Africa-Press – Botswana. Hopes to have a new primary school in Radisele village have been defeated as enrolment at the existing school does not warrant construction of another one.
That came to light in Parliament from a response to a question by Assistant Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Mr Sethabelo Modukanele on Wednesday.
“There are no plans to construct a new primary school in Radisele. Radisele Primary School has not yet reached full operational capacity relative to the school enrolment.
The student-teacher ratio is currently 1:25 which is within the ratio as per the Revised National Policy of Education of 1994,” Mr Modukanele explained.
He said the school currently had at 837 pupils and the numbers were below the stipulated threshold of 880 pupils stipulated in the 1994 Revised National Policy of Education.
Mr Modukanele also said the school had 22 classrooms and 37 toilet cubicles and had met the maximum infrastructure requirements of the revised education policy.
“However, the ministry will consider the construction of a new school with other priorities through the normal planning processes,” he added.
Member of Parliament for Serowe South, Mr Leepetswe Lesedi had wanted to know when a new primary school would be constructed in Radisele, owing to the population increase and expansion in the school’s catchment areas of Madiaela and Mokoro villages.
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