[Civsoc-mw] ‘That we be free from fear’: Thoughts on education and Malawi at 54

[Steve Sharra]

Hi Temwa,

As I indicate in the piece, 255,000 students sat the 2017 PSLCE exam, out
of 877,000 that entered Standard 1 in 2009.

I'm trying to find out how many sat the 2018 PSLCE. The newspapers usually
carry the figure but curiously none of the articles accessible online
mention the figure.

Steve

On Sat, 7 Jul 2018 06:58 temwa malange, <temwamalange at gmail.com> wrote:

> Mlauzi,
>
> "100,000 students enter secondary school each year". This is from a total
> of about 800,000 primary school (standard 8 graduates).  Is that correct?
>
> On Sat, Jul 7, 2018, 04:17 Steve Sharra <stevesharra at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Friday, July 06, 2018
>>
>>
>> http://mlauzi.blogspot.com/2018/07/that-we-be-free-from-fear-thoughts-on.html
>>
>> On 6th July 1964, fifty-four years ago, there were four secondary
>> schools in Malawi, and not a single university. There was Blantyre
>> Secondary School, Zomba Catholic Secondary School, Dedza Secondary
>> School, and Mzuzu Government Secondary School. There were close to
>> 360,000 primary school learners, and the country had between 3 and 4
>> million people. That year, 6,000 Malawians entered secondary school to
>> start Form 1. The University of Malawi was opened exactly three months
>> after independence, on 6th October 1964. Its first intake was 180
>> students (other sources put the figure at 90).
>>
>> Fifty-four years later, there are over 1,400 secondary schools in
>> Malawi and just over 380,000 secondary school students. About 100,000
>> students enter Form 1 each year. There are four public universities
>> with about 20,000 students. The University of Malawi alone has 13,000
>> students. There are more than 28 private universities, accommodating
>> what can be estimated to be close to 20,000 students, although the
>> real number could be less or more than this.
>>
>> full:
>> http://mlauzi.blogspot.com/2018/07/that-we-be-free-from-fear-thoughts-on.html
>>
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