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EDUCATION SYSTEM IN NAMIBIA[edit]
Education is the key to sucess among all the nation all over the world.Long time ago people in Namibia had a poor education system compared to nowadays education. Bantu education was the first education system introduced in Namibia with the help of the Finland people that came in Namibia before and established small school that some are still open even though some are close due to the lack of funds and other reasons. On the way back before, Namibia suffered colonial era by Germans,so they were not free to use their resouces the way they felt they wanted to use them which in the end lead to most of the Namibians being taught under the trees while few of them had classroom that were not conducive at all. Until Namibia's independence, the country's education system was designed to reinforce apartheid rather than provide the necessary human resource base to promote equitable social and economic development. It was fragmented along racial and ethnic lines, with vast disparities in both the allocation of resources and the quality of education offered.[1] Namibia got its idepedence on the 21 march 1990 where most things change from worse to better and Bantu education was among those that the government put on consideration first. Bantu education changed to the modern education system that people still use in the land of the brave.On the other hand, Namibia's current Minister of Education Abraham Iyambo summarily described the Namibian education system as "crippled", citing dropout rates, lack of teaching facilities, financial difficulties, sub-standard vocational training, and absence of pre-primary development. A National Conference on Education, running from 27 June to 1 July 2011, was conferred to address the most pressing issues.[2].
Namibia current education is now doing well and can be compare with developed countries education system as Namibia provide quality education now. Education sector start from pre-primary,primary,secondary and tertiary.Namibia has two public tertiary institutions of general education, the Polytechnic of Namibia and the University of Namibia (UNAM). At the Polytechnic of Namibia admission is based on grade 12 certificate with a maximum of five qualifying subjects with a total score of 25 points or more and a E symbol or better in English. At the University of Namibia’s basic requirement for entrance to undergraduate degree programmes is a Namibia Senior Secondary Certificate (NSSC) with a pass in five subjects with a total score of 25 points. on the UNAM evaluation scale, or more in not more than three examination sittings.
There are a number of specialised tertiary educational institutions such as the College of the Arts (Cota) in Windhoek, the Namibian Maritime and Fisheries Institute (NAMFI) in Walvis Bay, and the Namibian Institute of Mining and Technology (NIMT) in Arandis.[3].
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