Ministry grapples with declining exam performance

Speaking at the launch of the Botswana General Certificate of Secondary Education (BGCSE) evaluation report that was completed last October, the director of Curriculum Development and Evaluation, David Ratsatsi asserted that the decline is due to a number of variables.

These are shortage of materials in schools; teacher competencies, motivation, attitude and welfare, congested syllabus and content. Others are shortage of time on tasks at the classroom level, socio economic status of the learners and libraries and lack of reading.