Diploma in Culinary Arts

BOSWA Culinary Institute of Botswana · Maun

About this programme

BOSWA's flagship, government-financed (DTEF) culinary diploma - a broad professional-cookery programme spanning classical and contemporary cuisine, kitchen management, food safety and supervised industry placement. It is the institute's principal pathway for sponsored students; a BOSWA-trained student won an award at the International Young Chef Olympiad.

Entry requirement

Entry requirement: at least 18 points.

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Programme facts

Qualification	Diploma
Institution	BOSWA Culinary Institute of Botswana
Faculty / school	Culinary Arts
Duration	2 years
Location	Maun
Minimum points	18
Accreditation	BQA Accredited
Funding / sponsorship	Department of Tertiary Education Financing (DTEF) - registered, fundable programme
Demand outlook	HRDC forecasts about 1,446 openings a year in TOURISM & HOSPITALITY (2025). 5,248 graduates in this field were recorded unemployed at 2024Q1, which at that rate is about 3.6 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: 0.59. ISCED "Services" is broader than tourism and hospitality alone, so this ratio is indicative only. 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

Chef de Partie Sous Chef Restaurant Chef Lodge and Camp Chef Trainee Catering Manager Banqueting Chef Private Chef Food and Beverage Supervisor Assistant Culinary Instructor Kitchen Manager

Source

Published by https://www.cthawards.com/cth-approved-teaching-centre/botswana-maun-boswa-culinary-institute-of-botswana/.

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