Many learners still not placed
The educational directorate for the Khomas Region has managed to place 354 learners who failed to meet the admission requirements for Grade 11 last year.
This comes after an outcry by some parents who complained that their children are too young to be out of school.
The education minister, Katrina Hanse-Himarwa, made it clear during the announcement of the Junior Secondary Certificate (JSC) national examination results in November last year that Grade 10 failures who are 17 and younger would only be allowed to repeat if there was space at schools.
About 18 137 full-time Grade 10 candidates throughout the country failed.
The region's deputy director for programmes and quality assurance, Paulus Lewin, told Nampa there were limited spaces in schools for Grade 10 repeaters, and those who have been placed are very fortunate.
He said it was unfortunate that learners were faced with this challenge, but “they have only themselves to blame for a lack of commitment to their school work”.
Lewin said it was impossible to take back all the learners because schools simply did not have the resources, including teaching staff, to accommodate them.
“I however advise parents to stop wasting time at schools and rather send their children to register at Namibian College of Open Learning (Namcol) and other accredited private institutions, where they can re-do two or three subjects instead of all nine subjects,” Lewis added.
Registration for Namcol ends on 7 February. The Khomas Region is also experiencing a lack space for roughly 450 prospective Grade 1 learners and 473 Grade 8 learners.
“We are planning to identify some schools to set up tents and evenly distribute these learners as we are running out of time,” Lewin said.
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This comes after an outcry by some parents who complained that their children are too young to be out of school.
The education minister, Katrina Hanse-Himarwa, made it clear during the announcement of the Junior Secondary Certificate (JSC) national examination results in November last year that Grade 10 failures who are 17 and younger would only be allowed to repeat if there was space at schools.
About 18 137 full-time Grade 10 candidates throughout the country failed.
The region's deputy director for programmes and quality assurance, Paulus Lewin, told Nampa there were limited spaces in schools for Grade 10 repeaters, and those who have been placed are very fortunate.
He said it was unfortunate that learners were faced with this challenge, but “they have only themselves to blame for a lack of commitment to their school work”.
Lewin said it was impossible to take back all the learners because schools simply did not have the resources, including teaching staff, to accommodate them.
“I however advise parents to stop wasting time at schools and rather send their children to register at Namibian College of Open Learning (Namcol) and other accredited private institutions, where they can re-do two or three subjects instead of all nine subjects,” Lewis added.
Registration for Namcol ends on 7 February. The Khomas Region is also experiencing a lack space for roughly 450 prospective Grade 1 learners and 473 Grade 8 learners.
“We are planning to identify some schools to set up tents and evenly distribute these learners as we are running out of time,” Lewin said.
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