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Table 2: Academic Qualifications for Primary School Teachers
Qualification level Frequency Valid Percent Cumulative Percent
Valid JCE 57 23.3 23.3
MSCE 184 75.1 98.4
Diploma 2 .8 99.2
GCE 2 1 .4 99.6
Cambridge
Certificate
1 .4 100.0
Total 245 100.0
Total 300
Source: Authors Analyzed Raw Data
Out of all teachers interviewed, 23% have Junior Certificate of Education (JCE)
academic qualifications with the rest being qualified higher. The teaching service has
had a minimum qualification standard of JCE in the recent decades, and raised it to
Malawi School Certificate of Education (MSCE) academic qualifications in early 2000.
Thus many teachers that have JCE qualifications have more years of experience than
those on MSCE, which in turn off-sets the deficiency. This means that delivery of
quality education services is very possible since the sector has more or less enough
personnel qualified to minimum standards.
While the above are academic qualifications, for one to become a teacher, he/she
must go for professional training at the Teachers Training Colleges (TTC) in Malawi.
It is after attending this training at these colleges that one is either qualified or is still
a trainee. Among those that are described as ‘qualified’, they are graded according to
qualifications, years of experience and promotion attended. The figure below shows
the teacher types (according to whether they have undergone full teacher training
and are certified or not).
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GCE means General Certificate of Education, usually Internationally obtained
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