Lauded as the first woman to be appointed a high court judge and having presided over Botswana's most expensive trial, the Minister of Education and Skills Development (MoESD) Dr Unity Dow’s ministry has been hit by severe turbulence. Having risen to stardom after gaining celebrity status for successfully suing government to have maternal rights recognised in the country's nationality laws, and her phenomenal judgment in the Basarwa case, Dow may have to dig deeper to tame the education sector currently on death bed. Educational matters are essential and core to the future of a country. If these do not warrant immediate and urgent attention of government, then nothing does. Poor JCE and Botswana General Certificate in Secondary Education (BGCSE) results recently released and the crisis over the quality of education in some tertiary institutions have brewed a concoction that will require balls of steel to overcome and turn the tide in a ministry often dubbed the "exit" ministry. Dr Dow is aware that she is walking a tight rope. Her predecessors have failed dismally to resolve pertinent issues and improve results in education, leaving with heads lowered in shame and in some instances cast away into oblivion. Vice President Mokgweetsi…