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Our school principals deserve more accolades and recognition than they currently receive.The school climate has shifted drastically in the last few years to a point of rendering schools ungovernable. If it were not for the resoluteness and resilient...

PTAs have been established for a variety of good reasons. First and foremost, is to acts as a bridge between the school and the community.Without such a structure, a school can easily run the risk of existing like an ivory tower, isolated and...

In the recent past, the COVID-19 pandemic came and went, but taught us invaluable lessons.One of them is the need to diversify approaches to teaching and learning. The big question is whether there is anything we learnt from the pandemic. It seems...

A school in a state of inertia emphasises the problems bedevilling the teaching profession while downplaying the efficacy of the teaching profession in problem-solving and the cultivation of positive attitudes among students. The right attitude...

The closure of a school may appear drastic and harsh. But when seen in the context of securing fundamental and inalienable rights of children to education, it is a fair and just intervention.Schools are established to make a positive impact on the...

Only half-hearted attempts were made to assist learners with special needs to access education. Such learners were underserved as the schools lacked the technical expertise and physical resources needed to meet their peculiar learning needs....

More often than not, when the performance of a school has become a matter of grave concern, members of the community react by mobilising resources with the hope that once resources are available, everything will fall in place. The understanding is...

Navigating an aeroplane during take-off requires extra caution and meticulous handling. The same caution is applied when landing. And so are the first 12 months of school principalship.A new school principal, if not careful, can ruin their career in...

These words aptly and succinctly capture the essence of teaching. If God is love, then teaching is perhaps the only profession that can claim to be a divinely inspired profession, because teaching is love. Essentially, teaching was synonymous with...

Teachers can only gauge the strength of their teaching prowess if students give them immediate, honest and genuine feedback. Students are the very centre of the instructional process, and what they say and do in the classroom and as soon as they step...

In the financial sector it is mandatory to know the financial character of clients and their various streams of revenue primarily for purposes of fighting the scourge of financial money laundering.In other work environments it is equally important to...

Schools have over the years developed a negative perception towards external oversight. This is a challenge that educators responsible for oversight should address urgently.There is an urgent need for external oversight and school managers to find...

The setting was the University of Botswana in the 1990s. Perhaps due to the passage of time, I just have no recollection of the exact academic year it was.The Student Representative Council (SRC) convened a general assembly of students to moot the...

No quality education is cheap. It costs both government and parents who choose to sponsor their own children a fortune. The costs of educating and training people, specifically to win a prosperous and sustainable future, are justifiable.If the...

The children of Soweto in 1976 did it and invaluable lessons have been learnt. The young generation belongs to a very important constituency, worthy of some modicum of respect.The one thing which young people have made unequivocally and emphatically...