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Business, Politics

Vice President Chilima urges private sector to survive competitive industry

Malawi News Agency (MANA)
Vice President, Dr. Saulos Chilima, on Friday challenged the private sector to employ strategies that will keep the corporate world afloat even in times of economic hardships.
Chilima made the remarks during official opening of the 2017 Technical, Entrepreneurial and Vocational Education and Training Authority (TEVETA) National Executive Conference held at Club Makokola Retreat in Mangochi where Chief Executive Officers, Directors and Managers of about 40 private and public institutions gathered.
The Vice President said it is pleasing that TEVETA had drawn together leaders of both giant and upcoming businesses, companies and organizations in the country as one way of promoting innovative business practices for increased productivity.
He challenged the corporate executives to use the skills they would acquire through the conference to re-engineer their respective businesses and forge ahead.
“Any strategy can be excellent but the difference lies in the execution. So, make sure you utilize and implement what will be discussed here to improve your businesses…we need to turn around our economy from a predominantly importing and consuming country to one that is producing and exporting and this shift cannot be done if the private sector is left out in all development phases,” he said.
The Veep further gave the corporate executives a few tips on how to survive turbulence and remain strong in the corporate world urging the corporate executives to never panic or carry out knee jerk decisions but stay focused like a Lion on the hunt and deploy short term interventions while maintaining the long term view.
He assured the business captains that government is doing everything possible to ensure that the business environment in the country is conducive for them to thrive.
The conference was part of TEVETA’s initiative of Private Sector Training Programme (PSTPs) aimed at ensuring increased productivity at the workplace and also supporting the attainment of a conducive environment for private sector growth.
The conference was held under the theme, “Steering Organizations through Business Turbulence,” and the guest speaker was South African branding and reputation guru, Thebe Ikalafeng.
On his part, Ikalafeng also took the participants through a presentation titled, “ Innovative business practices for increased productivity in a turbulent business environment.”
Education

TEVETA to provide community colleges graduates with free work tools and soft loans

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LILONGWE-(MaraviPost)– There is a sign of relief among community colleges graduates with the assurance from the Technical Entrepreneur Vocation Education Training Authority (TEVETA) that will provide them with work kits and soft loans.

These incentives will help the graduates to kickstart their own with business after the training. Continue reading TEVETA to provide community colleges graduates with free work tools and soft loans →

Education

TEVETA partners German Chamber to improve technical education in Malawi

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The Technical, Entrepreneurial and Vocational Education and Training Authority (TEVETA) recently asked Malawian companies and industries to provide the country’s technical colleges with the latest equipment to enable learners move with the changing technology.

Board Chairperson Gilbert Chilinde said this on Thursday in Lilongwe when TEVETA briefed Malawi journalists about the TEVETA/HWK Cologne Chamber of Germany partnership.

Through the partnership, Chilinde who recently visited Germany, accompanied by representatives of Employers Association of Malawi (EAM), Malawi Confederation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry (MCCCI), and other stakeholders, toured German technical colleges and industries in June. During the visit the group learnt that private sector initiative.

The trip was to familiarize the stakeholders with the German technical education system, which is regarded as one of the best in the world.

“Malawi can also produce highly skilled and reliable workers if the country’s companies and industries emulate what their friends in Germany are doing,” said Chilinde.

Learners in Malawi’s technical colleges lag behind in skills and technology because they use outdated equipment, one of the presentations highlighted during the press conference by TEVETA Acting Executive Director Wilson Makulumiza Nkhoma.

“Companies and industries in Germany give technical colleges modern car engines, welding machines, carpentry, and joinery materials, among other important equipment,” the presentation stated.

It added, “the companies and industries enroll many secondary school graduates in technical colleges and sponsors their tuition to have them trained as their future staff. This enhances the companies and industries workforces and production.”

The TEVETA chief also announced of trainings that will take place in Malawi and Germany.

“We want to see Malawian companies and industries start signing mutual contracts with our struggling technical colleges as is the case in Germany. The aim is to produce highly skilled workers whose innovations would reduce the poverty of many people and help develop the country,” Chilinde emphasized.

Currently, Malawi has less than ten national technical colleges, and less than twenty community technical colleges with an annual enrollment of only two thousand students.

 

Business, Education

“Ndi Tsogolo Langa” accuses TEVETA Board of scapegoating it; demands MK258m forensic audit within five days

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Ndi Tsogolo Langa

LILONGWE-(MaraviPost)-The country’s local organization Ndi Tsogolo Langa (NTL) on Tuesday, came out of the cocoon to clarify the alleged MK258 million fraud, which Technical Entrepreneurial Vocation and Education Training Authority (TEVETA) has demanded as reimbursement.

NTL has accused the TEVETA Board of using them as a scapegoat in the unfounded allegations of fraud, and which the National Audit Office cleared the organization of any misappropriation of funds.

The organization has therefore demanded the Board to furnish the public with both the Official High Level Report of March 2017, and Investigative Audit Report of April 2017. Continue reading “Ndi Tsogolo Langa” accuses TEVETA Board of scapegoating it; demands MK258m forensic audit within five days →

Business, Education

Malawi Govt rolls out revised TEVET Curriculum

Maravi Post correspondent

LILONGWE-(MaraviPost)-The Ministry of Labor, Youth, Sports and Manpower Development has rolled out the revised TEVET curriculum starting with level 1effective January 2017 in all TEVET training institutions.

Henry Mussa: TEVETA curricula merged in response to demands from the industry

The revised curriculum is a product of the harmonization of the three curricula that have been offered in the TEVET system all these years.

The three curricula include the National Trade Test managed and administered by the Ministry of Labor; the Malawi Craft and Advanced Craft managed and administered by Malawi National Examinations Board (MANEB) and the TEVET Qualification Framework managed and administered by TEVET Authority. Continue reading Malawi Govt rolls out revised TEVET Curriculum →

Lifestyle

Project to reduce unemployment among Malawi rural youths launched in Lilongwe

Maravi Post correspondent
An upcoming tailor showing his products
An upcoming tailor showing his products

LILONGWE (Maravi Post)—Youths from Traditional Authority Kabudula in the outskirt of Malawi’s capital Lilongwe on Wednesday at least breathed a sigh of relief following the official launch of Youth Arise for Skills and Entrepreneurial Development (YAfSED) Project at Kabudula primary school ground whose aim is to reduce youth unemployment.

The project, so Maravi Post has learnt, aims at equipping the young people with skills in different sectors like tailoring, brick laying, welding and fabrication as well as carpentry and joinery.

With the financial support from TEVETA, the project is targeting 250 beneficiaries in the area by the end of this year with over 80 students already trained in Brick laying, Carpentry and Joinery, Tailoring and welding and Fabrication among other areas.

In an exclusive interview, Dr. Ndione Chauluka, TEVETA’s Executive Director who graced the function expressed gratitude saying that the initiative is in line the country’s head of state Peter Mutharika championing spirit of vocational skills for young people.

“The Program is very crucial especially to the youths of this area as it is also in line with what President Mutharika always say of investing in the youth that they become fully fledged eventually to be able to stand on their own. After attaining skills on entrepreneurship, we expect the trainees to stand on their own by employing themselves and others,” said Chauluka.

On her part, Joyce Chitsulo, Ndi Tsogolo Langa’s Executive Director— a local non-governmental organization which started the implementation of the projects since 2015 said that the initiative was bearing fruits.

However, she bemoaned lack of training structures which contribute to low enrollment.

“It’s our obligation to train more youths through a fledged community development Center which is in the pipe line. Currently, we are using people who are already skilled to train these youths.

“But, when we have the development center, more young people will be recruited for drilling in the different courses with expectation that they become economically independent as we have engaged a local bank to grant the youths with loans after the completion of the training that they start businesses”, disclosed Chitsulo.