Schools to open on time

Public schools will reopen on 30 May for the second trimester as per the approved 2017 school calendar, and not on 11 June as is being falsely circulated, the Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture announced yesterday.Equally, school hostels for boarding learners will open on 29 May. The ministry made this urgent announcement after “false information” was circulated in which education minister Katrina Hanse-Himarwa purportedly had announced that hostels would instead open on 11 June because the government is allegedly struggling with costs and would have to cut “too much from hostel schools”, especially at secondary schools. This “false” information was circulated on www.edu.com.na which is a website of one of the educational institutions in Namibia.It is, however, not the official website of the ministry, which is www.moe.gov.na. “We understand the panic and confusion that this [false] message has caused and would like to assure all learners, parents, guardians, teachers and all stakeholders that the content is false and unfounded,” said the permanent secretary of the ministry, Sanet Steenkamp.The false information resonated with the schooling community especially after public schools had been forcibly and abruptly closed three days earlier for the holidays on 21 April instead of 26 April presumably due to “administrative reasons”. Staff Reporter

Schools to open on time

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Namibian Sun 2025-03-19

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