The Spokesperson of Ndama Community, Ndumba Paulus reiterated that residents of Ndama East are not happy with the decision to transfer the learners to the new school.

The Deputy Minister of Education, Arts, and Culture, Faustina Caley, met with residents of Ndama, with discussions centred around a dispute over a site designated to construct a school.

Parents, demanding that the school be constructed in Ndama East, refused to meet with the deputy minister.

The meeting began positively, with a significant turnout of parents and community members.

The Acting Director of Education, Arts, and Culture, Christine Shilima, provided an account to the community of how the dispute had begun.

The Deputy Minister of Education, Arts, and Culture, Faustina Caley, says the release of more health professionals into the healthcare system is hoped to narrow the shortage of health workers in Namibia.

She was speaking at the graduation ceremony of the Alba Chipamba Training Centre (ACTC) at Rundu.

The ACTC hosted its second graduation ceremony, with at least 130 nursing students graduating from the centre.

During the graduation ceremony, Caley applauded the institution for offering nursing courses to meet the country's demand. 

Popular Democratic Movement MP Nico Smit has requested an investigation and a full audit into the expenditure of the Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture for the 2022/2023 Financial Year.

Smit who made the request in the National Assembly, says an investigation into the ministry's expenditure of N$14 billion allocated for the 2022/2023 financial year, with specific reference to infrastructure and textbook expenditure, is needed.

Teachers at Eldorado Secondary School in Windhoek refused to teach lessons yesterday after a fellow teacher was stabbed in the chest by a father of a learner.

The teacher was stabbed with a screwdriver after he slapped a learner who in turn called his father to deal with the elder man.

When the nbc News crew arrived at the school, teachers were in a meeting with the education inspector.

Learners, who refused to speak on camera told nbc News that they only attended the first lesson of the day.

The Ministry of Education, Arts, and Culture, in collaboration with the Namibia National Commission for UNESCO, is hosting an eight-day community-based heritage workshop at Opuwo in the Kunene Region.

The workshop brought together 34 key community representatives from Omaheke, Otjozondjupa, Kunene, and Erongo regions.

The workshop aims to safeguard the Okuruuo project, loosely translated as "the holy fire," through community-based capacity building, inventorying, and documentation intervention in Namibia.

The Oshikoto Region emerged as the overall winner of the second Namibia Mathematics Olympiad (NMO), which was held in the capital on Thursday, the region had four participating schools, Tsumeb Secondary School, Oshilulu Community School, Onguti Secondary School, and Heroes Private School, which each received N$10,000 worth of mathematics and science equipment.