10 Jun 2020

Botswana Open University (BOU), Francistown region is working round the clock to ensure the university complies to the COVID-19 protocols.

Last week, students at BOU’s Selepa learning center in Francistown were sent back to their homes by security guards at the school gate when they showed up to attend their evening lessons.

“We were told by the security guards that there is no health worker to take our temperatures and that there were no sanitisers to clean the tables since we attend classes after Selepa Junior school classes,” said one of the students.

Whilst distance learning students at Selepa were sent back, there were reports that in Tati Siding at Tashata Junior secondary, classes had resumed for the same. 

Francistown regional campus director, Mr Monty Moswela blamed the difficulty on the fact that BOU depended on schools such as Selepa Junior Secondary for facilities to provide lessons for its students.

He said in an interview on Monday that the development had thus forced BOU to wait for mainstream day schools including Selepa Junior Secondary School to receive their own learners first before making any arrangement for its students.

Meanwhile, the regional director has called on learners across their various learning centres to stay put and use all the interactive materials they had been given to study while BOU and mainstream schools’ management were in discussions to make sure normalcy returned.

Mr Moswela however said that at the regional campus there were no problems and everything was set to continue without a glitch. Ends