On February, 24, this year, I read an article on Nyasa times entitled: MALAWI LAW STUDENTS FROM PRIVATE GOVERNMENT PETITION GOVT. This article attracted 47 thoughts from different Malawians. As usual, other contribution were educative whilst others were castigatory. However, what i would like to make contribution on, is an issue HIGHER EDUCATION COUNCIL and MALAWIS NATIONAL QUALIFICATION FRAMEWORK. The arguments advanced by the students of a particular institution were that there institution was recognized by the state as such they purported that even their qualification should also be recognized for employment in government et cetera et cetera. Another area, i read was a comment number 37 by Kamwaza Bonomali who wrote who wrote that a qualification is just as good as the university you got it from, and he said that UNIMA is a trendsetter .... blah blah blah All in all, this tells us a very important missing gap in our education system that needs to be addressed adequately. In the past, during the tenure of Prof. Peter Mutharika as a Minister of Education, that Malawi was developing a HIGHER COUNCIL ON EDUCATION, and i believed that these guys did a great job, and that POLICIES that were to be developed were to be inclusive, deliberative, democratic for the betterment of education development in this country. Recently, we heard that Malamulo has started a B.Sc in Public Health, and Livingstonia University has done the same as well. Sooner rather than later, we shall hear a number of programs being introduced, but as a country we need to ask ourselves important questions. It is in Malawi where one does a Diploma for 3 years and 1 year internship and you still call it an ordinary Diploma. With many universities, mushrooming, it will be well for graduates of any of the colleges to be part of a proud higher education. It is obvious that in a country with well evaluated programs, that are placed at a National Qualification Framework. Surely,there is no problem of undermining qualifications from other stakeholders. In other countries, a BSc from one university is equally good as a BSc from the other and so on and so forth because of the roles of their NQFs. In actual fact, if really eveluated, degrees with an abnormally larger credits or small credits that are suitable for that particular level are trimmed. You can start your degree program from one university in the land and complete in the other without any problems. This has been our problem for quite long. A story is told of Dr. Grace Malenga and others, who firstly came to Malawi with a Master of Medicine degree and due to lack of a National Qualifications Framework and Council on Higher Education, the country had difficulties to recognize them as SPECIALISTS in their area. I would be very happy to see, these instruments of govt. being implemented in this country and that they should ensure that quality is maintained at all levels of education. My question is, POLITICAL PARTIES CAN YOU TELL US YOUR POLICIES ON EDUCATION? I would not want to see graduates of CUNIMA, MALAWI ADVENTIST UNIVERSITY, DAEYANG LUKE COLEGE also putting up their petitIons
Posted on: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 06:47:58 +0000
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