MPs sorrowed by bottom three schools

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

In the wake of yesterday’s release of the 2013 Botswana General Certificate of Education results, the Member of Parliament for Okavango, Bagalatia Arone, is angry and dismayed by what happened at Shakawe Senior School.

“I am not surprised that the students failed,” he told Mmegi yesterday. “Not at all.”

With a pass rate of below 10 percent, Shakawe Senior is at Position 32. This is the first time in the history of Botswana Examinations Council that a school has failed to pass above 10 percent.Arone said the students were disadvantaged from the time they were ordered to attend school in Maun where their access to equipment was severely limited.

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