THIS EXCITING new institution is currently under construction on a 2 500-hectare site in the rolling hills of Palapye some 270 km north of Gaborone. The express intention is to establish a state-of-the-art centre of excellence that is committed to to serve as a catalyst for economic transformation and that attracts some of the world's brightest young minds.

The doors of the Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST) will accept its first cohort of students in March 2011. Its main aim will be to produce well-rounded graduates fully equipped with work, interpersonal, management and entrepreneurial skills. To achieve this, BIUST will include in all science, engineering and technology curricula business management components for both undergraduate and graduate students. The emphasis will fall heavily on research in a wide range of anticipated academic programmes.

[information courtesy of SARUA]