Zomba District Education Office

Zomba District Education Office is the education office for Zomba District, in the Southern Region of Malawi. It stands on Chimbaya Road in the city of Zomba. 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. Zomba was Malawi's first capital before the seat of government moved to Lilongwe, and it remains a university town: Chancellor College, historically the largest constituent college of the University of Malawi, is in the city. The Zomba Plateau rises above the town to about 1,800 metres. The city had 105,013 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 in Lilongwe on +265 1 789 416 or info@education.gov.mw, which gives its hours as Monday to Friday, 08:00 to 17:00.

J8CF+MQJ, Chimbaya Road, Zomba, Malawi
Zomba

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