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.

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Human rights are sacred

It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...

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