Month: April 2021 Posts

Child NGO wants supplementary exams for MSCE candidates

Apr 06, 2021 Mwayi Mkandawire 0 &

A child focused non-governmental organisation (NGO) has called on Malawi National Examinations Board (MANEB) to administer supplementary examinations for students who have failed the 2020 Malawi School Certificate of Education (MSCE) exams. The NGO, Eye… ...

All girls fail MSCE exams at Chitheka CDSS in Nkhatabay

Apr 04, 2021 Thula Chisamba 0 &

All girls who sat for the Malawi Schools Certificate of Education (MSCE) exams at Chitheka Community Day Secondary School in Nkhatabay have failed. A list of results in possession of this reporter shows that only… ...

Experts, candidates demand MANEB to release MSCE results

Mar 27, 2021 Archangel Nzangaya 0 &

Education experts together with students who sat for Malawi School Certificate of Education (MSCE) examinations this year have asked the Malawi National Examinations Board (MANEB) to release the results as soon as possible. The development… ...

Court releases Chiunda, 3 others on bail

Feb 09, 2021 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

By Synd Kalimbuka Zomba Senior Resident Magistrate has granted bail to the suspended Malawi National Examinations Board (MANEB) Director Gerald Chiunda and three others. The four were charged with failure to execute their positions in… ...

Chiunda, three others to remain in cell

Feb 04, 2021 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

By Synd Kalimbuka Senior Resident Magistrate court in Zomba will make a bail ruling on Tuesday in the case in which suspended Malawi National Examinations Board (MANEB) Executive Director Gerald Chiunda and three others are… ...

Former Maneb boss arrested over exam leakage

Feb 03, 2021 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

Police have arrested former executive director of Malawi National Examinations Board (Maneb) Gerald Chiunda over leakage of Malawi School Certificate of Education (MSCE) exams. Eastern Region Police spokesperson Joseph Sauka has confirmed that police are… ...

MSCE Exams to proceed

Jan 18, 2021 Archangel Nzangaya 0 &

The Malawi government through the ministry of education has announced that the on-going Malawi School Certificate of Education (MSCE) Examinations will continue as planned. The announcement follows the Presidential address on Sunday, January, 17, 2021,… ...

225, 387 learners pass Malawi PSLCE exams, 38 percent selected to secondary schools

Jan 04, 2021 Lindiwe Sambalikagwa 0 &

The Ministry of Education has announced the Primary School Leaving Certificate of Education (PSLCE) exam results which shows that out of 277, 007 candidates, 225, 387 have passed representing 81.37 percent pass rate, the highest… ...

Malawi soldiers engaged to provide MSCE exam security

Dec 08, 2020 Mwayi Mkandawire 0 &

The Malawi Defence Force (MDF) has been engaged to provide security during preparations for and administration of Malawi School Certificate of Education (MSCE) exams. Malawi National Examinations Board (MANEB) acting executive director Dorothy Nampota has… ...

Form Four students to return to school on December 28

Nov 23, 2020 Mwayi Mkandawire 0 &

The Ministry of Education has directed that Form Four student should return to school on December 28 and the students will sit for the fresh Malawi School Certificate of Education (MSCE) exams within a month… ...

Maneb boss Chiunda suspended

Nov 12, 2020 Russell Kondowe 0 &

The Malawi National Examinations Board (Maneb) has suspended Executive Director Gerald Axel Chiunda over gross negligence which led to the leakage of the 2020 Malawi School Certificate of Education (MSCE) examinations. According to a letter… ...

Talking Blues: Let the MSCE and NOCMA fiascos serve as Chakwera’s wake-up call

Nov 08, 2020 Mapwiya Muulupale 0 &

Yet to be written is the story of Malawi Congress Party (MCP)’s perseverance when most of its liberation peers have since gone into oblivion. MCP’s history is pregnant with lessons. Not only has MCP survived,… ...

Chakwera orders MANEB to hold fresh exams no later than January

Nov 05, 2020 Mwayi Mkandawire 0 &

President Lazarus Chakwera says the fresh Malawi School Certificate of Education (MSCE) exams must be administered no later than January. The Malawi leader was speaking on Thursday in a national address on the cancellation of… ...

Nankhumwa calls for commission of inquiry on exam leakage

Nov 05, 2020 Mwayi Mkandawire 0 &

Leader of Opposition Kondwani Nankhumwa has called on President Lazarus Chakwera to immediately set up a Commission of Inquiry in order to find out the cause of the leakage of examination papers. He made the… ...

HRDC wants MSCE exams re-administered in a month’s time

Nov 04, 2020 Andrew Cane Chilapondwa 0 &

The Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) has ordered the Malawi government to re-administer the Malawi School Certificate of Education (MSCE) exams in a month's time. HRDC says the proposed timeframe by government is too long… ...