Orchestra Kamanga talks on education, refregration- unedited articles

Why government converted MCDE to CDSS: additional information
By orchestra Kamanga
Commenting on the importance of Open Secondary school, one of the students of Blantyre Secondary School, (BSS) Great Nyasulu said Open secondary school allows working people to upgrade their qualifications.
Nyasulu who is also a teacher at No 1 Private Secondary School at Ndirande, Blantyre said Conventional secondary school is expensive compared to Open.
“We pay only K2500 at Open Secondary School while at Conventional Students pay K4500,” he said, adding that Open helps the poor to further their education.
Concurring with Nyasulu sentiment is a 19 year –old Sarah Shalon- Nkhoma who is form 4 at Blantyre Open Secondary School saying drop-out students can go back to school including those married ones.
“The open Secondary school allows those married to further their education even studying at their homes and it was not difficult for conventional schools to allow married ones.
There are over 115 Open Secodary schools I the country which include, Chitipa Secondary school, Nkhata-bay Secondary school, Thyolo Secondary school, Malindi Seconadry School , Nkhota-kota Seconadry school to mention but a few.

Importance of refrigeration and Air conditioning: additional information
By Orchestra Kamanga
The Deputy Principal for Soche Technical College in Blantyre, Humphreys Liwambano said his College was not yet offering refrigeration and Air condition course but will be introduced next, January 2010 to train technicians in the field saying it was in a high demand in shops, Game stores, hospitals, companies among others.
He said the College had received equipment from Lilongwe Technical College which was donated by Indian government to train technician’s students on refrigeration and air conditioning.
“Government has only three Colleges which train expert in this field which include, Soche Technical College, Lilongwe Technical College and Zomba Works Training centre and other are Private institutions,” he said.
Most technicians are not well qualified as they are few train colleges and companies depend on job-training.
Equipments received from Lilongwe Technical College for the training include refrigeration gases, oil, Air conditioner, gas cylinders, compressors, absolution refrigeration, thermometers to mention but a few.

The course is one year for Certificate and two years for diploma in refrigeration and Air conditioning examined by City and guilds.