{"id":193411,"date":"2025-03-12T19:01:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T17:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswanas-education-system-in-icu\/"},"modified":"2025-03-12T19:01:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T17:01:56","slug":"botswanas-education-system-in-icu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswanas-education-system-in-icu\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana&#8217;s Education System in ICU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">A sad reality on the local education system continued to take toll as an overall record of over 30 000 candidates have technically failed the Botswana General Certificate of Secondary Education (BGCSE) 2024 examinations, with an overall 98% fail rate recorded by the class of 2024 painting bleak future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Announcing results last Friday, Minister of Child Welfare and Basic Education Dr Nono Kgafela-Mokoka and the Botswana Examination Council (BEC) executives were at pain to explain the poor&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503120349.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sad reality on the local education system continued to take toll as an overall record of over 30 000 candidates have technically failed the Botswana General Certificate of Secondary Education (BGCSE) 2024 examinations, with an overall 98% fail rate recorded by the class of 2024 painting bleak future. Announcing results last Friday, Minister of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":193412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,2462,10477,1632,11121,257,254,7232],"class_list":["post-193411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana-news","tag-botswanas","tag-education","tag-icu","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-system"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}