Bosetu had been advocating for this position since covid19 pandemic paralysed the country last year, but when they upped the ante at a consultative meeting with the Ministry and Covid19 task team last week, the teacher trade unions were granted their...
Speaking at the end of a virtual meeting with the ministry of basic education and covid19 task team where they discussed covid19 pandemic in schools, Rari says their observation is that the Department of Public Health through the DHMTs is...
Radikolo says even worse is the fact that teachers have started dying from covid19 that they contract from the school environment, hence the urgent need for fumigation and contact tracing. Radikolo added that the students being energetic,...
Bosetu recently published statistics showing 25 schools nationwide grappling with covid19 with three temporarily closing while many others continued to operate as normal despite worrying situations on the ground. It was the first ever covid19 report...
In their budget review session, BOSETU President Winstan Radikolo said it had been proposed that in order to deal with the high wage bill: Government needs to right-size the public service. Meanwhile, as an effort to reduce the wage bill,...
BOSETU President Winston Radikolo says the education budget for this financial year is simply insufficient since it has not been crafted to deal with already existing challenges such as the fact that there are not enough textbooks in schools,...
Presenting at BOSETU’s budget review, National treasurer Samuel Aboneng said the Provision of that transparency in the budget speech would have allayed Batswana’s fears and concerns of possible misuse or misallocation of the reserves from the...
Reacting to the budget speech, BOSETU national treasurer Sammuel Aboneng suggested that Botswana government could use the covid19 pandemic to borrow more to support its budget deficit , arguing that the country is not utilizing its capacity to...
“While we are not pessimists or prophets of doom, everything point to the direction of very low pass marks, this is what parents should expect and should be psychologically prepared for; we are teachers, we wish the students , the candidates,...
BOSETU says while their suggestions were in light of the adverse impacts of covid 19 on the learning environment, none of them were hid.
According to BOSETU the teachers took issues of personal safety into con-sideration and decided to opt out, “We hear there is shortage of invigilators in Gaborone. Invigilation is not compulsory, as per a ruling by courts of law in our 2017 case...
BOSETU Secretary General Tobokani Rari says the covid19 challenges had worsened classroom shortage with many schools forced to revert to the dark age of teaching in open spaces and under the trees, describing the situation as unsuitable for...
“Some students are testing positives in the middle of exams as we speak; some are taken for contact tracing, some are quarantined, leaving students pancky and psychologically affected”. “We had proposed that during the exams, let’s have...
BOSETU says when the schools reopened, and had to practice social distancing in classrooms, with other classes being held in the afternoons, the result was that the time that teachers and students traditionally used for remedial works and...
The BIUST Vice Chancellor, Professor Otlogetswe Totolo, Hackathon event coordinators, as well as representatives from the parent Ministry of Tertiary Education Science and Technology (MoTE) converged virtually. The Hackathon prize giving ceremony...
The launch of the chairs, which was held on 27th October, 2020, coincides with what would have been O.R Tambo’s 103rd birthday, a legend known for his passion for freedom, science and technology. according to the release, the ORTAChI aim is to...
The BIUST MC intends to bridge gaps in academic teaching of applied mining and related sciences and professional needs of the mining industry. A mining engineer, Dr Bonny Matshediso, with a wealth of experience in the mines, civil service and...
BOSETU says in the midst of covid19 the usual practice would expose hundreds of teachers to the virus. On invigilation for the exams that started this week with the standard 7's BOSETU says the invigilating body have acceded to the proposal to have...
Bosetu president says congested classrooms are the source of pupils failing to ‘break through’ which should be achieved in the first two years of primary school learning but whose failure would be felt in the long term such as form three and...
Bosetu president Winston Radikolo says thus far more than 50 schools have been affected by COVID – 19. “This goes out to tell that there is deficiency in our schools when it comes to putting in place the preventative protocols. As we indicated...
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