Shire Highlands Education Division Office

Shire Highlands Education Division Office is the regional office of the Shire Highlands Education Division, one of the six education divisions of Malawi's Ministry of Education, serving four districts in the south of the country. According to the Ministry's website, the division "coordinates education services and implementation support in the Shire Highlands area". An environmental and social management plan issued by the Ministry in May 2023 defines the division as comprising Mulanje, Phalombe, Chiradzulu and Thyolo districts in the Southern Region. The other five divisions are Northern, Central East, Central West, South East and South West. The same plan covers school building in the division under the Malawi Education Reform Program, which the World Bank, the Global Partnership for Education and the Government of Malawi fund with a budget of about US$210 million for 2021 to 2025. It lists 416 schools in the division to receive new classroom blocks and 152 to receive sanitation blocks: - Thyolo: 144 schools for classrooms, 51 for sanitation - Mulanje: 127 and 61 - Phalombe: 85 and 36 - Chiradzulu: 60 and 4 The Shire Highlands are a plateau in southern Malawi east of the Shire River, mostly between 600 and 1,100 metres above sea level. They form a major agricultural area and the most densely populated part of the country, with tea estates around Thyolo and Mulanje. Mount Mulanje, Malawi's highest peak, lies in Mulanje District. The Ministry does not publish an address or telephone number for the division office, so it is worth confirming its location before travelling; the Ministry's headquarters at Capital Hill, Lilongwe, gives +265 1 789 416 and info@education.gov.mw as its general contacts.

Luchenza, Thyolo, Malawi
Thyolo

16°0′28″S 35°17′49″E