{"id":2118,"date":"2011-05-20T11:52:24","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T11:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=2118"},"modified":"2011-05-20T11:52:24","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T11:52:24","slug":"education-in-malawi-discussed-at-scottish-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/20\/education-in-malawi-discussed-at-scottish-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Education in Malawi discussed at Scottish conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p id=\"story_continues_1\">\n<div id=\"attachment_2119\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2119\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2119\" title=\"girls\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/girls-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2119\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The council has been supporting projects aimed at getting more girls to go to school in Malawi<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The challenge of getting more girls into education in Malawi is being discussed at a conference in North Lanarkshire.<\/p>\n<p>Officials and teachers from the African country are attending the event at the Conforti Institute in Coatbridge.<\/p>\n<p>North Lanarkshire Council has been supporting education projects in Malawi.<\/p>\n<p>The event is being co-hosted by the Scotland Malawi Partnership, a charity promoting links between the nations.<\/p>\n<p>Hazel Manda, Shire Highlands divisional education manager in Malawi, is among the speakers who will address the conference.<\/p>\n<p>Delegates will also hear from a head teacher and a primary school teacher who work with young girls in Malawian schools.<\/p>\n<p>North Lanarkshire Council, through its Healthy Lifestyles  Project, has been working closely with education officials and schools  in the Luchenza area of Malawi.<\/p>\n<p>Council staff, pupils and teachers from Scotland have visited  the African country and helped establish initiatives aimed at  increasing levels of education, combating HIV and tackling extreme  poverty.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009 the Malawian government agreed a nationwide roll-out  of Mothers Group projects which had been championed by North Lanarkshire  Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The challenge of getting more girls into education in Malawi is being discussed at a conference in North Lanarkshire. Officials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203,240],"tags":[202,572,425],"class_list":["post-2118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-malawi-education","category-women-of-malawi","tag-education","tag-girls","tag-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}