STAFF WRITER OTHUSITSE TLHOBOGANG takes a closer look at the issues bedevilling the courses accreditation crisis at tertiary education level. Botswana’s education system is reeling from a wave of protests from tertiary students who are unhappy at suddenly realising that some of the courses they are doing are not accredited. Students that are supposed to apply for tertiary placement are also at odds about which school to apply to lest they fall prey to doing programmes that are not accredited. Some of the institutions that have been severely affected include Botho University, University of Botswana and Baisago University. All this seems to have resulted because of the new Botswana Qualification Authority regulations which came into effect in January 2017. Prior to this regulation the BQA was using the 2008 Tertiary education Council regulations. The 2008 regulations allowed for the approval of the programme first, in a Pilot System that allowed for a later review to confirm its appropriateness. Normally the process would take about 12 months for the programme to be accredited in these old regulations. After this period then it is either the programme is given a full accreditation, provisional accreditation, deferred or it is rejected. The full accreditation…