Malawi head Ephraim on fact-finder

AN AFRICAN headteacher has been touring Liverpool schools in a bid to boost teaching standards at his own primary in Malawi.

Fewer than three quarters of children can read and write in Malawi and one in four teachers lack formal training.

But charity SOS Children’s purpose-built village in Lilongwe represents a beacon of hope and Ephraim Chinyama is head of its 750-pupil SOS primary school.

Mr Chinyama and village director Kingston Zolowele have been looking at schools in the city to take ideas back.

He said: “We would love to have the resources that are here in Liverpool, but we will be able to adapt some of these things back in Malawi, such as using volunteers in lessons.

“I have really enjoyed my visits.”