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US$90-million US funded construction of Malawi Schools starts
February 28, 2020 / Tawonga Nyirenda Mayuni
Malawi’s Minister of Education, Science and Technology, William Susuwele, says the Malawi Government has started the construction of 250 Day Secondary Schools in the country under the US funded Secondary Education Expansion for Development (SEED) project.
Susuwele told journalists in Lilongwe that government has also embarked on expansion of 100 Community day secondary schools under the World Bank-funded Equity with Quality Learning at Secondary (EQUALS) project.
The Minister said the aim of the two projects is to address the problem of low transition rate of students from primary school to secondary school due to lack of secondary school infrastructure.
“I am aware that transition rate from primary to secondary schools remains low. This has been so due to inadequate secondary school infrastructure,” he said
The Minister said with such infrastructure in place, access to education will increase by more than double in four years’ time.
The Minister also announced that government has abolished the quota system of selecting students into public universities. According to Susuwele, the system which has been operational since 1987 has been abolished because of the changes in the education sector, compared to the situation in 1987.
” Since quota was introduced in 1987, the context has changed as we now have reasonable spaces in public universities,” he said
Meanwhile, the ministry has also reintroduced the Junior Certificate Examinations (JCE) on grounds that many students were relaxing after the examinations were abolished which resulted in their failure in the Malawi School Certificate of Education (MSCE). The first JCE examinations will be administered in 2021.
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