26,200 TO PROCEED TO FORM 4 The Minister of Education and - TopicsExpress



          

26,200 TO PROCEED TO FORM 4 The Minister of Education and Skills Development, the Honourable Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi, has said that 26,200 students will be admitted to Form 4 out of the 38,944 who sat for the 2013 Juniour Certificate (JC) examinations. Addressing a press conference yesterday she said the 26,200 were taken from the entire first, second and third classes, including the 12,261 of the Ds. The Minister said her ministry was making arrangements for the remaining students to apply for technical colleges, brigades and Botswana College of Distance and Open Learning (BOCODOL). Because these children are young, she said, the ministry’s objective was to ensure that they got an opportunity to upgrade so that they could join the next form four intake. Relating her feelings about the 2013 JC examination results, she said “naturally, I don’t feel as happy as I should about the outcome. My expectations are always high about results. I want to turn the results around quicker. I am unable to do that, because obviously the tusk is larger than my eyes can see, but that doesn’t mean that I am going to be giving in or giving up. The battle hasn’t just been strengthened or intensified. The battle has to be carried on or continued.” Therefore, she urged the news media to also help her ministry to carry the message even wider. She said her ministry had strategised about the things that should be done for education to be put on the front banner. Minister Venson-Moitoi added, “of course we are disappointed that the results aren’t picking up as quickly as they should. But, what we are having to accept is that maybe the damage caused was probably greater than we had realizsed, because the results don’t reflect what happened last year. They probably reflect what happened several years ago. And this calls upon us as a society, as a nation, to pull together.” She expressed disappointment that out of a series of public meetings that she conducted across the country last year, the one that she addressed in Gaborone was attended by only 14 parents. She said, “well, if only 14 parents in this city attended that meeting then only 14 families had their children pass, because maybe only 14 families care about their education in this whole city of Gaborone- with over 300 000 families. If that’s how much we care about the education of our children in this country then nobody should be surprised about the results. This is where we are all of us together. We are in this together. It’s not an issue for the ministry of education alone. “When we fail at the Ministry of Education it calls upon us to work even harder. And that’s what we are going to do this year. So, this year we are going to intensify. I am not a quitter. For the sake of the children of this country, we are doubling up the efforts”. (BOPA)
Posted on: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 04:51:03 +0000

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