There is a growing global interest in matters of recruitment and staff retention in higher educat... more There is a growing global interest in matters of recruitment and staff retention in higher education institutions and Botswana is no exemption. Invariably, all tertiary institutions are confronted with the tremendous challenge of identifying, recruiting and retaining high caliber staff, particularly lecturers. These trends have engendered a more strategic approach to human resource management across the higher education sector. Staff recruitment is centralised at Gaborone Head Office for BA ISAGO University College and is mainly done through advertisement. Statistical Package for Social Scientist (SPSS) was used in the analysis of data and the stratified random sampling technique was employed. Use was made of measures of central tendency, dispersion, ttests and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). At least 70% of the academic staff was less than 2 years of employment and 40% got their offer letters within a period of less than one week. 60% consider recruitment methods to be at least good ...
To ensure quality teaching, teachers require continuous professional teacher development (CPTD) o... more To ensure quality teaching, teachers require continuous professional teacher development (CPTD) opportunities. In South Africa, CPTD faces many challenges however, including most notably budget constraints. Because they have been found to be cost-effective, Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) could constitute a promising way forward in the country. In a PLC, classroom teachers, school managers and/or subject advisors come together to collectively determine their CPTD needs and to set up activities that can help them meeting those needs. Hence, PLCs are needs-based driven and stimulate collaborative learning – characteristics of effective CPTD. In 2017-2018, the South African Department of Basic Education initiated 12 inter-school pilot PLCs among teachers of grade 1 to 6 in the provinces of Free State, North West and the Northern Cape. In this paper, we examine participating teachers’ perceptions of the effectiveness of these PLCs, drawing on focus group discussions and chat bo...
This book critically reviews accessibility of funding by Small to Medium Enterprises as a means t... more This book critically reviews accessibility of funding by Small to Medium Enterprises as a means to the enhanced sustainability of SME development in Botswana. Lack of access to adequate funding is cited as a global impediment to SME growth and development. Research output that reviews the SME funding challenge in a comprehensive fashion with a view to providing a magic potion for the enhancement of SME growth & development is also scant. This book contributes to the bridging of this knowledge gap. Traditional methods of funding SMEs are herein critically reviewed and emerging funding models as a possible panacea to SME access to finance are also discussed while a hypothetical Whole Entrepreneurial Package Model (WEP) is finally proposed.
There is a growing global interest in matters of recruitment and staff retention in higher educat... more There is a growing global interest in matters of recruitment and staff retention in higher education institutions and Botswana is no exemption. Invariably, all tertiary institutions are confronted with the tremendous challenge of identifying, recruiting and retaining high caliber staff, particularly lecturers. These trends have engendered a more strategic approach to human resource management across the higher education sector. Staff recruitment is centralised at Gaborone Head Office for BA ISAGO University College and is mainly done through advertisement. Statistical Package for Social Scientist (SPSS) was used in the analysis of data and the stratified random sampling technique was employed. Use was made of measures of central tendency, dispersion, ttests and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). At least 70% of the academic staff was less than 2 years of employment and 40% got their offer letters within a period of less than one week. 60% consider recruitment methods to be at least good ...
To ensure quality teaching, teachers require continuous professional teacher development (CPTD) o... more To ensure quality teaching, teachers require continuous professional teacher development (CPTD) opportunities. In South Africa, CPTD faces many challenges however, including most notably budget constraints. Because they have been found to be cost-effective, Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) could constitute a promising way forward in the country. In a PLC, classroom teachers, school managers and/or subject advisors come together to collectively determine their CPTD needs and to set up activities that can help them meeting those needs. Hence, PLCs are needs-based driven and stimulate collaborative learning – characteristics of effective CPTD. In 2017-2018, the South African Department of Basic Education initiated 12 inter-school pilot PLCs among teachers of grade 1 to 6 in the provinces of Free State, North West and the Northern Cape. In this paper, we examine participating teachers’ perceptions of the effectiveness of these PLCs, drawing on focus group discussions and chat bo...
This book critically reviews accessibility of funding by Small to Medium Enterprises as a means t... more This book critically reviews accessibility of funding by Small to Medium Enterprises as a means to the enhanced sustainability of SME development in Botswana. Lack of access to adequate funding is cited as a global impediment to SME growth and development. Research output that reviews the SME funding challenge in a comprehensive fashion with a view to providing a magic potion for the enhancement of SME growth & development is also scant. This book contributes to the bridging of this knowledge gap. Traditional methods of funding SMEs are herein critically reviewed and emerging funding models as a possible panacea to SME access to finance are also discussed while a hypothetical Whole Entrepreneurial Package Model (WEP) is finally proposed.
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