Education crisis: The future in limbo

Education experts agree that Botswana’s education system is catastrophic. But all the answers are in the Revised National Policy on Education of 1994 (RNPE), otherwise known as the Kedikilwe Commission. “You can love, hate or ignore that document but at the end of the day you ought to go back to its contents if we really need to ameliorate the devastating state of affairs of our education system,” said Professor Agreement Lathi Jotia, a democracy and education specialist at the University of Botswana (UB).

Jotia also reasoned that part of the remedy to the education system in addition to the RNPE would be to listen to the concerns of the teachers unions and try to resolve all the issues amicably.