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25th May 2021
Things donât look pretty for engineering students at the Gaborone University College of Law (abbreviated as âGUCâ) who are being cold-shouldered by the Engineers Registration Board (ERB). While the Botswana Qualifications Authority (BQA) has accredited the programme, the ERB has declined to register GUC-graduated engineers because the programme doesnât meet its necessarily stringent standards. The students are understandably panicked but nothing suggests that ERB will relax its standards in order to accommodate GUC graduates.
It is yet unclear how this particular case will end but the university has been down this road before.
Once before, BQA has approved an LLB programme that GUC planned to offer in the not-too-distant future. The problem though was that the programme was not on a list of universities that are recognised by the Legal Practitioners Act. In terms of Section 4 of the Act, Botswana citizens shall be qualified to practise as legal pr
LSB CHAIR: Tshekiso
The Law Society of Botswana has issued a warning against the practice of appointing fresh graduates to the magistracy saying it is detrimental to the quality of Administration of Justice and the careers of the appointees.
LSB Chairman, Tshekiso Tshekiso expressed the concern at the official opening of the Legal Year. “We think the appointment of Magistrates from graduates who are coming out of University does not always turn out best as most are young and without sufficient experience to be given such immense responsibility and power. The exuberance of youth may also sometimes unfortunately lead wayward, rushed, and unsympathetic conduct against litigants and legal professionals,” he said.