Africa-Press – Botswana. Nineteen public and private higher education institutions will embark on a roadshow this month across the country to extend their services to communities, including remote area ones.
The 2023 national tertiary institutions roadshow is aimed at providing a platform for BGCSE/IGCSE class of 2022 to apply for tertiary institutions next intake.
Speaking during the roadshow launch in Gaborone Thursday, the roadshow committee chairperson, Mr Chris Moiketsi said the institutions had found it fit to take their services to communities in order to provide equal opportunities to the youth throughout the country.
He noted that since the inception of the roadshow in 2015, thousands of students had been admitted into tertiary institutions through collective efforts of responding to the National Human Resource Development strategy.
He said the strategy would ensure that the government’s goal of achieving a knowledge-based economy was successful.
For his part, Business Botswana education sector chairperson, Mr Golekanye Setume said the initiative was a true reflection of the ideals espoused in the national human resource development strategy.
He added that the strategy seeks to unify all higher education providers and to provide opportunities for complementarity as opposed to competition.
“After all we serve one economy, and this is consistent with the evolution of the tertiary education funding mechanism, which started off as a bursary scheme training people mainly for the public service to meet the urgent needs to the then young public service,” he said.
He stated that with time and upon realisation that the economy was bigger than the public service, the scheme was broadened to what it was now, providing funding for students who wished to pursue higher education for the wider economy.
He added that the roadshow would promote higher education by imbibing the values and benefits of higher education to prospective students, parents and communities.
Mr Setume also appealed to the public, parents and prospective students to take advantage of the opportunity to get career guidance and counselling services.
The national roadshow started yesterday and will end on May 15.
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