School with 0% pass rate
A school in the Oshikoto Region scored a 100% failure rate in last year's NSSC ordinary level exams.
The 71 learners at Emanya Secondary School who sat for the final Grade 12 examinations all failed.
Last week the education ministry released the 2017 Grade 12 NSSC ordinary level results and for the first time, the Emanya Secondary School in the Oshikoto Region recorded a 100% failure rate.
The results shocked many because the school has been performing outstandingly in the Grade 10 Junior Secondary Certificate (JSC) examinations, where a pass rate between 90% and 100% has been recorded for more than five years.
Speaking to Namibian Sun, Emanya principal Iileka Malakia said he was unimpressed by the results but added that he would ensure that they turned the situation around.
“I cannot comment for now but I am aware of the problem and I am not impressed by the results. I am looking at the issue and I know what to do so that the situation can improve. We are going to try our best to turn it around,” Malakia said.
Malakia said they would replicate the methods used to teach Grade 10 pupils to help the Grade 12s to produce excellent results too.
Contacted for comment, Oshikoto Region's education director Lameck Kafidi attributed the poor performance of some of the schools in his region to a lack of boarding schools and inexperienced teachers.
Kafidi said learners at boarding schools tended to perform better than others.
Kafidi explained that learners who end up at schools far from home are exposed to difficult conditions, including being accommodated at the houses of strangers where they are expected to do all sorts of chores.
Some learners are forced to rent accommodation in informal areas where they are not able to focus on their school work because they must work to pay the rent and buy food.
“Emanya is a non-boarding school and thus we have to accommodate these learners somewhere and they end up at people's houses and without the support of their parents,” Kafidi said.
Kafidi said the inexperience of the Grade 12 teachers at Emanya also played a role in the poor performance, as the school only recently introduced the grade.
He said the region would do a proper analysis of the outcome of the Grade 10 and 12 results and proper measures would be put in place to address the problems.
The poor Grade 12 performance has been criticised as only 39.3% or 8 632 full-time candidates qualified for entry into universities or other higher learning institutions. Overall, 56 305 candidates, of whom 34 214 were part-time students, wrote their NSSC ordinary level exams in 2017, an increase of 9.3% from 51 527 in 2016 to 56 305 last year.
Further, the overall performance in key subjects failed to achieve targets set per the NDP5 for full-time learners scoring a D or better.
An average of 29.8 was achieved in English second language, below the target of 30%, while 41.7% was achieved in Mathematics, below the target of 47%.
In Physical Science, the average score of a D and higher was 46.1%, below the 49% target.
KENYA KAMBOWE
Last week the education ministry released the 2017 Grade 12 NSSC ordinary level results and for the first time, the Emanya Secondary School in the Oshikoto Region recorded a 100% failure rate.
The results shocked many because the school has been performing outstandingly in the Grade 10 Junior Secondary Certificate (JSC) examinations, where a pass rate between 90% and 100% has been recorded for more than five years.
Speaking to Namibian Sun, Emanya principal Iileka Malakia said he was unimpressed by the results but added that he would ensure that they turned the situation around.
“I cannot comment for now but I am aware of the problem and I am not impressed by the results. I am looking at the issue and I know what to do so that the situation can improve. We are going to try our best to turn it around,” Malakia said.
Malakia said they would replicate the methods used to teach Grade 10 pupils to help the Grade 12s to produce excellent results too.
Contacted for comment, Oshikoto Region's education director Lameck Kafidi attributed the poor performance of some of the schools in his region to a lack of boarding schools and inexperienced teachers.
Kafidi said learners at boarding schools tended to perform better than others.
Kafidi explained that learners who end up at schools far from home are exposed to difficult conditions, including being accommodated at the houses of strangers where they are expected to do all sorts of chores.
Some learners are forced to rent accommodation in informal areas where they are not able to focus on their school work because they must work to pay the rent and buy food.
“Emanya is a non-boarding school and thus we have to accommodate these learners somewhere and they end up at people's houses and without the support of their parents,” Kafidi said.
Kafidi said the inexperience of the Grade 12 teachers at Emanya also played a role in the poor performance, as the school only recently introduced the grade.
He said the region would do a proper analysis of the outcome of the Grade 10 and 12 results and proper measures would be put in place to address the problems.
The poor Grade 12 performance has been criticised as only 39.3% or 8 632 full-time candidates qualified for entry into universities or other higher learning institutions. Overall, 56 305 candidates, of whom 34 214 were part-time students, wrote their NSSC ordinary level exams in 2017, an increase of 9.3% from 51 527 in 2016 to 56 305 last year.
Further, the overall performance in key subjects failed to achieve targets set per the NDP5 for full-time learners scoring a D or better.
An average of 29.8 was achieved in English second language, below the target of 30%, while 41.7% was achieved in Mathematics, below the target of 47%.
In Physical Science, the average score of a D and higher was 46.1%, below the 49% target.
KENYA KAMBOWE
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