MALAWI TERTIARY DISTANCE LEARNING GROWS, WITH SATELLITE CENTRES PROVIDING KEY SERVICES
March 1st, 2021
Malawi’s higher education may have suffered through Covid-19, but the pandemic has encouraged efforts to build online and distance learning (ODL) operating through special satellite centres run by universities and colleges.
Out of Malawi’s 19 tertiary institutions, five have made serious progress in such services, with Mzuzu University, in northern Malawi, leading the way, pioneering ODL in 2006, when the institution was just eight years old.
The inspiration behind this initiative was the fact that thousands of talented secondary school leavers had in the ...
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