Education minister should learn from 2010 exam fiasco

The Minister did a lot of justice to the country's education system and she should be applauded for that. The Minister could have refused and maintained that Double Shift continues. But she took heed of BOSETU advice and moved swiftly to abolish a programme that was seriously ill conceived and has destroyed the future of some students.

It is the 2010 national examinations that however take away the shine out of the Minister. The Botswana Examinations Council (BEC), the Ministry of Education and Skills Development (MoE & SD) and Botswana Secondary School Teachers Union (BOSETU) have learnt big lessons out of the 2010 national examinations fiasco. We hope that such tragedy will not occur again in our education system. BEC and MoE & SD refusal to negotiate with teacher unions resulted in the current mess where some results have not been released up to now.