He told the just ended Tertiary Education Council (TEC) fair in Gaborone that there are public concerns about the quality and relevance of the local tertiary education. He said critics assert that the graduates are poorly trained and some employers by-pass them in favour of foreigners. He added that those who join the labour force are said to come with very poor work ethic and low productivity.
"Indeed, some observers blame the growing phenomenon of graduate unemployment to the failure of the system to produce creative, innovative, and self-motivated self-employable workers," he said.The businessman said education has to deliver tangible and effective results because it does not come cheap. Magang said that up to 30 percent of government's recurrent budget is devoted to education and 60 percent of this allocation goes towards financing tertiary education alone and there has to be returns on the investment. He said the nation has a legitimate right to ask whether the graduates of the system justify the investment. "We as the nation therefore have a legitimate right to ask the question - has the graduate of this system of education justified the investment? For the expenditure must be justified by the results it yields," he said.
