Africa-Press – Lesotho. Friday saw the 15th joined graduation ceremony of the Institute of Development Management (IDM) 2021 graduates at the IDM Lesotho campus in Maseru. IDM
Principal Consultant Tšo Sechaba said the institute offers training in three departments which are Human Resource and Organizational Development, Public Health and Business Information Management.
He said they want to focus more on the training of students who are first-timers, while not disregarding those who have been to school and still want to pursue their
studies. “This year, 90 graduates were awarded certificates which match with their different courses of study, those were Diploma in Accounting and Business studies,
Diploma in Human Resource Management, Diploma in community Development, Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety and Diploma in Procurement and Supply
Management. They deserve them; this year has not been easy due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Lockdown was the major problem as other students had no equipments to
learn. We had to resort to online platforms as they were the only solutions to learning,” he reflected. The theme for this year’s celebration was; “Be
Bold, Be Courageous and Be your Best”. Reacting to the connotation of the theme, Sechaba sent best wishes to the graduates and urged them to bravely embark on a new journey, he said the pandemic has forced them to grow thicker
skin. IDM lecturer from the department of Human Resource Management Morena Mokhathi mentioned that it had not been a smooth journey. “With the challenges that were
imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic, we had to switch to online teaching, where many challenge were anticipated. It is well known that our students are not
sponsored by NMDS [National Manpower Development Secretariat] but are self-sponsored, they had to cater for extra costs to buy data, also some of them were from remote areas so they had trouble with network and that slowed
their learning, to overcome the challenges we had to extend time to our teaching,” he noted. On behalf of the graduates, a Diploma in Human Resource Management graduate Palesa
Holomo mentioned that when she came to pursue her studies at IDM as a former Lerotholi Polytechnic student, her aim was to develop herself emotionally,
physically and academically. She mentioned that during the process when the institute was shaping her she has proudly acquired leadership skills. IDM has been training first-time students in college and those pursuing their studies since 2012.
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