The Malawi National Examination Board (Maneb) has a new Executive Director following the appointment of Dr Augustine Metadio Gundula to the top post replacing Roy Hauya who left the board last year. The board has also appointed Jack Chalimba as the deputy Executive Director, according to statement signed by the Board Chairperson Professor John Kalenga...
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Malawi exams body has new boss: Gundula replaces Hauya
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Skyway headteacher arrested over MSCE exam malpractice
A headteacher at Skyway Private Secondary School (Blantyre Campus), a Mr Kasiya, has been arrested over exam malpractice. Kasiya has been arrested for collecting and opening an envelope containing confidential instructions when his school was not supposed to have access to, Blantyre police and Malawi National Examinations Board (MANEB) officials have confirmed. MANEB Public Relations...
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Teachers refuse to mark JCE exams over allowances
Over 90 teachers who were expected to start marking Malawi Junior Certificate examination at Chilema Centre in the eastern city of Zomba on Monday, boycotted the exercise due to meagre allowance. The teachers have vowed to resume marking once Malawi National Examinations Board (MANEB) increases their allowance from K12.70 per paper to K25.00 per paper. One...
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Muckraker: Let’s think about the teacher
Everyone who is anyone today must thank someone who taught them to read and write, someone who taught them to add, subtract, divide and multiply, someone who taught them to mix chemicals, indeed someone who taught them to think critically. That someone is called a teacher. But look at how teachers are treated. Imagine teachers...
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MANEB to consider increasing allowances for JCE exams markers
The Malawi National Examinations Board (MANEB) says it is considering increasing allowances it gives to teachers who mark the Junior Certificate of Education (JCE) examination. This comes a week after over 90 teachers who were expected to start marking Malawi Junior Certificate examination at Chilema Centre in the eastern city of Zomba on Monday, boycotted the exercise with some returning home due to meager allowance. The teachers...
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Maneb releases JCE, PSCLE results
Malawi National Examination Board (Maneb) on Wednesday released results for 2014 Junior Certificate of Education (JCE) examinations and Primary School Leaving Certificate of Education PSLCE). According to a statement signed by secretary for education Thokozile Banda, out of the 124,999 candidates who sat for JCE, only 91,539 have passed the exams representing 73.2 percent pass...
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Fire guts MANEB warehouse: MSCE exams safe
A warehouse belonging to Malawi National Examinations Board (MANEB) in Zomba has been gutted down by fire. The fire, which started at around 1pm on Thursday has destroyed answer sheets for 2014 Junior Certificate of Education (JCE) and the Primary School Leaving Certificate of Education (PSLCE) examinations. Fire fighters from the Zomba City Council (ZCC)...
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Maneb introduces IDs for PSLCE exam candidates
Malawi Nations Examinations Board (MANEB) has introduced identity cards for internal candidates at Primary School Leaving Certificate of Education (PSLCE) examination level as part of stepping up security of national examinations. Previously, only external candidates at PSLCE examination level used to have such identity cards, just like candidates at JCE and MSCE examination levels. As...
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MSCE results out with pass rate of 54.8 percent – Malawi National Examinations Board
Malawi National Examinations Board (Maneb) and the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology have finally released the much awaited Malawi School Certificate of Education (MSCE) examination results with 54.8 percent pass rate. According to a statement from Maneb made available to Nyasa Times, out of 130, 293 candidates who wrote the examination, 71,486 have qualified...
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Malawi examination results concern CECOM
The Catholic Education Commission in Malawi (CECOM), an arm of the Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM) says it is concerned with the performance of students at Malawi National Examination Board’s (MANEB) examinations. In a statement signed by CECOM’s National Education Policy Coordinator, Steven Ndhlovu bemoaned the failure of students at Primary School Leaving Certificate Examinations...
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Malawi teacher students convicted for examination fraud
The First Grade Magistrate Court at Machinga Boma this week convicted and ordered almost 64 teacher students under the Open Distance Learning Programme to pay K15, 000 each after the court found them guilty of entering examination room with cell phones contrary to the Malawi National Examination Act. Passing judgment, First grade Magistrate, Esther Phiri...
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Nkhotakota form four students suspended indefinitely
Just four months before the final form four examinations, the Malawi School Certificate of Examinations, all form four students at Nkhotakota Secondary School have been indefinitely sent packing Wednesday for refusing to write the school’s mid-term examinations. The students action came as a protest strategy as they claim that they are far behind in learning...
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New board members hired for Malawi National Examinations Board, National Library
President Peter Mutharika has appointed Vice Chancellor of the University of Malawi (Unima) Professor John Saka and Professor John Uta as Board Chairpersons of the Malawi National Examinations Board (Maneb) and National Library Service (NLS), respectively. Mutharika made the appointments of board members of the institutions in exercise of powers conferred upon him by the...
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2 head teachers, pupil arrested over Malawi primary school exams foul play
Malawi Police are keeping in custody a 15 year-old pupil for gaining access to this year’s national Primary School Leaving Certificate of Education (PSLCE) examination at Likhubula Primary School in Blantyre. The pupil, name witheld on legal reasons gained the access by using examination number 25016/229, but had no Identity Card, which is issued by the...
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Bogus PSLCE candidate arrested in Chilomoni
Malawi Police in Chilomoni, Blantyre are keeping in custody 15 year old Livison Upile on suspicion that he wrote the just ended Primary School Leaving Certificate of Education-PSLCEs without registering with Malawi National Examination Board-MANEB. According to Beatrice Mikuwa, Public Relations Officer for Southern Region Police, Upile was taking an absentees sit and and was...
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Do not stop students from sitting exams, Maneb tells Malawi private schools
The Malawi National Examinations Board (Maneb) says it will not sit and watch candidates being prevented from sitting their national examinations because of school fees balances. Maneb spokesperson Simeon Maganga said they have learnt that some private schools are barring candidates from writing the 2015 Junior Certificate of Education examination because of school fees balances...
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Link of JCE, PSLCE results: Updated
The results were released on Thursday by the Malawi National Examination Board (Maneb) in conjunction with the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology.
According Maneb, a total of 134 490 students sat for JC examinations and 91 223 have qualified for the award JCE certificates, representing a pass rate of 67.8 percent.
This apparently gone down by 5.43 percent compared to 2014 results in which 124 999 students wrote the examinations and 91 539 passed, representing 73.23 percent a pass rate.
While 249 031 candidates sat for 2015 PSLCE and 168 221 pupils have have passed, representing a 67.6 percent pass rate.
However, Maneb has advised all candidates wishing to query their results to do so in writing through their heads of school where they
registered.
''MANEB will not entertain any query about the results made directly to the Board by candidates or any other individual. All queries should
reach MANEB by 14th October, 2015. After this date, no further queries will be entertained,'' warned the Board.
Students selected to start Form 1 have been requested to report to the schools they have been selected to by Monday, 7th September.
HERE THE LINKS OF RESULTS:
- 2015 PSLCE PASSLIST LINK-https://app.box.com/s/ktmxrojrd6chzfqu2zfj3g8aw7n4hixt …
- 2015 JCE PASSLIST LINK- https://app.box.com/s/lhiu3h9cg8gvkihh9g7u8npc00lgv6dx …
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Malawians poke MANEB over MSCE exam results
Maganga: MSCE results not yet in[/caption]
Maneb spokesperson, Simeon Maganga has pointed out that the national examinations board has noted with great concern the spread of “false news" on social media about the release of 2015 MSCE examination results.
“The truth of the matter is that processing of this examination is still underway hence the ‘news’ is a total lie. As per tradition, MANEB in conjunction with the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, will announce the release of the results as soon as processing is finished in the soonest possible time,” explains Maganga.
Although the news has been received with enthusiasm the said 2015 MSCE exam results gives two pass rates in the referred to statement; 58.8 and 54.8 percent.
“Malawi National Examinations Board (Maneb) and the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology have finally released the much awaited Malawi School Certificate of Education (MSCE) examinations with 58.8 percentage pass rate,” reads in part the purported Maneb media statement.
“Out of 136,382 candidates who wrote the examinations, 71,486 have qualified for the award of MSCE certificate representing 54.8 percent pass rate. Only 26 candidates were disqualified for the award of MSCE certificate for failing to adhere to examination regulations,” adds the fake statement.
A closer look at the statistics outlined in the said press release shows that it is a doctored document from last year’s Maneb press release which came out second week of October. Some of the figures are either exact or slightly twisted.
The motive behind such a move is not yet known but people speculate that this shows that they would want the results out the soonest. Last year’s pass rate was 54.8 percent.
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2015 MSCE Exams results await President Mutharika’s endorsement
President Mutharika: MSCE results awaiting his endorsement[/caption]
The results, according to the examining body, await President Peter Mutharika and Ministry of Education, Science and Technology's confirmation.
Maneb while responding to queries through its Facebook page disclosed on Saturday that it will release the results very soon as all the processes for the results are ready.
''Very soon they will be out after the Ministry of education confirmation & the office of the president,'' reads Maneb's message on Facebook.
Maneb pleaded for patience from the general public, saying it will inform the nation when the results are finally out.
''We are receiving alot of messages regarding M.S.C.E RESULTS please just wait for the coming few days''.
The 2014 MSCE examination results recorded a pass-rate increase at 54.8 percent compared to 52.48 percent recorded in 2013.
Out of 130, 293 candidates who wrote the examination in 2014, 71,486 qualified for the award of MSCE certificate.
Only 26 candidates were disqualified for failing to adhere to examination regulations.
Female candidates managed to get 46.94 percent pass rate as 27,306 out of 58,170 candidates passed the examination while out of 72,123 male candidates 44,180 qualified for the award of MSCE, representing 61.26 percent.
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Malawi abolishes JCE exams, Std 8 certificates: Mutharika approves reforms
Minister of Education Science and Technology Dr. Emmanuel Fabiano and Mrs Lonely Magreta , the PS of education, sharing notes as education reforms gets approved by President - Pic by Stanley Makuti[/caption]
Public Service Reforms Management Unit spokesperson,Constance Kilimo, confirmed that President Peter Muntharika has approved the reforms, saying the organisations were communicated to “ start implementation from October 1 (2015). “
Pupils and guardians who want to have documentation on the PSLCE will have to request the Malawi National Examination Board (MANEB for a transcript, according to Kalimo.
Kalimo said Maneb will be saving K20 million in printing costs of PSLCE and another K2 billion on the decision concerning JCE.
Maneb proposed to abolish JCE as they believe that the paper has lost value and is not in demand by employers.
Commenting in the Daily Times newspaper, education expert Dr Steve Sharra said the rationale behind the decisions seems to be more about economic necessity than changes in the society.
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