No allowances for BCA lecturers

Students demostrating at BCA
Students demostrating at BCA

Lecturers at the Botswana University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (previously Botswana College of Agriculture) will not be paid allowances the governing council had effected in April 2015.

Last April, the governing council of the then BCA resolved to increase allowances of the academic staff at the college by 35 percent so that they would be at par with those at the University of Botswana.  However, the academic staff are yet to receive their payment.

The unpaid allowances have been at the centre of a standoff between the university governing council and the academic staff since it was announced last year, forcing the latter to delay releasing end of year semester results last December.

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