
President Dr Mokgweetsi Masisi has publicly admitted that the entire education sector in Botswana is in a serious crisis due to continued poor results, attributing it to poor governance. The admission by Masisi comes in the wake of poor performance in the JC results released recently by Botswana Examination Council (BEC), showing that 62% of candidates failed. JC final results indicate that 62.5% of the total candidates who sat for the final exam obtained grades D, E, U and respectively meaning that some will be joining masses of unemployed youth. Only 37.50% of all 15 393 candidates who sat for the JC examinations in 2019 managed to obtain an overall grade C or better, signaling a decrease of 0.02% from 2018. Asked about the situation of education in Botswana, he said the whole education systems are in a sorry state of affairs at the moment. “The situation is really bad for the country and economy as we want to move into a knowledge based economy. I admit that our entire education needs to be fixed,” Masisi said, adding that government will work around the clock to address bad situation. Some of the predicaments that he considers to be contributing to…