Tag: Education

Two cohorts of Chancellor College first years to start next week on September 30

Published on September 28, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

The 2011 first year cohort at Chancellor College of the University of Malawi will finally start university education next week […]

Expert bashes Unima on entrance results

Published on September 26, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

An education campaigner has described the recently released University of Malawi entrance examinations results as counterproductive and contrary to government’s […]

Joyce Banda defends her inclusion of DPP MPs in govt at a briefing in the US

Published on September 25, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

Malawians living in USA have questioned President Joyce Banda’s decision to incorporate cabinet ministers and other officials who were serving […]

Chaos at Thyolo school after rejecting Rastafarian pupils

Published on September 22, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

There was confusion at Makapwa Primary School in Thyolo recently when three dreadlocked Rastafarians stormed the school to find out […]

Unima transfers 2012 Bunda intake to LUANAR

Published on September 20, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

University of Malawi (Unima) is transferring prospective Bunda college students, who sat for the 2012 University examination, to the Lilongwe […]

Right to education at stake in Machinga

Published on September 20, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

Two weeks have elapsed now after schools opened on September 3, but some school going children are still confined within […]

UNC joins P&G to deliver 5 billionth liter of clean drinking water in Malawi

Published on September 20, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

This week Procter & Gamble (P&G) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced their joint collaboration has […]

Govt to construct college for special needs teachers

Published on September 19, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

Malawi government is planning to contruct a new training college for special needs teachers in the country as one way […]

Bunda College bars 22 ring leaders from attending classes

Published on September 18, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

One week after opening the institution, authorities at Malawi’s Bunda College of Agriculture have barred 22 students from attending classes, […]

Polytechnic lecturers end strike, accept a 25% stepped salary increment

Published on September 17, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

Lecturers at Malawi Polytechnic have accepted a 25 percent salary increment offer and have since called off their strike, a […]

Construction at Malawi University of Science &Technology still on course

Published on September 12, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

Construction works on the University of Science and Technology in Thyolo are in progress, contrary to reports that the new […]

Malawi leader implores private sector involvement in university education

Published on September 9, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

Malawi’s President Mrs Joyce Banda has called for private sector involvement in the funding of higher education saying this will […]

Bunda College opens September 10

Published on September 8, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

Bunda College of Agriculture in Lilongwe is expected to open mid September; one month after the school was closed following […]

MSCE exams will not be re-administered despite leakage

Published on September 7, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

The Malawi government said Wednesday that irregularities that rocked the 2012 Malawi School Certificate of Education in July were so […]

Polytechnic strike costs K92 milllion and counting

Published on September 7, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

The strike by lecturers at the Malawi Polytechnic College in Blantyre—a constituent college of the University of Malawi, is becoming […]

Microsoft sets laboratories in schools

Published on September 6, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

A group of 15 Microsoft employees is in Malawi to help secondary schools set up computer laboratories. The initiative is […]

Bunda College to open mid September

Published on September 5, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

Bunda College of Agriculture in Lilongwe is expected to open mid September; one month after the school was closed following […]

Children still in initiation camps as schools open

Published on September 4, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

As first term for the 2012/2013 school year opened on Monday, reports are rife that several children in some parts […]