The term ‘enrolment’ refers to the level of study (JSC, IGCSE or CED, CYP, NHDABET) into which a learner’s record falls.
The total number of enrolments for the past 10 years, since 1995, is given in Figure 2.1. The graph shows continuous growth in the number of enrolments from 1995 to 2002. However, enrolments started to decline steeply in 2003 and 2004 by 18% and 4%, respectively. These negative growth rates suggest that NAMCOL could henceforth look at average enrolment s of 25,000 per year.
Figure 2.1: NAMCOL Enrolments, 1995-2004
Figure 2.2, below, shows the enrolments for professional programmes over the last five years. A decrease of 17.3% is observed with respect to CED enrolments in 2004, if compared to 2003. See pages 20 and 21 for more detail about these courses.
Figure 2.2: NAMCOL Professional Programmes Enrolments, 2000-2004
The CED programme was offered during the full period under review, while the CYP and NHDABET were introduced in 2002 and 2004, respectively. The CYP is an 18-month programme, hence all learners who started with the programme in 2002 continued in 2003 and 2004, therefore these figures are not reflected for these latter periods.
Alternative Secondary Education Subject
Enrolments By Regional
Distribution
NAMCOL adopted a four-region structure after it was separated from the Ministry of Education in 1998. These regions are illustrated on the inside front cover of this Digest. The NAMCOL regions include the following political regions:
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Northern Region includes:
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Omusati, Oshana, Ohangwena and Oshikoto
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North-Eastern Region includes:
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Kavango and Caprivi
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Central Region includes:
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Kunene, Erongo and Otjozondjupa
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Southern Region includes:
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Khomas, Hardap, Karas, Omaheke and part of Otjozondjupa
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Figure 2.3 shows the 2003 subject enrolments for each of the
above-mentioned NAMCOL regions. Overall, most subject enrolments were recorded
in the Northern region with 54.6% JSC and 38.7% IGCSE, followed by the Southern
region 22.2% JSC and 36.9% IGCSE. Note that the subject enrolments for both JCS
and IGCSE do not differ much in the remaining two regions.
Figure 2.3: JSC Subject Enrolments by NAMCOL Region, 2004
Figure 2.4: IGCSE Subject Enrolments by NAMCOL Region, 2004
The detailed breakdown of subject enrolments by NAMCOL regions, political
regions, level and mode of study is given as part the appendices (Table I).
According to Table I, the Khomas political region has recorded the
highest number of subject enrolments followed by the Oshana political region,
while the Hardap political region recorded the lowest number of subject
enrolments. The ratio of lowest subject enrolments (Hardap political region) and
highest subject enrolments (Khomas region) was 10:137, which means that for
every 10-subject enrolments recorded in the Hardap political region, 137
subjects enrolments were recorded in the Khomas political region. All subject
enrolments for CED, NHDABET and CYP were recorded in the Khomas political region
this year.
A total of 89.3% of the JSC subject enrolments were taken through the OPEN
(contact) option. In comparison, 59.8% of IGCSE subject enrolments were taken
through the Open (contact) option.
Number Of Alternative Secondary Education Subject
Enrolments
A “subject enrolment” refers to each subject for
which a learner has enrolled, regardless of the level or mode of study.
A total number of 53,806 subject enrolments were recorded in 2004 - see
Table II
for a detailed breakdown of subject enrolments by subject, level and mode of
study. At JSC level, the highest subject enrolments were recorded in Life
Science, English Second Language, Business Management and Agriculture, while the
highest number of subject enrolments at the IGCSE level was recorded in English
Second Language, Development Studies and Biology.
The National Examinations, Assessment and
Certification Board of Namibia restricts part-time candidates to a maximum of 3
subjects, when registering for the first-time in the JSC or IGCSE examinations.
However, learners who attempt the examinations for a second time are allowed to
enrol for more than three subjects.
Figure 2.5 shows the total number of subjects that learners enrolled for during
2004. Most learners at both IGCSE and JSC levels registered for less than 4
subjects. A total of 3356 of IGCSE learners registered for one subject only
compared to 2125 of JSC learners. However, more JSC learners enrolled for more
than two subjects when compared to IGCSE learners. The same trend was also
observed in 2003.
Figure 2.5: Number of
Subjects Taken by Learners at ASE levels, 2004
