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2025 Japanese Government Scholarship

for Teacher Training (Secondary School Level)


The Embassy of Japan, Petroda Glass House, P.O. Box 30780, Lilongwe 3 Tel: 0999 985 358
For inquiries, please contact embmalawi@lw.mofa.go.jp

The Government of Japan offers scholarships for Malawian secondary school teachers who wish to
participate training on school education at Japanese universities. Upon successful completion of the
1.5-year teacher training course, the scholarship recipient will be awarded a certificate (this is not a
master’s degree). The recipient must then return to Malawi immediately and resume their teaching work
and put into practice what he/she has learned from the training.

Application forms and guidelines for the scholarship can be downloaded from this link:
Candidates are required to go through the application guidelines. Incomplete application will not
be processed.

By Friday, February 7, 2025, all completed forms (hard copies) must be submitted (physically
arrived) at the Embassy of Japan, Petroda Glass House, along the M1 Road, near the Area 18
roundabout, or by mail to P.O. Box 30780, Lilongwe 3. Do not email your application forms.

Eligibility
1. Applicants must be graduates of universities or teacher training schools and have worked as teachers
at secondary educational institutions or teacher training schools (secondary school level) excluding
universities, for five years or more as of October 1, 2025.
2. Applicants must return and resume their teaching work in Malawi right after the scholarship ends.
3. Applicants must be born on or after April 2, 1990.
*Please read the application guidelines carefully for other eligibility and conditions.

Selection
Candidates will be further screened through:
1. Written Exam: Conducted on Saturday, February 22, 2025 in Lilongwe.
2. Oral Interview: Conducted on Saturday, March 1, 2025 in Lilongwe.
The venue and time will be communicated only to successful applicants in due course.

Note
1. The training courses and universities are listed in the Course Guide of Teacher Training Program
available at:
https://www.mext.go.jp/content/20241217-mxt-kotokoku01-000039329_019.pdf;
https://www.mext.go.jp/content/20241217-mxt-kotokoku01-000039329_020.pdf

2. You can refer to the past exam questions for Japanese and English at here:
INCOMPLETE APPLICATION WILL NOT BE PROCESSED. It is your own responsibility
as an eager candidate to prepare complete application. If something is unclear, please kindly
inquire us either by embmalawi@lw.mofa.go.jp or 0999 985 358 or 0993 134 658.

Below are the instructions on seven forms must be submitted in the application:

1. Application Form:
⚫ Use the FY2025 Application Form available here.
⚫ Make sure to answer every question. Do not forget to tick in some sections.
⚫ Correctly calculate your age as of April 1, 2025, based on your date of birth. If you are
not confident, please use this link where you can calculate your age by putting your
date of birth and the date of April 1, 2025.
⚫ Make sure you are 34 years old or younger.
⚫ Do not staple the passport photo; Rather, paste with glue.
⚫ “19. Employment Record”
- Calculate correctly for the period of employment. For example, 2010/3-2010/8
means 5 months, and 2015/2-2018/11 means 3 years and 9 months.
- You do not need to include the current employment because you have already
mentioned in the section above (18. Your Status/Occupation).
- Don’t forget to put the total duration of work experience.
⚫ For the signature, you need to handwrite it in the original form.
⚫ Make sure to submit all photocopies according to the guidelines.
⚫ Do not send original Degree or Diploma Certificate but photocopy the certificate and
have it certified by commissioner of oath.

2. Placement Preference Application Form:


⚫ Use the FY2025 Preference Form available here:
*Use the correct course code. Do not put a code that does not even exist.
⚫ Make sure that the code corresponds with your area of study.
⚫ Do not omit the name of university. Write the official and full name of university. For
example, there is no Naruto University but Naruto University of Education, and Osaka
University and Osaka Kyoiku University are different.
⚫ Make sure that your course is taught in English. People tend to ignore the language
requirement. You won’t be accepted to a course that requires Japanese proficiency
(unless you have it).
⚫ Make sure your course is not requesting specific nationality. Sometimes the notes in
the course guide suggest that this course only want a Mongolian for example.

3. Certified grade transcript for each academic year from the last university/ teacher
training school attended: To be issued by the attended university/school or the local
authority.

4. The degree/diploma from the last university/ teacher training school attended.

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5. Certificate of Employment: To be issued by the present employer.
⚫ It can be a very simple letter from your EDM office or current employer headed as
“Certificate of Employment” and signed with a stamp (the following information
should be included: (1) name of your employer, (2) the employment number, (3) the
name of your school, and (4) when you start working at the current position)
⚫ You cannot submit the Authority to Teach as Certificate of Teacher. Or probation
Certificate as your Certificate of Employment
⚫ No need to submit PSR 19.

6. Recommendation letter from the immediate supervisor at work:


⚫ Free format, bur a sample format is available here:

7. Medical certificate:
⚫ Use the FY2025 certificate form available here:
⚫ Do not forget to put your name, gender and date of birth.
⚫ Do not forget to ask your doctor to tick YES for question No. 7 at the bottom.

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