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News Malawi » Education: Education Minister Msaka Calls for More Investment in Education…Hails Standard Bank

News channel or source: https://www.malawivoice.com/2026/09/07/education-minister-msaka-calls-for-more-investment-in-education-hails-standard-bank/
Published on: Monday 07 September 2026

Education Minister Bright Msaka has called for increased investment in Malawi’s education sector, saying the country still needs more schools, teachers and teaching and learning materials. Msaka made ...

News Malawi » Education: Standard Bank bets K490m on youth as growth engine

News channel or source: https://mwnation.com/standard-bank-bets-k490m-on-youth-as-growth-engine/
Published on: Monday 07 September 2026

Malawi Stock Exchange-listed Standard Bank plc has committed K490 million to a youth empowerment initiative that the bank says is designed to turn skills development into a pipeline for productivity, ...

News Malawi » Education: Malawi: Free Secondary Education Is Malawi's Most Radical Leap Toward Equality

News channel or source: https://allafrica.com/stories/202510220455.html
Published on: Wednesday 22 October 2025

Malawi has finally taken a step that history will remember -- the decision to make secondary education free from January 2026. Critics call it reckless. Realists call it revolutionary. And if the ...

News Malawi » Education: Malawi: Free Education in Malawi - a Historic Promise Meets a Tough Test

News channel or source: https://allafrica.com/stories/202510210118.html
Published on: Monday 20 October 2025

Education has always been seen as the key to a better future. But for many children in Malawi, that dream has been hard to reach. For years, school fees, overcrowded classrooms, and a shortage of ...

News Malawi » Education: Madonna School Controversy: Malawi Education Minister Says She's Building Classrooms, Not Schools

News channel or source: https://www.eonline.com/news/404517/madonna-school-controversy-malawi-education-minister-says-she-s-building-classrooms-not-schools
Published on: Wednesday 03 April 2013

"They have said they have built 10 schools in Malawi and on our side, what we know is that she [Madonna] has built classrooms. These are not schools from our side and really that's the essence of the ...

News Malawi » Education: Malawi Charity Addresses Funding Shortage for Primary Education

News channel or source: https://www.voanews.com/a/africa_malawi-charity-addresses-funding-shortage-primary-education/6177270.html
Published on: Tuesday 08 October 2019

NKHATABAY, MALAWI — Malawi is struggling to provide the free primary education to children it promised 25 years ago. Teachers say they were not prepared for the massive rise in student enrollment, ...

News Malawi » Education: Malawi: Submission the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women

News channel or source: https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/09/13/malawi-submission-committee-elimination-discrimination-against-women
Published on: Tuesday 12 September 2023

We write in advance of the 86th session of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (the “Committee”) and its review of Malawi under the Convention on the Elimination of All ...

News Malawi » Education: Rising standards of education in Malawi improve the future of refugees

News channel or source: https://www.unhcr.org/news/rising-standards-education-malawi-improve-future-refugees
Published on: Tuesday 12 December 2006

DZALEKA REFUGEE CAMP, Malawi, December 13 (UNHCR) - The students who file into classes at Umodzi Katubza Primary School on the edge of Malawi's main refugee camp are expected this month to repeat the ...

News Malawi » Education: OPINION | Free Secondary Education Is Malawi’s Most Radical Leap Toward Equality

News channel or source: https://www.nyasatimes.com/opinion-free-secondary-education-is-malawis-most-radical-leap-toward-equality/
Published on: Tuesday 21 October 2025

Malawi has finally taken a step that history will remember — the decision to make secondary education free from January 2026. Critics call it reckless. Realists call it revolutionary. And if the ...