{"id":69099,"date":"2018-09-06T09:48:34","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T07:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=69099"},"modified":"2018-09-06T09:48:35","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T07:48:35","slug":"britain-pledges-support-to-education-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/09\/06\/britain-pledges-support-to-education-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain pledges support to education sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Emmanuel Chirwa:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/holly-tett.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-40634\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/holly-tett-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/holly-tett-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/holly-tett.jpg 686w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>British High Commissioner to Malawi, Holly Tett, has pledged continued support to the education sector.<\/p>\n<p>She was speaking in Lilongwe on Tuesday during the send-off of 12 people who are going to the United Kingdom study, courtesy of Chevening Scholarship.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cFor a nation to develop, it needs people who are educated in various fields such as leadership, commerce and others,\u201d<\/em> Tett said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Chevening Scholarship is awarded to scholars who have shown great academic excellence from over 150 countries in the world. Malawi started benefitting from the programme in 1983.<\/p>\n<p>Tett said continuation of the programme shows the commitment of the British government to the provision of quality education in Malawi.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Education, Science and Technology, Bright Msaka, hailed the British Government for its continued contribution to the education sector.<\/p>\n<p>Msaka said human capital development was on top of the government\u2019s agenda.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThe success of the nation lies in educating its citizens,\u201d<\/em> Msaka said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some of the previous awardees of the scholarship were also welcomed back into the country. One of them, Tendai Muneno, who graduated with a Master of Arts in Development at University of Sussex, said her experience is worthwhile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Emmanuel Chirwa: British High Commissioner to Malawi, Holly Tett, has pledged continued support to the education sector. She was speaking in Lilongwe on Tuesday during the send-off of 12 people who are going to the United Kingdom study, courtesy of Chevening Scholarship. \u201cFor a nation to develop, it needs people who are educated in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69102,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69099\/revisions\/69102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}