Fund delays interrupt teaching practice

Over 300 students at Molepolole College of Education (MCE) are in limbo, as a result of delays in processing of their teaching practice allowances.

The prospective teachers were supposed to have commenced the exercise last Thursday, but late submission of their documents at the Department of Tertiary Education Finance (DTEF) has interrupted their schedule.

A third-year student majoring in English, Thapelo Malepe said this is a great inconvenience, as the delay would eat out of their teaching practice time.

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