The minister of Education, Innovation, Youth, Sport, Arts, and Culture, Sanet Steenkamp, has welcomed learners and teachers back to school for the second semester, urging hard work and dedication to the task at hand.
Learners across the country returned to school this morning for the second semester.
The Students Union of Namibia (SUN) has urged the Ministry of Education to accelerate the payment of non-tuition fees for most students.
The Ministry of Education says its utilities' cost-saving measures are progressing well, with pilot programmes already producing significant financial savings.
The Executive Director for Finance and Administration, Knox Imbuwa, revealed this during NBC's daily programme, Namibia Connects.
The Body of Christ leader, Festus Thomas, questioned the Ministry of Education on why some learners, particularly those registered with Namcol in Okongo, were allocated wrong subjects after paying registration fees.
The Minister of Education, Sanet Steenkamp, has visited the Zambezi Region to assess the impact of flooding on the education sector.
Dr. Steenkamp visited the affected Nankutwe Combined and Namiyundu Primary Schools, as well as the relocation centres at Lusese and Schumansburg Combined School.
The Ministry of Education, Innovation, Youth, Sport, Arts and Culture has launched the Work Integrated Learning Policy.
The volunteer teachers who started teaching at Ndama East Primary School at Rundu four years ago are devastated after they failed to make the cut for the permanent teaching jobs advertised in December last year.
The Minister of Education, Innovation, Youth, Sport, Arts and Culture, Sanet Steenkamp, said they are handling the flood situation affecting schools in the Zambezi Region.
The Namibia Financial Institutions Union (NAFINU) has raised concerns over the reintegration of the National Student Financial Assistance Fund (NSFAF) into the Ministry of Education.
NAFINU says the process has had negative effects on employees.
The ||Kharas Education Director, Nicolaas Eiman, has described the draft National Integrated Early Childhood Development (ECD) Policy as aiming to increase accessibility for children, especially those from underprivileged backgrounds, to ECD centres.
