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Malawi education report: system in crisis

    JOHANNESBURG

    An official report into the state of education in Malawi said the government's decision to provide free primary school education had had disastrous consequences and should be reviewed, the BBC reported on Tuesday. The official report said the big increase in enrolment numbers had overwhelmed an education system with under-motivated and too few staff.

    It said secondary schools had less than half the teachers they needed and about two thirds of these were not trained to teach at secondary level. President Bakili Muluzi ordered the report in the wake of sharply worsening exam results, according to the news report.

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