Government has cautioned teachers across the country to stick to the curriculum when teaching learners Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE).
According to Secretary for Education Chikondano Mussa, a school curriculum is well regulated policy and that learners need to be taught in accordance with the Ministry`s mandate and regulation.
Mussa said: “We need to follow rules and regulations. I was just telling them that we should stick to their mandate. Our mandate is to educate and that we have different mandates in just to say that the well-being of learners.
“As a ministry we have packaged messaging for CSE through the curriculum so they should stick to what the curriculum is saying. We have the life skills education and development studies and other career subjects through which we are using to take these messages to the children.”
Mussa, who was speaking in Lilongwe during the official opening of the capacity building of Chief Education Officers, stressed that no one should come through the backdoor with different messaging on CSE.
“Nobody should come through the back door and start teaching things that the ministry is not aware of because a school curriculum is highly regulated policy. We don’t want anybody to come and say we are training teachers when it is so we are training teachers and yet the messages have not been vetted,” she warned.
Commenting on the significance of the training, Chief Education Officer for Blantyre Urban Anita Kaliwu said the capacity building workshop is very crucial towards the management of education nationwide.
“This training in particular is very crucial, because it is putting us to be very effective managers for our education in our respective districts and whatever she has said is very relevant to our performance,” said Kaliwu.
The training session, which saw participation of all CEOs nationwide, was strategically organised to address the capacity gaps existing at decentral level in various areas including decision making.
The capacity building workshop was facilitated by facilitators from the School of Government who, according to Mussa, are professional, dedicated and purposeful to assist all participants open a new chapter of service delivery because they will take the CEOs through all the relevant aspects of Government decorum and protocol that befits its leaders and managers, to remain role models to their staff lead.
