The Botswana Qualifications Authority (BQA) will soon impose fees on some of the services they offer to education and training providers (ETPs) as part of new reforms in education and training. “BQA has gazetted schedule of fees for some of its services. Stakeholders were consulted during the drafting of the fees and it is worth noting that these have been benchmarked and that services are offered on a cost sharing basis,” said BQA Chief Executive Officer Abel Modungwa. Speaking during a press briefing to sensitise the media on the new BQA regulations and discuss the transition guide on Tuesday in Gaborone, Modungwa said though BQA had prior to adopting the scheduled fees benchmarked in several countries in Africa and overseas, BQA fees are highly subsidised compared to other regulatory bodies in the region that coordinate a National Qualifications framework based education and training system. BQA Business Development Director, Dr Andrew Molwane, shared the CEO’sentiments that while the current charges maybe a migration from what the authority use to charge, the amount required was in fact affordable and will not bring any convenience to the ETPs. According to Molwane, BQA has conducted and results have shown that most ETPs will be…