Online School & Homeschool in Oshakati & the Northern Regions

Online school and homeschool in Oshakati and northern Namibia

For Oshakati, Ondangwa and Ongwediva families — where most Namibians live, and where no international school has ever been built.

Live online Cambridge IGCSE, Cambridge A-Level, Pearson Edexcel International, IB Diploma Programme, and American Curriculum with Advanced Placement (AP) for northern Namibian families. The four north-central regions hold the largest share of Namibia's population, and the Oshakati-Ondangwa-Ongwediva corridor is their commercial heart — retail and wholesale trade, transport, health and education services, a university presence, and cross-border commerce toward Angola. It is also the part of the country with no international schooling of any kind, and Windhoek is around seven hundred kilometres south. For northern families whose children are academically ambitious, the historical answer has been boarding in the capital or in South Africa. Smartious delivers the international pathways live to the north instead, one hour ahead of you all year.

Challenges Oshakati & the Northern Regions families face

No international schooling anywhere in the northern regions, with Windhoek around seven hundred kilometres south.
Boarding in the capital or South Africa has been the only route to an internationally examined record.
Compulsory school attendance runs under section 9 of the Basic Education Act 3 of 2020.
Exam sittings mean travel, planned well ahead.
Time zone: the north runs CAT (UTC+2) year-round — exactly one hour behind Nairobi EAT.

Why Oshakati & the Northern Regions families choose Smartious

The complete option where none has ever existed: Identical live delivery in Oshakati and Windhoek — the international pathway the north has never had.
The alternative to sending a child seven hundred kilometres away: Boarding in the capital or South Africa has been the only route. Live teaching reaches the north instead.
Pre-medical and commerce depth: Cambridge A-Level Biology and Chemistry for medicine-bound students, Economics and Mathematics for the trading families who run the corridor.
One hour from your teachers, all year: The north and Nairobi are an hour apart with no seasonal change on either side.
An African school teaching African families: Nairobi-built and Nairobi-taught, working to African school calendars and examination realities.

The national framework applies in the north. School attendance is compulsory under section 9 of the Basic Education Act 3 of 2020 from the year a learner turns six, with an exemption power where that is in the learner's best interests. Namibia defines home schooling in the Act — instruction in which parents, care-givers, or privately appointed tutors or service providers teach a legally approved academic curriculum at home instead of at a school — and requires registration. Whether a particular international programme is a legally approved academic curriculum for that purpose is a question for the Ministry of Education and the regional director rather than for us, so our clean default is supplementary alongside a local school enrolment. In a region seven hundred kilometres from the nearest international campus, that configuration delivers the examined record without anyone leaving home.

Smartious delivers to northern Namibian families online; the live programme is complete without in-person supplementation.

Live online via Smartious LMS, landing in the ordinary school day on the one-hour offset, with every session recorded.

The four north-central regions hold the largest share of Namibia's population, with the Oshakati-Ondangwa-Ongwediva corridor as their commercial heart and cross-border trade toward Angola — and no international schooling anywhere in the region, with Windhoek seven hundred kilometres south. The north runs CAT (UTC+2) year-round, one hour behind Nairobi EAT.

Family situations we work with

Trade, retail, and transport business families across the northern corridor.
Health, education, and public-service professional families.
University and academic families in the north.
Cross-border commerce families trading toward Angola.
Students aiming at Namibian, South African, or overseas universities from a northern base.

Oshakati & the Northern Regions communities and nearby areas

Oshakati · Ondangwa · Ongwediva · Outapi · Eenhana · Tsumeb · the Angolan border at Oshikango

Common questions from Oshakati & the Northern Regions families

Is there any international schooling in northern Namibia?

None — the country's provision sits in Windhoek, around seven hundred kilometres south. Live online delivery is the complete option for the north, run alongside a local school enrolment.

Do we have to send our child to board in Windhoek or South Africa?

That has been the historical answer for academically ambitious northern students. It no longer needs to be: the same teaching reaches Oshakati, with examination travel a few times a year instead of a child living away.

Where do northern students sit Cambridge examinations?

At authorised centres confirmed per family per session, with travel planned well ahead of each series.

Guides for families in Namibia

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