New adult basic education programme launched

According to the curriculum blueprint, whose expertise was sought from UNESCO's lifelong learning, the ABEP framework integrates the ongoing curricular components or sub programmes of literacy and post literacy into a comprehesive and coherent curriculum. The programme articulates general education with technical and vocational education, while combining knowledge and skills, theory and practice, scientific knowledge and popular wisdom, life and work oriented competencies.

According to the curriculum, thuto ga e golelwe programme is conceived as having an open curriculum that does not prescribe or detail contents and activities but rather provides broad criteria and guidelines to understand the foundations of the curriculum and its practical implications for teaching. It has been said to leave room for facilitators and learners interpretation and adaptation of the curriculum at local level, with the openness and flexibility in curriculum development that are essential for various reasons.