Exchange programme bridges ODL and conventional education
Wednesday, July 02, 2014

The Head of the European Delegation to Botswana and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Gerard McGovern yesterday said it would be interesting to see how the initiative, involving participating students from Botswana, Germany and France, would deal with the challenges of both the ODL and the conventional teaching system.
“Initially the conventional system depended on the presence of a teacher for teaching and learning to take place, while ODL depended on media to facilitate teaching and learning,” McGovan said, adding that, “With the massive technological developments in the world today, the distinction between ODL and the conventional system is blurring and they systems are coming closer together with each standing to benefit from each other”.
We duly congratulate them to have ousted the long ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) from power. Prior to taking power from the BDP, the coalition had made several election promises that are credited for influencing change and swaying the people to vote in its favour.The party had made an undertaking, which its leader and President Duma Boko consistently bellowed in his campaign trail. These undertakings were promises that Batswana would be...