{"id":214299,"date":"2025-11-20T21:08:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T19:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-botepco-and-bou-strives-to-professionalise-teaching\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T21:08:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T19:08:34","slug":"botswana-botepco-and-bou-strives-to-professionalise-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-botepco-and-bou-strives-to-professionalise-teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Botepco and Bou Strives to Professionalise Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Gaborone \u2014 The Botswana Teaching Professional Council (BOTEPCO) has cemented a broad partnership with the Botswana Open University (BOU) to accelerate teacher professionalisation, strengthen digital literacy and support the rollout of national teaching standards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">The partnership was formalised on Monday during the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Gaborone. BOTEPCO registrar, Dr Raphael Dingalo said the MoU came at a pivotal moment as the council had begun national registration&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511200576.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>Gaborone \u2014 The Botswana Teaching Professional Council (BOTEPCO) has cemented a broad partnership with the Botswana Open University (BOU) to accelerate teacher professionalisation, strengthen digital literacy and support the rollout of national teaching standards. The partnership was formalised on Monday during the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Gaborone. BOTEPCO registrar, Dr Raphael [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":214300,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,52909,4718,2462,19716,257,49897,254,15285,9199],"class_list":["post-214299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botepco","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-bou","tag-news","tag-professionalise","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strives","tag-teaching"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/214299","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=214299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}