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Financing higher education in Botswana

✍ Scribed by G. M. G. Mokgwathi

Publisher: Springer
Year: 1992
Tongue: English
Weight: 460 KB
Volume: 23
Category: Article
ISSN: 0018-1560
DOI: 10.1007/bf00138628

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✦ Synopsis

The paper describes the current system of tmiversity finance in Botswana, and considers alternative options, including the introduction of student loans. A student loan scheme was first recommended in Botswana in 1966, but has never been implemented. At present all students at the University of Botswana receive bursaries, and in return undertake to work in Botswana after graduation and to pay 5% of their annual gross salary for five years as a form of "reimbursement". The author concludes that in effect this represents a combined grant and loan. A Presidential Commission in 1990 recommended that the present Bursary system be reorganized into a grant/loan system, and the Government of Botswana accepts this in principle although the modalities of such a scheme are yet to be finalized.

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