[civsoc-mw] [BwalolaAphunzitsi] Malawi’s education crisis and the use of evidence in policy, planning and practice | Afrika Aphukira

[Adamson S. Muula]

Dear Chikondi,

Could you please clarify what you mean? Good afternoon.

adamson

On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 at 23:47, chikondi maleta <chikmaleta at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Just be careful. Stats can also be used to further an agenda which is in
> truest sense misrepresented. E.g. how big is the base on the pyramid for
> the 6 million primary school going children?
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> *Subject:* Re: [BwalolaAphunzitsi] Malawi’s education crisis and the use
> of evidence in policy, planning and practice | Afrika Aphukira
>
> True and thst is exactly the problem  we notice when the crisis  has
> spilled over in the streets . We neef to be a  nation that use stastical
> backed  strategies
>
> On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 17:26 Steve Sharra, <stevesharra at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Malawi’s education crisis and the use of evidence in policy, planning and
> practice
>
> http://mlauzi.blogspot.com/2020/12/malawis-education-crisis-and-use-of.html
>
>
> "When the report of the 2018 Malawi Population and Housing Census was
> released in May 2019, there was one statistic that I found astounding.
> Amongst 14-17 year-old Malawian youths, the official secondary school age
> bracket, 82 percent of them were not in school. Only 18 percent were. I
> expected this statistic, which I considered to be a national crisis, to
> make front page and news headlines. It did not. Perhaps understandably. The
> focus was on the overall population figure, the percentage of young people,
> and other equally important findings. The education statistics largely went
> unnoticed."
>
> Full:
> http://mlauzi.blogspot.com/2020/12/malawis-education-crisis-and-use-of.html
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