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Certificate in Early Childhood Education
Bosa Bosele Training College · Gaborone
About this programme
A twelve-month certificate preparing qualified early-childhood educators to assess and guide child development, promote health and nutrition, and manage a childcare setting in partnership with families. Bosa Bosele publishes no per-programme BGCSE cut-off; the points shown are ACRON's standard level-based guide, not a college figure.
Entry requirement
Entry requirement: at least 12 points.
Programme facts
| Qualification | Certificate (NCQF Level 5) |
| Institution | Bosa Bosele Training College |
| Faculty / school | School of Education |
| Duration | 1 year |
| Location | Gaborone |
| Minimum points | 12 |
| Accreditation | BQA Accredited |
| Funding / sponsorship | Department of Tertiary Education Financing (DTEF) - Government of Botswana student financing |
| Demand outlook | HRDC forecasts about 334 openings a year in EDUCATION & TRAINING (2025). 5,980 graduates in this field were recorded unemployed at 2024Q1, which at that rate is about 17.9 years of hiring to absorb the people already waiting — ACRON’s calculation from two HRDC figures, not an HRDC finding, and it counts only the existing pool. Graduates per opening: 8.32. About eight graduates a year for every forecast opening. These openings are a forecast of need, not posts that are currently being filled. In July 2026 the Directorate of Public Service Management told Parliament's Public Accounts Committee that government "currently do not have the financial capacity to create new vacancies", and that more than 8,000 students now graduate each year while the economy is no longer creating jobs at the same pace. Government policy reserves 80% of entry-level vacancies for new graduates and is achieving about 70%. (Directorate of Public Service Management, evidence to the 62nd sitting of the Public Accounts Committee, reported by Mmegi (July 2026).) This describes the whole field, not this programme alone, and it is not a government waiting list — Botswana publishes no such figure. Source: HRDC Priority Skills Report, March 2025, Table 31 p.41 and Appendix 3 pp.66-76; HRDC Tertiary Education Statistics Report 2024, Table 22. |
Careers this programme leads to
Preschool Teacher Childcare Assistant Day-Care Worker Nursery Aide Early Childhood Assistant Childminder Creche Supervisor Playgroup Leader Childcare Practitioner Foundation-Phase Aide
Source
Published by https://www.bosabosele.ac.bw/cece.html.
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