UB, Colleges of Education withhold students� results

BCET heavy plant class of 2006
BCET heavy plant class of 2006

The future of colleges of education and University of Botswana (UB) graduates is in limbo after the lecturers decided to withhold the final examination results.

The Trainers and Allied Workers Union (TAWU) also joined the fray and instructed its members and other lecturers not to participate in any processes of the colleges of education external examinations of 2014.

In a letter dated May 2, 2014 to the acting director of Department of Training and Development (DTD), Chabaesele Oaitse, TAWU secretary general Frizon Moyo notified that the failure to resolve the impasse on May 5, has left them with no option but to escalate the matter. Moyo stated that they have been inundated with reports of intimidation, threats and harassment from the colleges of education lecturers to which they call upon the director’s office to immediately intervene.

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