Omaheke Grade 10 results worrisome - Semba
The Omaheke Region's education director, Peka Semba, says efforts to improve the region's Junior Secondary Certificate (Grade 10) results are yet to bear the desired fruits.
Semba said the region's performance at Grade 10 level remained unsatisfactory despite several strategies implemented to improve such results.
Omaheke has remained in the bottom half of the Grade 10 rankings for the past five years.
Some of the strategies and programmes implemented by the Omaheke education directorate to improve results, according to Semba, include holiday school for learners, the reshuffling of school principals and the hiring of more qualified teachers.
Semba said the lack of consistency in results continued to reflect the region in a bad light, and also made it hard to devise preventive interventions.
“The results are very inconsistent when it comes to the Omaheke Region; one year you see us doing exceptionally well but then we slide way down the rankings in the next year,” he said.
The education director said despite the region's overall weak performance at Grade 10 level, it was not all gloom as individual schools continued to score good points at that level.
“Some schools like Gustav Kandjii and others did well in their Grade 10 examinations of 2017, but the overall ranking is affected by those schools that did not do so well,” said Semba.
He was full of praise for the region's National Senior Secondary Certificate (NSSC) Higher Level learners, who he said continue to fly Omaheke's flag high with their good performance.
“Although we only have a few learners doing subjects at this level, we are proud of their achievement as they continue to score good marks which make them eligible for university admission,” said the director.
Omaheke offers NSSC Higher Level subjects at only four schools - Wennie du Plessis, Epako, Gustav Kandjii and Gymnasium High School.
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Semba said the region's performance at Grade 10 level remained unsatisfactory despite several strategies implemented to improve such results.
Omaheke has remained in the bottom half of the Grade 10 rankings for the past five years.
Some of the strategies and programmes implemented by the Omaheke education directorate to improve results, according to Semba, include holiday school for learners, the reshuffling of school principals and the hiring of more qualified teachers.
Semba said the lack of consistency in results continued to reflect the region in a bad light, and also made it hard to devise preventive interventions.
“The results are very inconsistent when it comes to the Omaheke Region; one year you see us doing exceptionally well but then we slide way down the rankings in the next year,” he said.
The education director said despite the region's overall weak performance at Grade 10 level, it was not all gloom as individual schools continued to score good points at that level.
“Some schools like Gustav Kandjii and others did well in their Grade 10 examinations of 2017, but the overall ranking is affected by those schools that did not do so well,” said Semba.
He was full of praise for the region's National Senior Secondary Certificate (NSSC) Higher Level learners, who he said continue to fly Omaheke's flag high with their good performance.
“Although we only have a few learners doing subjects at this level, we are proud of their achievement as they continue to score good marks which make them eligible for university admission,” said the director.
Omaheke offers NSSC Higher Level subjects at only four schools - Wennie du Plessis, Epako, Gustav Kandjii and Gymnasium High School.
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