Limkokwing University of Creative Technology (LUCT) is undergoing an exercise to reduce its staff compliment. “This has been necessitated by a significant and sustained decline in student enrolments faced by the entire tertiary education sector in Botswana mainly due to the low number of sponsored students by the main client being the Government, recent graduation of students as well as declining numbers of senior secondary school pupils who fail to meet the selection criteria of higher education institutions to attract DTEF funding,” said the University in a statement. “Since 2014, the University has enrolled a very low number of students to replace the number of students who were graduating. In 2013, the University had a total of 7,247 students and employed staff numbers consistent with the needs of such a student community. As of 2015, the University had a total of 3,800 students still having the same staff complement to service over 7000 students while in 2016 the university had only 3142 students still with the same staff complement,” said Limkokwing. Given this trend in 2017 the University, with reluctance had no choice but to reduce the number of staff, to remain viable and sustainable and below are a range…