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Katuka Mentorship Programme Launches 2024 Women in Business Training Sessions
By: Dolly Menas The Katuka Mentorship Programme inaugurated its 2024 training session, promising to impart skills from young female entrepreneurs to eager participants. Hayley Allen, Head of Strategic Communication at Bank Windhoek, emphasised the program’s role as a bridge for young women and their aspirations to contribute meaningfully to Namibia’s future. “The essence […]
Rossing Foundation to Invest N$2.4 Million in School Textbooks
By: Nghiinomenwa-vali Erastus The Rossing Foundation has committed N$2.4 million to provide science-related textbooks and learning materials to 18 schools across the country in this year. The first tranche of this commitment, totaling N$782,908, was recently distributed to three schools in the Kunene, Omusati, and Ohangwena Regions. Maria Immanuel, the Foundation’s Community Liaison […]
The Economy Needs More Than Teachers and Nurses To Thrive – Analysts
Loise Shiimi Education stakeholders have been urged to play a more active role in guiding parents and secondary school graduates toward career paths that align with the country’s economic development and diversification goals. Over the years, Namibia has seen a huge number of pupils graduating from high school opting to pursue studies in education […]
Kunene Exam Results Evoke Mixed Emotions
Uakutura Kambaekua The Kunene region failed to improve on its national rankings as the least performing region in the Namibia Senior Secondary Certificate Ordinary and Advanced Subsidiary Levels, remaining at the bottom of the national rankings for the second consecutive year. This is despite a slight improvement in the results nationally recorded this […]
Parents Struggling With Expensive Pupils Stationery Lists
By: Juliana Iikela and Joseph Jeremia Many parents are struggling with the affordability of stationeries and other school supplies for their children despite having been given ample time to purchase them. Although schools handed out lists of required stationeries and other supplies to pupils in December last year, some still turned up with […]
UNAM’s AMT Project Receives Prestigious Royal Astronomical Society Medal
By: Staff Writer The mobile planetarium team of the Africa Millimetre Telescope (AMT) project, a collaboration between the University of Namibia and Radboud University in the Netherlands, has been honoured with the 2024 Annie Maunder Medal for Outreach by the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) in the UK. The mobile planetarium serves as a […]
Siguruguru Tent School Gets New Classrooms
By: Annakleta Haikera Siguruguru Primary School, accommodating nearly 900 learners in Kavango East, has undergone a remarkable transformation with the construction of new classrooms and an administration block for teachers. The school faced numerous challenges in recent years, notably last February when heavy rains and winds led to the destruction of about 14 […]
Pupils Preferred Education Than Other Courses In 2022 and 2023…female dominance in enrolment
By: Nghiinomenwa-vali Erastus and Loise Shiimi After leaving high school, Namibian pupils prefer to study education rather than any other courses in their first years at university, a phenomenon that has contributed to the overproduction of teachers who cannot find jobs. Last week Minister of Education, Anna Nghipondoka advised high school graduates to […]
Kavango East Pupils Shine in National Exam Results
By: Annakleta Haikera Pupils from the Kavango East region dominated the top 20 best performers in the 2023 Grade 11 and 12 national examination results released this week. Twelve of the pupils who made the list were enrolled at private and public schools in the region. Rukonga Vision School in the Divundu area led […]
High School Exam Results to Decide Fate of 85,143 Pupils
By: Justicia Shipena As Namibian pupils and parents stand on the edge of suspense, awaiting the results of the Namibia Senior Secondary Certificate Ordinary and Advanced Subsidiary Levels (NSSCO and NSSCAS) national examinations, expectations and concerns linger. The Ministry of Education, Arts, and Culture reported significant progress in marking and data processing, with […]