Members of the teaching fraternity are gathering in the vibrant Palapye town to mark and celebrate their day, highlighting accomplishments made over the years while reflecting on challenges and road blocks that could be inhibiting provision of quality and relevant education and training. It is an opportunity for all actors concerned including communities to engage in a serious soul searching process, considering the fact that much as teachers are striving to bring their best selves to the classrooms, the student learning outcomes continue to be a source of national concern.
This situation needs quick solutions. It demands unrelenting focus on enactment of education reform process as spelt out in the Education and Training Sector Strategic Plan (ETSSP) and as defined by emerging circumstances going forward. The education reform movement is not an option but a necessity, a matter of life and death process, which should begin now and gather momentum in every corner of our blessed country. If our purpose as a country is to secure a thriving, diversified and sustainable future through a robust and skill based education system then reforms should be pursued with a renewed sense of urgency and vigour.
