Africa-Press – Botswana. Skills fair and career clinics provide career related information to prospective learners, Human Resources Development Council (HRDC), chief executive officer, Professor Alinah Segobye has said.
Speaking at a two-day skills fair and career clinic in Maun recently, she said the event availed education and training institutions an opportunity to converge under one roof to showcase learner-centered education and training opportunities.
Prof. Segobye said the clinic was a strategic stakeholder engagement activity geared towards promoting the education and training sector.
She said in an interview on the side-lines of the event that the career clinic was meant to assist learners, families and businesses to understand the nature of skills and careers needed in the economy.
She commended education and training institutions as well as prospective learners for responding positively to this year’s event, noting that it had provided information to learners using multiple approaches.
“We have decided to come to Maun to bring one of our core services to the communities of Maun and surroundings to assist and advise prospective learners about the programmes of study that are in line with career paths marketable,” she added.
Prof. Segobye expressed concern that many young people attended school without acquiring literacy skills, leaving them unable to compete in the job market.
A lecturer from Botswana University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (BUAN), Dr Keoikantse Sianga, hailed the initiative as a good move that enabled institutions to reach out to prospective students.
Many learners, he said, were frequenting stalls to enquire about available courses, with some of them applying on the spot.
Dr Sianga said BUAN also played a key role in demonstrating key programmes that learners could take to solve real life situations.
“We had an interesting interaction with our potential students in Ngamiland as many had an opportunity to select courses, which they found key in securing jobs after they graduate.
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