UDC president condemns BGCSE poor performance

Tuesday, March 05, 2019

UDC president Duma Boko adressing a political rally at Mabesekwa in Tonota constituency over the weekend PIC: KEOAGILE BONANG

MABESEKWA: Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) president, Duma Boko has condemned the Botswana General Certificate of Secondary Education (BGCSE) recent results as a serious embarrassment.

“One of the heart breaking issues is that the national pass rate in Botswana for the BGCSE is lower than the Zimbabwe equivalent despite that the poor country is devastated by an incessant economic meltdown,” Boko said.

He said that in Zimbabwe the top schools in the Cambridge Overseas School Certificate attained 100% whereas St Joseph’s College here, which was declared number one in the recent BGCSE, had a pass rate of 47%.

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