Education Ministry tightens sponsorship

The Ministry of Education and Skills Development is embarking on various reforms to ensure the prudent use of post secondary sponsorship budget from the financial year 2010/2011 and beyond.

The acting permanent secretary in the ministry, Baeti Molake says the reforms have been necessitated by the declining government revenue caused by the current adverse economic down turn. He explains that the reforms therefore focus on expanding opportunities for all Batswana who desire to use education and training as a tool for self-employment, poverty alleviation and personal growth.

On the ministry website, Molake said the reforms will include cost sharing, adjustments on living allowances, financial assessment of students and their parents, reduction of numbers to be sponsored abroad, selective choice of programmes and institutions of study for students and optimising spaces available at the local technical and vocational colleges.

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