UB management, SRC should reconcile

Following a violent strike on February 9, 2017 the University of Botswana (UB) main campus closed until March 6. A lot has been written about this particular student strike and countless others years ago.

At the beginning of every year there is a strike at UB. The uprising is always about late payment of allowances and meals. Six days later the minister of Tertiary Education Dr Alfred Madigele in Parliament criticised institutions for not complying with a requirement to submit students’ academic results and registers on time to enable the Department of Tertiary Education Financing (DTEF) to process allowances on time.

He said the normal process is that before a student can be given an allowance, the institution where he or she is studying should have submitted information to DTEF on the student’s status at the beginning of the semester.

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