Honey Befalls Teachers As BOTECO Emanates

With practice, all things can come to perfection. And indeed taking an initiative will surely land you to greatness. Perhaps we need to note that the opposite is also true that without trying out new initiatives, one will always swim in the ordinary.

I am yet to hear sweeter news than what is currently trending in education circles about the incoming Botswana Teaching Council (BOTECO). This is one exciting development proving hard to believe.

A BOTECO draft bill presented to stakeholders in April 2017 together with the recommendations of the Education and Training sector Strategic Plan (ETSSP, 2015) are some of the real positive signs that something good is in the offing. Lawyers have a society, Nurses have an association, Accountants and Bankers have their own institutions, and it can only make sense that teachers should have their council as well.

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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