Teachers suffer serious mental health challenges

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PALAPYE: The role played by educators to students and learners as mentors, role models and counsellors has become even more risky and precarious, leading to rising mental health challenges among teachers, a top unionist has said.

Botswana Sectors of Educators Trade Union (BOSETU) president, Winston Radikolo said in order to deal with the mental challenges faced by teachers and increasingly, learners as well, government must urgently finalise the National Mental Health Framework.

Radikolo was making a keynote address at the just ended BOSETU elective congress in Palapye. The congress was themed “Transforming the education sector in the midst of COVID-19 pandemic.”

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Teachers suffer serious mental health challenges

PALAPYE: The role played by educators to students and learners as mentors, role models and counsellors has become even more risky and precarious, leading to rising mental health challenges among teachers, a top unionist has said.