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The Ministry of Education and Skills Development is a government ministry of Botswana. Its offices are in Gaborone. [1] The Ministry of Tertiary Education, Research Science and Technology exists to provide and build knowledge and innovation through the development and implementation of policy on Tertiary Education, Research, Science and Technology to transform Botswana in to a knowledge based society through effective stakeholder collaboration [2]
The Ministry was established in October 2016.
College of Education:
Technical Colleges:
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