First district boarding secondary school in Machinga to open Jan 13
Government through the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology says is set to open first district boarding secondary school in Machinga on Monday January 13 2020.
Minister of Education, Science and Technology, Dr. William Susuwele Banda disclosed the good tidings on Friday.
“The construction of Machinga Secondary School is completed. The Ministry has therefore selected form one and two students, who are expected to report for classes on Monday the 13th of January, 2020,” said Susuwele Banda
According to the Minister, the list of the selected students is available at all Secondary Schools in Machinga, Education Division Manager (Zomba) and District Education Office (Machinga).
The District had no secondary school after delinking Balaka from Machinga District Council some years ago.
In a related development, the Ministry has also ordered the re-opening of four secondary schools which were closed due to various forms of indiscipline displayed by students.
The schools are Rumphi Secondary, Lunzu Secondary, St Michaels Girls Secondary and Magawa Secondary Schools.
“We would like to call upon parents and guardians to play their rightful role in counseling their wards to refrain from vandalizing school property when there are disagreements with school management,” appealed Susuwele while ordering that the above mentioned schools should re-open on 6 January.
The Ministry also appealed to Head teachers and their school management to resolve any grievances raised by students with ultimate speed to avoid issues escalating into violence and vandalism.
The school plan is poor. Malawians let us go with time why do we allow ourselves to remain behind like this
Too little too late BUT anyway that’s a good start for others to continue.
But I went to district government boarding secondary school thirty years ago, why should this be the first one? Politics of failure.
Dear minister and your friends —what we are seeing here is not worth publicity —Where are boarding facilities ; domitaries ;furnished classrooms ;toilets ; physical science Lab; biology lab, and the like ?? Don’t jump into opening schools without providing necessary necessities please !
There is nothing like a District Secondary School in the categorisation of schools, the writer and the Minister are half-baked in this jargon… We have National/grant aided secondary Schools, Conventional, Day and Community Day Secondary schools…. please do thorough research before you throw your shit on a piece of paper…..
But my question is , are you going to allow students from the northern region to be selected to this boarding secondary school?
Thanks to the American Government for their generosity
Look after and maintain schools. Teach students to be responsible. There must be harsh sentences for students that vandalize school infrastructure