BCM Throws Students Under The Bus

Charles Siwawa
Charles Siwawa

FRANCISTOWN: More than 100 students who were sponsored by the Botswana Chamber of Mines (BCM) at the Francistown College of Technical and Vocational Education (FCTVE) face a bleak future after their contracts were terminated because of lack of funds.

The students were sponsored by BCM for apprenticeship training tenable at FCTVE on June 20, 2016.

From the start, the students’ contractual relationship with BCM was fraught with problems.  According to letters of admission passed to The Monitor, the students were interviewed for apprenticeship training programme in April 2015 but only commenced training more than a year later in June 20, 2016.

Editor's Comment
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