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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Botswana at a critical juncture

While the political shift brings hope for change, it also places immense pressure on the new administration to deliver on its election promises in the face of serious economic challenges.On another level, newly appointed Finance Minister Ndaba Gaolathe’s grim assessment of the country’s finances adds urgency to the moment. The budget deficit, expected to be P8.7 billion, is now anticipated to be even higher due to underperforming diamond...

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