Govt discriminates against 'own' diplomates :: Mmegi Online

The Ministry of Education and Skills Development (MoE) continues to sign memorandums of agreement with students to pursue diploma courses at local public and private intitutions even though many government programmes discriminate against diploma holders for both employment and further studies.

Even MoE itself does not guarantee that upon completing their diploma courses, the students will progress to pursue degrees on government sponsorship.

MoE spokesperson, Nomsa Zuze says a student is given only one chance to enrol for tertiary education and that sponsorship for further studies depends on availability of funds. Explaining what happens, Zuze says the ministry and any given student sign a memorandum of agreement once and that should such a student want degree level sponsorship, they join the queue for consideration.

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