System impoverishes learners with disabilities

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The study that was recently conducted by the University of Botswana (UB) lecturer Dr Boitumelo Mangope is accusing the Botswana education system of impoverishing learners with intellectual disabilities.

Mangope’s study was titled, ‘Inclusion or exclusion: Education of learners with intellectual disabilities in Botswana primary schools’. Presenting her findings during stakeholders’ engagement workshop on the importance of research in education that was held Gaborone Senior Secondary School, Mangope challenged the Ministry of Basic Education (MoBE) on inclusion of learners with intellectual disabilities.

The stakeholder’s engagement workshop was held under the theme, ‘Delivering education through research: A must for the post 2015 agenda’.

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