We hear also of some examinations being written at different times in different schools. Remarkably the Minister of Education and the Executive Secretary of the Botswana Examinations Council are telling the nation that "all is well".
The BEC is the body that sets standards and regulations for the conduct of examinations in the country. The BEC should, therefore, not ask the nation to understand when it violates the very system it set up. Neither should education minister, Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi ask the nation to be patriotic when people complain that examination standards are being compromised. We have all been patriotic, have we not? And today we are being told that the English paper that should have been written yesterday was stopped at the eleventh hour! It is our view that Venson-Moitoi should have immediately addressed the examination crisis in an objective, constructive way. However, she was only too eager to protect government and the BEC. The minister chose to stick with the BEC even when it became clear that the exam situation was fast spiraling out of control into a crisis.
