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| Michael Nevin, Vincent Ghambi, David Mundell |
Ministry of Education, Science and Technology has hailed Government of United Kingdom (UK) for its education progamme ‘Connecting Classrooms’ for being one strand supporting Malawi in improving education.
Connecting Classrooms is a UK’s programme which is benefiting individuals and institutions globally through research, links and scholarships.
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| Vincent Ghambi |
Speaking at the launch of the third phase of the programme in Lilongwe, Deputy Minister of Education, Science and Technology, Vincent N’gambi said the programme will support development of core skills of young people and help teachers to impart necessary skills to students.
“If people from UK they come and teach our students and our teachers trained by the British Government, this is indeed good development as far as education in Malawi is concerned” he said
The education minister hailed the programe's new phase focus on attainment of Core Skills and said the launch of this third phase of Connecting Classrooms coincides with the introduction of the new curriculum for secondary schools this school year and further wellcomed the focus for thennext three years of the programme on working with Secondary Schools sector.
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| Vincent Ghambi exchanging gifts with David Mundell |
"I believe it will make a valuable contribution to two priority policy goals of improving quality and equity in the secondary schools and improving management of secondary schools. Connecting Classrooms will support teachers to introduce young people to new ways of working, new ways of thinking, and new ways of living in a global world. It does this by providing opportunities for education professional and policy makers to contribute to education discourse in national, regional and global forums, supporting system development and through the provision of continuous professional development opportunities for teachers and school leaders"
He underlined that the opportunities for international collaboration for both teachers and learners in Malawi and the UK brings forth additional benefits saying as it offers early exposure for our young people to the outside world and help foster a natural curiosity and deeper understanding that will benefit their future engagement with the world of work, higher education and communities in which they live.
“As Government we are doing a lot to make sure that this UK Government is gets full support from my Ministry and Malawi Government” he added
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| David Mundell |
The visiting Scotland Secretary of State David Mundell who also graced the occasion said was delighted that the programme has began to bear fruitful results through partnerships that schools and teachers have established with their friends in the UK.
“What this initiative mean is to link schools in Scotland and the rest of Britain with schools here in Malawi and it means teachers can share experiences with teachers back in Britain and that pupils in Britain can get a real feel for Malawi and the self support that they can give to Malawi and schools. And that is real sharing of experiences so that both sides came out of this better than they went into it”
“Friendships have been developed between Scotland teachers and Malawi, friendships have developed between pupils who had opportunities to go between schools. I know from my own constituency schools that have a very strong links now with schools in Malawi” said Mundell
He also urged Malawi Government to further enhance the programme by making sure that more schools are involved in the Connecting Classrooms programme
“I think that it is good to see that there is spread of schools across the whole of Malawi because obviously it is quite different in the South and cities in the North so I think it is very encouraging to see that there are schools in rural areas, schools in towns and cities taking part. So am pleased that there is whole range of schools and when I look at the list of schools in Scotland I see that they got from very north of Scotland to the South of Scotland cities and rural areas. So there is good range of schools and experiences in there.”David Mundell
There has been a lot of schools who have already been in the previous phases of connecting classrooms initiative and more are coming in this phase and it is expected that more schools will want to join in the programe because of the benefits.
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