The Ministry of Education has directed that schools should not demand tuition or examination fees for students that are re-sitting for this year’s Malawi School Certificate of Education (MSCE) examinations.

The above has been strictly emphasized in a statement signed by the Education Ministry Principal Secretary Chikondano Mussa, has also indicated that the no-fees directive applies to both public and private secondary schools.

Part of the statement reads, “The ministry is aware that, at the time of cancellation of examinations, form four students had not fully utilised their fees for term three which is [sic] normally paid in full. The ministry therefore directs that no school shall demand fees from the students as examinations will be administered within one month from the day the students report at school,”

President Lazarus Chakwera recently ordered that the examinations, which were cancelled after some papers leaked, should be re-administered before the end of January 2021.