Botswana turns to Zim for vocational reform

For quite some time now, the facilities have been white elephants as a number of programmes have been without lecturers or trainers. In total, 82 positions have been vacant in the areas of performing arts, jewellery design, multimedia design, electronics, wastewater engineering and heavy plant air conditioning, among others.

The new Oodi College of Applied Arts Technology is leading the pack with 14 empty positions, followed by the Botswana College of Engineering and Technology with 10. Overall electronics has an acute shortage of 11 trainers countrywide.It is against this background that the Ministry of Education and Skills Development (MoESD) and Zimbabwe's Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education entered into an agreement to second Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) for a term of two to three years.