UB paying the price for complacency

The vice chancellor Professor Thabo Fako shared with his guests - from the Botswana Democratic Party, the Botswana Congress Party and the Umbrella for Democratic Party and its affiliates - the challenges that the institution of higher learning is facing.  The UB head singled out stiff competition from the new and upcoming universities, in particular, the Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST). Fako and his company are worried that ‘new baby’ is receiving a lot of ‘tender care’ from the government in the form of funding, that has triggered staff exodus to Palapye.   Well and good.  But perhaps UB should stop being crybabies and introspect.

Gone are the days when UB was the sole provider of tertiary education, when it was almost impossible to get admitted to the institution. Unfortunately, UB took for granted the arrival of other learning institutions - private and government-owned, and relaxed as if it was business as usual.