Education Division Manager

Education Division Manager is a government office on the M5 in Mzuzu, Malawi, housing the Education Division Manager for the Ministry of Education's Northern Education Division. The Education Division Manager is the official who heads a division office. The Ministry of Education lists six education divisions: Northern, Central East, Central West, South East, South West and Shire Highlands. It describes the Northern Education Division as coordinating education services and implementation support in the Northern Region. Government guidelines on the devolution of education functions to district assemblies, issued by the then Ministry of Education, Science and Technology in 2008, describe the division offices as the Ministry's "extended arms", responsible for disseminating its policies and strategies and for the administration and coordination of education services. Under those guidelines, Education Division Managers examine and approve district requests to establish new schools, including by visiting proposed sites. Mzuzu is the capital of the Northern Region and Malawi's third-largest city, with 221,272 residents at the 2018 census. It lies in Mzimba District, grew up around a tung oil estate established in 1947, and received city status in 1985. The city stands on the M1 and is the northern end of the M5. The Ministry has not published office hours or a direct line for the Mzuzu office. Its general enquiries line at Capital Hill, Lilongwe, as given on the Ministry's website, is +265 1 789 416, and its email address is info@education.gov.mw.

G2Q8+PRM, M5, Mzuzu, Malawi
Mzimba

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