{"id":13144,"date":"2022-04-18T09:29:43","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T09:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/nmds-to-enhance-its-services"},"modified":"2022-04-18T09:57:32","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T09:57:32","slug":"nmds-to-enhance-its-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/nmds-to-enhance-its-services","title":{"rendered":"NMDS to enhance its services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>The National Manpower Development Secretariat (NMDS held an inauguration for its new National Manpower Development Council (NMDC) which comprises of 13 members<\/p>\n<p>on Monday. The commemoration was also an effort to groom them in assisting NMDS to better perform its duties. The Ministry of Development Planning, Principal Secretary (PS) Sello T\u0161ukulu when officially<\/p>\n<p>launching an orientation for new NMDC clarified that its principal objective is to review testing mechanisms which will be used when awarding sponsorships to<\/p>\n<p>Basotho citizens who qualify for funding, by prioritizing those from needy families. \u201cTheir performance will be looked into consideration so that they are given the first priority<\/p>\n<p>to further their studies at institutions of higher learning as that will help in changing their standards of living,\u201d he said. Again, T\u0161ukulu announced that new sponsorship strategies will be looked into,<\/p>\n<p>including improvement of manpower functions and problem solving mechanisms. Speaking at the orientation NMDS Director Florinah Rakeketsi indicated that NMDC is a<\/p>\n<p>body that is mandated to review NMDS policies, appointed by the Minister of Education and Training fairly where representatives of interest are to be provided for under the 1978 Act (Kingdom of Lesotho Act 1978:35).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe main function of NMDC is to undertake policy formulation and provide directives<\/p>\n<p>to the NMDS. It gives advices to the minister on policies and procedures for provision and administration of bursaries,\u201d she said. Rakeketsi also indicated that skills development is required for the development of the<\/p>\n<p>country, thus loan bursaries are given to eligible Basotho beneficiaries to later improve the country. The loan is repayable after completion of studies<\/p>\n<p>for further loaning to other upcoming students. \u201dNMDS provides loan bursaries to deserving Basotho students, wishing to pursue higher education and training.<\/p>\n<p>It also sponsors students at high schools mainly targeting brilliant and needy students through grant system. Again it specifically administers partially reimbursable loan bursaries on behalf of the Government<\/p>\n<p>of Lesotho for students studying in priority fields at the tertiary and vocational schools locally, regionally and internationally,\u201d explained Rakeketsi.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\">Lesotho<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. The National Manpower Development Secretariat (NMDS held an inauguration for its new National Manpower Development Council (NMDC) which comprises of 13 members on Monday. The commemoration was also an effort to groom them in assisting NMDS to better perform its duties. The Ministry of Development Planning, Principal Secretary (PS) Sello T\u0161ukulu when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":13143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8,16],"tags":[233,246,245],"class_list":["post-13144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-lesotho","tag-lesotho"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NMDS to enhance its services - Lesotho<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The National Manpower Development Secretariat (NMDS held an inauguration for its new National Manpower Development Counc ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/nmds-to-enhance-its-services\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NMDS to enhance its services\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The National Manpower Development Secretariat (NMDS held an inauguration for its new National Manpower Development Counc ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/nmds-to-enhance-its-services\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Lesotho\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-04-18T09:29:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-04-18T09:57:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2022\/04\/img-625d35f44b542.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"403\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/nmds-to-enhance-its-services#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/nmds-to-enhance-its-services\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"NMDS to enhance its services\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-04-18T09:29:43+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-04-18T09:57:32+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/nmds-to-enhance-its-services\"},\"wordCount\":350,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/nmds-to-enhance-its-services#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2022\/04\/img-625d35f44b542.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Lesotho\",\"Lesotho\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"homepage-english\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/nmds-to-enhance-its-services#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/nmds-to-enhance-its-services\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/nmds-to-enhance-its-services\",\"name\":\"NMDS to enhance its services - 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