BHRDS heads north
Staff Writer | Monday January 30, 2017 14:49
This was revealed by the Human Resource Development Council (HRDC) chief executive officer, Raphael Dingalo at a media briefing last week.
“This year marks the eighth BHRD Skills Fair and Career Clinics. Interestingly this year, the event will be held in Francistown, Northern Botswana and Gaborone, Southern Botswana. The BHRDS will be preceded by the Career Clinics in both Francistown and Gaborone,” he said.
Dingalo said the Francistown event will be held from February 7 to March 2 at the Business Botswana Northern Trade Fair Grounds. The Gaborone event will be held from March 20-26 at Fairground Holdings, Gaborone. The theme for the two events is, ‘Guidance for Human Resource Development; Gateway Towards Realising Your Potential and Shaping Your Future’.
The BHRD Skills Fair and Career Clinics is a stakeholder engagement activity geared towards promoting the education and training sector while reflecting on strategic issues within the education sector.
“This noble event brings together various stakeholders among them the Human Resource Development (HRD) Sector Committees, the Botswana Qualifications Authority (BQA), the Botswana Examinations Council, the Department of Tertiary Education Financing (DTEF) registered education and training institutions, Government departments and other key stakeholders,” he said.
Dingalo said the two events have as their central goal to create maximum awareness as well educating the stakeholders and the public on how the Fair and the Career Clinics contribute towards the growth of the education and training sector in Botswana.
The key role of the HRDC is to turn around Botswana’s education and training system from a supply-led into a demand driven system.
The BHRDS was first introduced by the then Tertiary Education Council (TEC) and its partners in March 2010 as an annual event dubbed the Botswana Tertiary Education Fair and later on the Botswana Tertiary Education Conference and Career Guidance Clinics were additionally introduced.
Dingalo said he was proud and can confidently attest that these events have radically transformed the education and training landscape in Botswana.