Lilongwe District Education Manager

Lilongwe District Education Manager is the office of the District Education Manager (DEM) for Lilongwe, the district that surrounds Malawi's capital city in the Central Region. Malawi's Ministry of Education, whose headquarters are at Capital Hill in Lilongwe, organises its field administration into six education divisions: Northern, Central East, Central West, South East, South West and Shire Highlands. In the ministry's own description, each division coordinates education services and implementation support in its region. Schools in the district follow the national system. Primary education runs from Standard 1 to Standard 8 and ends with the Primary School Leaving Certificate Examination (PSLCE), set by the Malawi National Examinations Board (MANEB); tuition has been free in government primary schools since 1994. Secondary education runs from Form 1 to Form 4 and ends with the Malawi School Certificate of Education (MSCE), also set by MANEB. Community day secondary schools (CDSS) grew out of the former distance-education centres converted in 1998. Lilongwe became Malawi's capital in 1975, replacing Zomba, and is the country's largest city, with 989,318 residents at the 2018 census. The city is divided into numbered areas, the numbers having been assigned in the order the areas were developed rather than by position. Lilongwe District covers 6,159 square kilometres and had 1,346,360 residents at the 2018 census. The office has not published its own telephone number, email address or opening hours; general enquiries can go to the Ministry of Education at Capital Hill on +265 1 789 416 or info@education.gov.mw, which gives its hours as Monday to Friday, 08:00 to 17:00.

2Q4C+2C9, Lilongwe, Malawi
Lilongwe

13°59′41″S 33°46′16″E