to the staffs at the campus and it took the intervention of the guards to quell the situation.

Meanwhile officials from the college are yet to comment on the matter.