Statistics Botswana (SB) and Ministry of Basic Education (MoBE) signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the 10th September 2019 to strengthen collaboration and promote effective and efficient production and use of official statistics relating to Basic Education. The signing was spearheaded by Statistics Botswana Statistician General Dr Burton Mguni and MoBE Permanent Secretary Ms Bridget John.
The MoU also aims to strengthen cooperation of both entities in areas of;
•Production and provision of quality and timely basic education statistics
•Collaboration in interfacing management information system to promote seamless sharing of education data and statistics, innovative data processing, dissemination
•Statistical capacity building; and
•General development and implementation of the basic education sector statistic plans or strategies.