The town-rural divide is glaring. For example, the capital city of Gaborone and Selebi-Phikwe have become islands of academic prosperity surrounded by a sea of academic underachievement. Despite being an old and deep-seated issue, the issue of...
We learnt to measure everything except enough. Convenience promised simplicity and delivered prospects with infinite possibilities. Roads multiplied, and so did choices; both became ways to get lost.We traded the ache of hunger for discovery for the...
At a time when many countries are mired in political polarization, crises of trust, and a stubborn diplomatic style, the Nordic countries demonstrate the exact opposite, as seen in how they win global diplomacy through public trust.Ironically, this...
There are concerns from both educators and the community regarding this arrangement. Opinions are divided.It is argued that those students who could not pass the proficiency bar at the most rudimentary primary school education level may not prosper...
It’s a time for reconnection, reflection, celebration, planning, laughter, and of course food. Because whether we admit it or not, food always finds a way to sit at the very canter of these moments. It becomes the focus around which stories are...
When the festive season happens, 80% of the population uses A1 to get to their Christmas destination every year. The Department for Transport has confirmed that the annual ‘Great Festive Migration’ will soon be underway. On the A1, it’s not...
The one deficiency that can ruin the students’ prospects of achieving academic prowess is lack of reading culture. A solid reading foundation plays a significant role in the long-term education journey of children. If students do not have reading...
We learnt to measure everything except enough. Convenience promised simplicity and delivered prospects with infinite possibilities. Roads multiplied, and so did choices; both became ways to get lost.We traded the ache of hunger for discovery for the...
The feedback was like a clearance sale: insults 50% off, sarcasm buy one get one free and unsolicited advice in bulk. One kind guy though offered me a spare couch to sleep on. Basically the feedback ranged from marriage counselling to witness...
A stranger’s laugh on a bus, the soft rain on a tin roof, a memory you thought you’d mislaid, suddenly everything leans forward, asking to be used.It is quiet and persistent, this spark. It tugs at the sleeve during work, taps insistently at the...
Ethiopia, a landlocked country since the independence of Eritrea in 1993, has always been interested in having secure access to the seas: the port of Assab was historically the key gateway to the Red Sea. Egypt’s perception of any efforts by...
Some quarters might perceive the shift as an additional burden, an ambitious mission that cannot be accomplished in light of the education sector’s history of academic underachievement. Critics are saying that the child welfare agenda would assume...
Otherwise, if you don’t have height, not many women would convert you into a husband quickly. If you don’t have patience, who do you expect to accompany your wife when she goes shopping? I think shopping is a woman’s attempt to get back at the...
I might have not had a chance to make it myself before going on tour, but I tasted it at the first school we visited and it blew my socks right off. Ahhh, Christmas.That time of the year when the sun is blazing, kids are running around chasing each...
My eyes slowly adjusted to the blackness as I looked through the window, the sounds of shuffling students gathering around me and filling the quiet.My internal switch flicked, pulling me back to the moment, and I gathered my books and tucked them...
The civil war in Sudan is no exception. Sudan has been a country experiencing a humanitarian crisis since the military clashes in 2023. There are strong allegations of foreign interference through illicit funding, which has exacerbated this crisis....
Some educators may be gripped with a feeling of despondency occasioned by the abolition of CP as an integral part of a school management system. It would appear that the controversial form of discipline has been the most effective and powerful...
I surmised that ‘That column’ would have meant Ink Spills. I was flattered. Ink Spills is now referred to as ‘that column’, which means it is steadily creeping towards being referred to as ‘the column’ – an upgrade of ‘that column’....
The first major event was supposed to be the announcement of the final squad on Monday (yesterday), but that did not happen.The BFA indicated that the announcement has been postponed due to the passing of national executive committee member, Keleeme...
My backpack was already packed, my brain had clocked out, and my legs twitched like a sprinter on the blocks. Then, at last, the bell rang, sweet liberation! We erupted outside like jubilant prisoners on perfectly legal parole. The excitement level...
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