The Education Hub with Benedicto Kondowe Last Thursday, 16th June 2022, seventeen southern Africa based civil society organizations (CSOs), including Civil Society Education Coalition (CSEC), asked Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) governments to scale up investment towards education. …

If not for the fact that it is frequently on display, one would surely be shocked by the hypocrisy of the government on teachers’ promotions and access to their dues. In response to disappointing but unsurprising revelations that about 1,500 of the teachers who were promoted in March of this…

The Education Hub with Benedicto Kondowe. When we ask the girl child to stay in school — as first lady Monica Chakwera did this past Friday, 3 June 2022, at Chinyoli school ground in Bolero in the area of Paramount Chief Chikulamayembe in Rumphi, where she presided over a ground…

The Education Hub with Benedicto Kondowe Student demonstrations, varying in degrees of violence and impact, are seemingly a permanent feature of the education system in Malawi, at all levels. Year after year, school closures and disruptions in learning — be it in primary and secondary schools or the public colleges…

The Education Hub with Benedicto Kondowe A child’s ability to access quality education is often an indicator of which side of the poverty line they stand. To one side are the children who make up the centrepiece of studies and reports that paint a bleak picture. In 2021, for instance…

Before 2021, Mwanyongwe Primary School in Salima (Kanongola Zone, Traditional Authority Mwanza) had never received the school improvement grant (SIG) from the government. This impeded their chances of growing and developing as a school and compounded on existing challenges that they faced. In an ideal situation the grant, which was…

According to the 2020 education sector performance report, despite primary school enrolment and completion rates improving over the past five years, the completion rate as of 2020 was still below 60%. …

Lilongwe- Thursday, 20th August, 2021. We, at the Civil Society Education Coalition (CSEC), have observed with great concern that this year’s Malawi University of Science and Technology (MUST) selection (2021/22 academic year) has highlighted glaring disparities in the country’s education system when it comes to issues of equity and inclusivity. …

Lilongwe- Tuesday, 2nd August, 2021. The Civil Society Education Coalition (CSEC) welcomes government’s decision to constitute the Councils given that the appointments were long overdue after the commencement date of 4th May 2021 was gazetted. …