School Fees - Lilongwe

Since I kept forgetting to ask secondary school youth in Malawi how much their school fees were, I asked Chris Chibwana (who has commented several times on this blog) for an estimate. He wrote:

It depends...
Public schools are the least expensive, ranging from K7,500 ($49.42) to K15,000 ($98.85) per term (there are 3 terms in a year). BUT you either have to be very smart to make it there from primary school and/or be related to or have connections with someone in power (a politician or an officer with some level of control in the Education Ministry).

That leaves the majority to scramble for places in privately-owned secondary schools where you would expect to pay anything upwards of K15,000 per term (the more costly, the higher quality the instruction).
I hope that helps.