After Next, What Should Be Next?

It is an established fact that the academic trends have been downgrading in the recent past as published by Botswana Examinations Council. It is also an established fact that the relevance of the education system particularly regarding to what the curriculum is offering as against the needs of the job market is not in conformity.

The results of these realities facing our education system and indeed our beloved country are to a larger extent damming economic liberation of our citizens. Unemployment standing at 17.6% can largely be credited to the realities stated above.

The impact can also be extended to poor work ethics, moral degradation and the lacking in self-regulation. At a national entrepreneurial level, the impact is revealed as we see some failure in well-orchestrated government initiatives geared especially towards economic upliftment of its citizens.

Editor's Comment
BPF should get house in order

Speaker of the National Assembly, Dithapelo Keorapetse, has this week rightly washed his hands of the mess, refusing to wade into a party squabble that has no clear leadership and no single version of the truth.When a single party sends six different letters to the Speaker’s office, each claiming to be the authoritative voice, it is not just confusion, but an embarrassment.Keorapetse is correct to insist on institutional boundaries. Parliament...

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