Chikwawa TTC

Chikwawa TTC (Chikwawa Teacher Training College) is a public college for the training of primary school teachers in Chikwawa District, in the Lower Shire Valley of southern Malawi. The college was built under a government project to construct three new teacher training colleges, at Livingstonia in Rumphi District, at Mchinji and at Chikwawa, each designed to accommodate 1,000 trainees. The OPEC Fund for International Development, one of the project's financiers, records the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology as the executing agency, the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) as loan administrator and a total project cost of US$34 million, and lists the project as completed. Public teacher training colleges come under the Ministry of Education's Directorate of Teacher Education and Development, which counts 19 teacher training colleges in Malawi, 10 public and 9 private. The Directorate runs the annual recruitment of students into the Initial Primary Teacher Education (IPTE) programme at public colleges, done electronically with support from the National Council for Higher Education. Trainees are examined and certified by the Malawi National Examinations Board through the Primary Teacher Certificate of Education (PTCE). Chikwawa, the district headquarters, stands on the west bank of the Shire River almost 50 km south of Blantyre. Majete Wildlife Reserve and Lengwe National Park lie nearby, and the river here holds large numbers of hippopotamus and crocodiles. The college has not published its own contact details or intake dates; recruitment enquiries go to the Directorate of Teacher Education and Development at dted@education.gov.mw.

Chikwawa, Malawi
Chikwawa

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