Rari explains Botswana's education crisis

Rari explained that the country has the case as confirmed by the Minister of Basic Education in 842 schools. “The infrastructure that was meant for a certain number of students has now been outgrown by the number of students,” Rari explained.  He added that education officials are not able to make proper projections in terms of facilities in schools versus the population growth.

“This is now creating shortage of classes, bigger class sizes and also shortage of teachers, resulting in hiring of temporary teachers. When resources are distributed there is always a shortage of resources due to under-budgeting. There is a failure to keep pace with growth of settlements, villages, towns and cities where the schools are located.” Rari also attributed the problem to lack of correlation between demographers and Ministry officials since the problem is caused by population growth.