quota system Archives

Talking Blues Xtra: Merit or quota?

Jan 17, 2021 Mapwiya Muulupale 0 &

The Ministry of Education is under attack. The issue? The selection of the 2019/20 PSLCE candidates to national secondary schools whose allocation of students to Malawi’s 24 national secondary schools is as below: Northern Education… ...

Secondary selection: Central Region beats the North, South combined

Jan 07, 2021 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

The number of students from the Central Region selected to secondary schools nearly beats the total number of students from the North and South, just falling shy with two students. It is currently not established… ...

No Act of Parliament needed on quota abolishment – Govt

Mar 07, 2020 Russell Kondowe 0 &

The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology says an Act of Parliament is not required for the abolishment of quota system to be valid since a verbal pronouncement is enough. Principal Secretary in the Ministry… ...

Government abolishes quota, reintroduces JCE

Feb 27, 2020 Russell Chimbayo 0 &

Government, through the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, has abolished the quota system of selecting students to public universities and has reintroduced the Junior Certificate of Education (JCE). Minister of Education, Science and Technology,… ...

Govt accused of secretly using quota in secondary school selection

Jan 13, 2020 Richard Jimu 1 &

Anti-quota protesters have accused the President Peter Mutharika administration of secretly using quota system in selection of students to public secondary schools. Today, the protesters demonstrated in Mzuzu to show their anger over the continued… ...

Malawi Govt accepts defeat on quota system: Form 1 second selection results out

Dec 27, 2019 Daniel Sapuli 0 &

The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology has used the merit system to select students to secondary schools. In the Form One Second selection, a total number of 17,831 students have been selected into various… ...

Govt scraps quota system in Form One selection

Oct 23, 2019 Lindiwe Sambalikagwa 0 &

Government says it will no longer use quota system when allocating public secondary school places to students. The Ministry of Education said this in a statement on Tuesday signed by Secretary for Education, Science and… ...