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July 25, 2019

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BU students benefit from exchange programme

BU students benefit from exchange programme

Botho University

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MASERU – Both the Botho University (BU) and the University of Venda (Univen) have entrenched a vibrant relationship and collaboration that commenced in 2014 between various faculties/schools and departments at both institutions.

One of the many aspects of the agreement between Botho University and University of Venda is to facilitate student exchange programme between Faculty of Computing at Botho University and School of Mathematics and Natural Science Students at University of Venda. Under the student exchange programme, both institutions send their students to each other’s campuses to study for a period of six months.

Botho University holds students exchange programme as an important aspect in overall development of its students. Students exchange programme is important and valuable for participating students as it pulls them out of their comfort zone and forces them to adapt to different culture and challenges. It develops one’s character to become more resilient and confident.

Students on the exchange programme become more secure in the knowledge that they can live anywhere in the world, make friends with anyone, be welcomed and loved anywhere, and feel at home with anyone. This is a broadening of one’s mindset which results in a more mature personality at the end of the programme. All this is essential for Botho University to achieve its Vision, Mission and its Quality Policy which is stated as “Botho University will produce well-rounded, entrepreneurial, and globally-employable graduates with the attitude, knowledge, skills and competencies to create value and drive productivity increases needed to catalyse sustainable economic growth.

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The University is committed to long-term stakeholder satisfaction through continuous quality improvement, financial viability, and a culture of integrity, excellence and inclusiveness in all its activities including its leadership, teaching, research, consulting, and community services.” As a result of this collaboration and in a bid to position its graduates for the global market, Botho University-Maseru Campus saw five students in semester five from the faculty of computing leave for the University of Venda to study for a semester beginning July to November 2019. The students were selected based on the highest CGPA (Cumulative Grade Point Average) ranking. This is the first batch of students from Maseru Campus to benefit from this relationship and they are; Mosito Mosenane, Ts’itso Sephapho, Lemmy Mwanza, Pelesa Mokete and Motloang Mothebesoane.

These students will join four other students from BU Gaborone campus. The Gaborone campus has been sending its students to the University of Venda for the past five years bringing the total number of BU students who benefited from the collaboration between the two universities to nine. Accompanying the students to University of Venda is Ms Moipone Lebesa and Mr Keorapetse Setlhare, officers from the Student Affairs and Alumni Department from Maseru and Gaborone campus respectively.

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