KING’S CHALLENGE FOR NGWANE GRADUATES

NHLANGANO – If the country is serious about changing its fortunes, then things have to be done differently, especially in the education sector.

These were the sentiments expressed by His Majesty King Mswati III as he called for an overhaul of the country’s education system to make it consonant with the national vision of achieving first world status by 2022.

During his address of the congregation yesterday during Ngwane College’s 35th Graduation Ceremony, the Head of State highlighted issues of industrialisation and technology as those that should be at the top of the kingdom’s priorities if the nation still nurses hopes of making huge development strides within the period left before reaching the year 2022.

“As emaSwati, we are all con- vinced that rapid progress to the attainment of our vision can only be realised if we all do an introspection, and engage in implementing changes in the type of education, as well as the manner in which education is implemented in the kingdom,” the king said.

To this end, His Majesty the King said he was happy that government has developed a national curriculum framework for general education.
He hinted that the framework illustrates how learning and teaching should be organised to achieve the country’s desired results.

“We have been informed that the curriculum embraces issues of industrialisation and technology even at primary school level. It also emphasises skills development. In this regard, we are happy that our training institutions are now going to produce prospective teachers who shall be well versed with the competency based curriculum,” he said.
The king then threw a challenge on teacher training institutions to ensure that this competency based curriculum is well understood by trainees to guarantee that they would be able to impart the necessary knowledge, information and skills required.

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