A wise man, Nelson Mandela, once said: ‘Education is the most powerful
weapon you can use to change the world’ (Mandela, 2009). Similarly, higher
education remains one of the most secured forms of overcoming poverty.
People who have been educated are internationally more able to get access
to decent work than those who have not. The higher the level of education,
the better the chances people have of sustaining their own livelihoods and
that of their families. Bloom (cited in Borode, 2011) confirms that significant
correlations have been found between higher education enrolment and
graduation rates, and poverty reduction, corruption mitigation, reduced
tribalism and nepotism, and lower dependency on state social welfare
resources. The author of this paper tends to agree. The Namibia Population
and Housing Census revealed that people with low education form the bulk
of those that are either unemployed or under-employed (National Statistics
Agency, 2014).