Letsholathebe To Resolve GUC, ERB Impasse

Douglas Letsholathebe PIC: LESEDI MKHUTSHWA
Douglas Letsholathebe PIC: LESEDI MKHUTSHWA

Following the recent protest by Gaborone University College of Law (GUC) over non-recognition of their programmes of learning by the Engineers Registration Board (ERB), the Minister of Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Douglas Letsholathebe has said they will resolve the impasse.

Completing Bachelor of Technology in Construction Engineering students at the Institution’s Mmopane Campus last week embarked on a demonstration stating that the non-recognition of the course by ERB means that they would end up in the streets as the Board recognition is their only way to practising.

“We have been waiting for too long for the resolution of the matter and all the involved parties have not been giving satisfactory answers. We are about to complete our studies and our time here cannot go to waste,” one student said.

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