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REPORT
OF
FIELD SURVEY
IN
NORTH DIVISION
July 2003
Yoshihito NAKAYAMA
Education Planning Adviser
Ministry of Education, Science & Technology, Malawi
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1.PURPOSES OF THE FIELD SURVEY ________________________________3
2.SCHEDULE AND PLACE VISITED ___________________________________3
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Observations/Issues:
1) The schools in urban city like Mzuzu face the problem of law participation and
contribution from communities.
2) The enrolment is expanding extraordinary, especially in the suburb of the city.
3) In terms of the number of primary teachers, Mzuzu urban has little problem.
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Proposed Actions
1) Identify and priotraise issues facing at school level in secondary education;
2) Encourage MoEST and PRISAM (Private Schools Association in Malawi) to
inspect private secondary school which have not satisfied minimum requirement as
educational institutions;
3) Encourage the North Divisional Office to be transparent on disbursement of the
budget in each district.
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Proposed Actions:
1) The capacity of handling logistics for proceeding NIPDEP pilot projects should
be strengthen;
2) NIPDEP JICA team and core members are advisable to give more technical
advice on the process of pilot project in each pilot district.
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of Education
3) No. of Academic Professors: 10
Staffs: Lectures: 27 of Master holders, 24 of B.A. holders
2 professors from Fullbright scholarship scheme (one for
director of research, the other for professor of education)
4) Tuition 321,000MK/year (50,000MK is paid by students and the rest
is subsidised by the government)
5) Partnership with Conducting INSET for secondary teachers collaborating with
other development USAID
partners
6) Shortage of staffs Staffs for science and math department are critical.
Filling number of post/establishment post
Physics 0/2, Biology 3/3, Chemistry 0/3, Mathematics 5/10
Total 8/18 (44%)
After the project, Mzuzu is planning to present the next proposal to follow up
activities; however, it is not pursuing the institutionalisation of INSET at secondary
education in targeting areas.
Proposed Actions:
1) Need to promote collaboration with Domasi College of Education in the area of
INSET for secondary education;
2) Mzuzu required regular feed back of the INSET activities to MoEST and other
development partners.
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Challenges/Issues
1) Shortage of Classrooms (requested to DEM or MASAF but no response so far);
2) Staff room;
3) Teachers’ houses;
4) Furniture;
5) Sanitary facilities (Toilets);
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Basic Information
1 Students Enrolled: Enrolled
Boy Girl Total
Standard 1 235 244 479
Standard 2 186 222 408
Standard 3 295 344 639
Standard 4 232 250 482
Standard 5 140 172 312
Standard 6 107 139 246
Standard 7 116 145 261
Standard 8 88 113 201
Total 1,399 1,629 3,028
2 Number of Teachers & Total: 61 (Male: Female = 11:53
their qualifications: 16 temporary teachers
3 Facilities: 8 classrooms (2 classrooms×4 blocks) for 46 classes
1 administration block
1 head teacher’s house
250 plastic chair; Supplies Unit
10 plastic chair: School Committee
96 sets of desk and chair
Double shift: 1-2, 7-8: morning session, 3-6: afternoon
session
Established in 1994 supported by IDA
4 Performance: Year Boys Girls
1994/95 19 17
1995/96 30 27
1996/97 15 20
1997/98 13 12
1998/99 9 9
1999/2000 9 12
2000/01 12 13
* The number of students who are selected to secondary
* In 2000/01, PSLCE; 70 passed out of 108
Achievements
Conducting INSET within a school using the idea of “Joyful Learning” supported by
UNICEF;
Challenges/Issues
1) Lack of facilities;
2) Security issues (vandalism within the community);
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3) Teachers’ houses;
4) Toilets
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MASASA CDSS
Basic Information:
1 Students Enrolled: Boys Girls Total
Form 1 32 38 70
Form 2 37 35 72
Form 3 40 30 70
Form 4 - - 64
Total - - 276
2 Number of Teachers & Total: 13 (Male: Female = 7:6)
their qualifications: All staffs are MSCE holders, and 5 of which are the first
cohort of SSTEP project then will be upgraded to
diploma)
3 Facilities: 3 classrooms and 1 library (2 blocks), 1 staff room
74 sets of desk and chair
4 Performance: In 2002, 27 passed and 2 selected out of 50 candidates
Challenges/Issues
1) Shortage facilities;
2) Lack of learning materials
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Basic Information:
1 Students Enrolled: Boys Girls Total
Form 1 97 104 201
Form 2 114 91 205
Form 3 108 65 173
Form 4 146 102 248
Total 465 362 827
* 24 classes
* Double shift system
2 Number of Teachers & Total: 39
their qualifications: 2 unqualified (1 female and 1 male)
3 Facilities: 20 classrooms, 1 library, 1 multipurpose-library, 1 Home
Economics Library, 13 teachers’ houses, administration
blocks
4 Performance: In 2002, 143 passed 62 selected out of 214, the highest
passing rate in government shools
Challenges/Issues
Shortage of teachers
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