This is an interesting development. If indeed fees is to be introduced, will it be an economic fee ? Is it meant to pay for cost of training a teacher? . I fear few candidates will opt for teaching.
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I do not agree with introducing fees for would be primary school teachers. This is because
1. Malawi has acute shortages of teachers. We are still far much behind in reducing the teacher to pupil ratio. Let's just make it a priority to train teachers at whatever cost.
2. Secondly, how will govt ensure that trained teachers go to rural areas after they have been trained at their own cost?
3. We need committed students, yes, but what about govt commitment of providing services to her citizens. Let's not look at the teachers as the outcome but the children who need teachers to be in their schools.
4. What will change or improve in the teacher training program if fees is introduced?
There are many other ways of improving teacher training in Malawi but in my opinion introducing fees is not one of such ways. Maybe the govt can remove the K5,000. monthly allowance given to students but not making them pay. It's also time to introduce diploma and degree programs for primary school teachers. Our children deserve better and well trained teachers.
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Good points, Liv.. We could add the following:
4. A small sample of current IPTE students and their socio-economic status to establish whether they could have managed to pay commercial fees.
5.. How many neighbouring countries are charging fees for TE programmes.I was looking at ESIP II. It has three funding scenarios: High, Medium and Low. High is if donors continue funding.. Low is if there's no donor funding. Looks like MoEST has realised we are on the Low scenario already. Under that scenario, some TTCs are anticipated to close, or at least to become inactive.
| Bwalo, Mike is right. Two years ago a certain TTC was given about 950students after selection, only about 870 reported. By the end of first year only about 840 sat for MANEB exams. About 20 more or so withdrew from teaching practice in their second year. What is more humiliating is that some would even withdraw to join Police and Prison Service. In most countries in the SADC they are now offering diplomas and students pay fees. Students in technical Colleges are paying for bricklaying and secretarial courses, why can't primary school teachers? In Malawi we don't treat free things serously; think of free primary education; think of FISP; think of "malo. odzigulira." Unless there is opportunity cost
attached to teacher training people would still treat teaching as a sort of economic relief to school leavers, not as a pofession. Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android
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| Much as i agree that we cannot continue to have everything for free. It really would be a big planning gap if there would be no bursaries. Emperical evidence is plenty that most teachers or would be teachers come from simple and poor families. Often these individuals are the first family movers Mzondi |
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