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DRAFT
Revised based on the meeting on 11th Aug, 2003
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1. Background
• Malawi has experienced some major changes in education over the past eight
years. Many of these changes were triggered by the introduction of Free
Primary Education in 1994, as a result of which primary school enrolments
rose dramatically. Expansion of the primary sub-sector has in turn put pressure
on the secondary sub-sector as well.
• In order to deal with the expansion of the demand for secondary education, the
Government of Malawi (GOM) authorised the conversion of Distance
Education Centres (DECs) as a formal institution for delivering secondary
education in the name of Community Day Secondary School (CDSS) in 1998.
• Several harmful effects have been observed for this phenomenon in a short-
term, out of which the shortage of qualified teachers is devastating. About
67% of total enrolments in secondary education is accommodated in CDSS,
however, most of the teachers at CDSS are under qualified. The educational
statistics reveal that about 68% of teachers at secondary level out of 4,300 in
total is under qualified as they has only certificates for primary education.
• With the recognition of the situation above, the Policy & Investment
Framework (PIF), education’s response to GOM priority policy of poverty
reduction and addresses the national educational goals as spelt out in Vision
2020 and the MPRSP, understands that the strong secondary school system is
an important link between primary and higher levels of education.
2. Overall Goal,
The overall goal of the programme is to upgrade and improve the
performance of secondary education, especially in mathematics and science.
3. Outputs
The expected outputs through the programme are to;
• refine teaching and learning attitude based on the PDSI (Plan, Do, See,
Improve) and ASEI (Activity, Student-centred, Experiment and
Improvisation);
• establish a training system for the district trainers in pilot districts at Domasi
College of Education;
1. SEST - Chairperson
2. DTED - Secretary
3. DEMAS - Member
4. Director of Planning - “
5. Director of Secondary - “
6. Director of Basic - “
7. Director of Science and Technology - “
8. Chairperson of TSC - “
9. CHRMD - “
10. Director of Finance and Administration - “
11. Principal of DCE - “
12. Director of MIE - “
13. University of Malawi - “
14. Mzuzu University - “
b) Terms of Reference
The In-Service Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education, Science and
Technology (MoEST) shall:
1. decide on the policy, overall framework and expected each role among the
stakeholders;
2. monitor the INSET Programme;
3. approve Work Plans and budgets made by the Technical Committee;
4. receive Progress Reports from the Technical Committee;
5. meet quarterly or when necessary for extraordinary meeting.
(Annex 4)
DRAFT
Revised based on the meeting on 11th Aug, 2003
1. DTED - Chairperson
2. EMAS - Secretary
3. DCE - Member
4. Planning - “
5. Secondary - “
6. Basic - “
7. MIE (DSTD) - “
Head of Department of Science and -
8. “
Mathematics (Blantyre)
9. South East Division - “
10. Faculty of Education, Chancellor College - “
b) Terms of Reference
The Technical Committee of SMASSE In-Service shall:
1. prepare and implement Needs Assessment when necessary;
2. develop/refine the teaching and learning methods;
3. design the curriculum for INSET;
4. coordinate the implementation of INSET Programme during every
school holidays;
5. monitor and evaluate the implementation of INSET Programme;
6. initiate the implementation of budgets;
7. prepare and present periodic reports to the Steering Committee quarterly
or as necessary;
8. meet quarterly or as necessary;
9. disseminate good practices to teachers, inspectors, lecturers and pupils.