The 2018 tertiary education statistics released this week by the Human Resource Development Council (HRDC) in partnership with Statistics Botswana show that the number of students enrolled in tertiary institutions increase every year despite current high numbers of unemployed graduates. The happiness of attaining a qualification at tertiary education level has turned into a nightmare for many of university alumni in Botswana as the job market fails to absorb all of the graduates. Statistics Botswana recently released Labour Force Module report for Q3 2019 showing that the graduate joblessness rate stands at 9.6% in addition to 26% of youth unemployment rate. The 2018 figures released by the HRDC indicate that the number of graduates immensely increased from 6 431 in 2013 to 15 5594 in 2014 and declined slightly to 13 621 in year 2017. “The increase could have been necessitated by the Government’ initiative to upgrade primary and junior secondary school teachers from the level 5 (diploma) to level 6 (degree). As a result, there was an increase in graduates for number Bachelors’ degree programmes more especially around fields of Education, Sciences and Humanities and Arts degrees,” reads the 2018 report. In addition, the Social Sciences, Business and Law…