International Development written question – answered am ar 17 Gorffennaf 2013.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development which education programmes her Department is supporting in Malawi.
DFID supports the Malawi Government's education sector plan aimed at reforming the sector and ensuring more children are completing primary education and are able to read and write. Since 2010, UK Government funding has helped build 1,200 classrooms, train 4,500 teachers with an additional 10,000 in training and enabled 8,700 girls to enter secondary school through the provision of bursaries. By 2016, UK support will have provided over 200,000 girls in upper primary with cash transfers to complete primary school by addressing the financial challenges that cause girls to drop out of school. It will also provide access to improved sanitation facilities for up to 100,000 secondary school girls and set up a system in schools that will help tackle the pervasive sexual abuse of girls in school.
DFID is also co-funding with the Malawi Government the construction of a Teacher Training College in Phalombe district with one of the highest pupil/teacher ratios in the country. The college, once finished, will graduate 300 new teachers per year, 50% of which will be women.
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