The Malawi government has partnered with Multichoice Africa, a South Africa-based digital satellite television broadcaster, to provide free school TV subscriptions and TV sets to the country’s secondary schools, Multichoice Director for Corporate Affairs in Africa, Caroline Creasy, said in Lilongwe on Friday.
Creasy said that the programme would enhance spread of information, communication and technology, thereby promoting education in Malawi.
« Students will have visuals of what they will be learning in class which will make easy understanding between teachers and the pupils, » she said.
Creasy said the package will have informative programmes in English, history, geography, mathematics and biology through the DSTV programmes of Discovery, Mindset, Animal Planet, National Planet, National Geographic and History among others.
She said Multichoice has earmarked 20 Malawi secondary schools to kick-start the programme, which is being implemented in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries of Namibia, Zambia, Botswana and in Nigeria where it has produced good results, she said.
Deputy Minister for Education, Olive Masanza, said the programme was one way of promoting education in the country. « The project will facilitate the curricular content of our secondary schools, » she added.
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