An outreach team from the University of Manchester’s School of Computer Science has visited Malawi in central Africa, teaching computing in schools in the north of the country.

It is a great experience all round, for the university staff, for CS students and for the UK schoolteachers in the team.  In the Malawian schools, the teachers were very positive and we met real enthusiasm from the schoolchildren, who engaged well with the subject  and eventually managed to program in text-based languages, despite never having touched a computer, or even a keyboard before!

Report

A Report on the Project covers both the 2017 visit and the 2018 visit, with insights into some key issues that arose including pedagogic approach, infrastructure, language, gender inequalities, and sustainability and scalability of impact.

Video

Here is a video record of Project Malawi 2017.

Podcast

Here is a podcast of an interview with two members of the Project Malawi 2018 team, explaining the impact of the project in Malawi and in their lives.