Month: April 2019 Posts

Recruitment of teachers commences

Apr 17, 2019 Richard Jimu 3 &

The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology says recruitment of both primary and secondary school teachers has commenced following availability of funds. This is contained in a press statement released by the Ministry dated 16th… ...

Excluded teachers flood DEM offices for promotion claims

Apr 11, 2019 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

Primary and secondary school teachers are flooding District Education Managers (DEM) offices to file complaints after being overlooked for promotion. A visit by this reporter to DEMs offices in Lilongwe saw teachers in their large… ...

Desperation! DPP government promotes dead and ghost teachers

Apr 09, 2019 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

In a bid to appease teachers before the May elections, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government has promoted dead teachers. Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MoEST) Principal Secretary Justin Saidi has confirmed that some… ...

Breaking: Government promotes 20 thousand teachers

Apr 03, 2019 Lindiwe Sambalikagwa 1 &

The Malawi government has promoted up to 20,000 teachers effective this month, it has been confirmed. This has been confirmed by Principal Secretaries in the Education and Local Government Ministries Justin Saidi and Charles Kalemba… ...

Govt under fire for ignoring abuse of school funds

Nov 04, 2018 Bright Malenga 0 &

Primary school teachers in the country have accused government of not listening to calls from organisations to bring to book headteachers and school management committees suspected of mismanaging School Improvement Grant (SIG). The teachers alleged… ...

Over 23,000 trained teachers remain unemployed

Feb 23, 2017 Archangel Nzangaya 65 &

The Parliamentary Committee on Education (PCE) has disclosed that 23,000 teachers who were trained for primary school teaching are still waiting for employment. This is according to chairpeson of PCE Elias Chakwera who is also… ...