{"id":3478,"date":"2013-12-01T21:51:27","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T20:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/?p=3478"},"modified":"2014-10-18T12:29:04","modified_gmt":"2014-10-18T10:29:04","slug":"underperforming-students-at-chanco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/2013\/12\/underperforming-students-at-chanco\/","title":{"rendered":"Underperforming students at Chanco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is sad news: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyasatimes.com\/2013\/11\/29\/university-of-malawi-withdraws-116-unperforming-students-at-chanco\/\">http:\/\/www.nyasatimes.com\/2013\/11\/29\/university-of-malawi-withdraws-116-unperforming-students-at-chanco\/<\/a><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s so tough to get to Chanco in the first place and then this. Their relatives will be devastated. I&#8217;m sure lots of aunts and uncles paid towards their secondary school and exam fees.<\/p>\n<p>I know very few students that make it to uni level in Malawi. Most lack the points required to go on to tertiary education. <\/p>\n<p>If you pass MSCE but don&#8217;t have enough points in Maths and English, your only hope is to try again. All career options require a good MSCE in Maths and English. And there are only a limited number of training positions. Competition is high. Most school leavers end up repeating the exam 2 or 3 times.<\/p>\n<p>IMHO, the educational system requires more vocational training options. Like in Germany or Switzerland. Like Tevet but on a larger scale.<\/p>\n<p>But this is not easy to implement. I don&#8217;t know enough about the Malawi education system. I&#8217;m an outsider. I&#8217;m sure Malawi blogger <a href=\"http:\/\/mlauzi.blogspot.ch\/\">Steve Sharra<\/a> can provide more insight.<\/p>\n<p>There are few options for middle-of-the-road school leavers with a MSCE pass. <\/p>\n<p>Sidenote:<br \/>\nReminds me of a quote by John C. Maxwell to treat all your students well. Cos your C-level students will one day return and fund the expansion of your school.  <\/p>\n<p>Also confirmed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/important-trait-of-success-2013-11\">this Business Insider article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is sad news: http:\/\/www.nyasatimes.com\/2013\/11\/29\/university-of-malawi-withdraws-116-unperforming-students-at-chanco\/ It&#8217;s so tough to get to Chanco in the first place and then this. Their relatives will be devastated. I&#8217;m sure lots of aunts and uncles paid towards their secondary school and exam fees. I know very few students that make it to uni level in Malawi. Most lack the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malawian"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1LJxC-U6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}