Limkokwing retrenches staff

About 80 staff members of Limkokwing University of Creative Technology (LUCT) will soon be unemployed after they were slapped with letters of retrenchment, writes Mmegi Staffer TEFO PHEAGE

Limkokwing brand custodian, Mercy Thebe has confirmed that the institution will retrench staff.

Thebe said: “This has been necessitated by a significant and sustained decline in student enrolment faced by the entire tertiary education sector in Botswana mainly due to the low number of sponsored students by the main client, Government, the recent graduation of students as well as the declining numbers of  leaving senior secondary school pupils, who fail to meet the selection criteria of higher education institutions to attract Department of Tertiary Education Funding (DTEF) funding”.

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