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ETSSP: A new hope for Botswana’s education system

Botswana’s Education and Training Sector Strategic Plan (ETSSP) ushered a new hope for our education system.

It also laid bare the challenges bedevilling the education sector in the country and more importantly created some sense of urgency to close gaps identified. ETSSP was designed to restore a sense of accountability in schools among other things.

A properly run school should never doubt its ability and power to get the teaching and learning train back on the rails. Low accountability in schools means gone are the days when a school could proudly declare that ‘the buck stops here’.

Editor's Comment
Depression is real; let's take care of our mental health

It is not uncommon in this part of the world for parents to actually punish their children when they show signs of depression associating it with issues of indiscipline, and as a result, the poor child will be lashed or given some kind of punishment. We have had many suicide cases in the country and sadly some of the cases included children and young adults. We need to start looking into issues of mental health with the seriousness it...

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