Learning Outsmarts Technology

As the minister officially opened the academic year on Monday last week, the familiar themes of access, opportunity and national development framed the start of learning across Namibia.

Expectations are renewed that education must prepare young people for a rapidly changing world. Artificial intelligence (AI) has entered education as a lived reality.

Pupils are using it, educators are encountering it, and institutions are forced to respond. In doing so, AI is exposing weaknesses in education systems that go far beyond technology.