Currently Botswana has seven colleg

Currently Botswana has seven colleges of education. Three of these are primary colleges of educa-tion and the fourth college has recently being decommissioned due to poor infrastructure and teachingfacilities. There are also two secondary colleges of education, one college of arts and technology andone college of technical and vocational education. Adeyemi and Hopkin (1997) note that the primaryand secondary colleges of education are affiliated to the University of Botswana (UB) and offer pro-grammes which qualify teachers for the Diploma in either primary or secondary education There are,however, on-going plans to transform the colleges into the degree offering institutions. Presently, thecolleges provide courses on academic study and practice designed to facilitate the professional deve-lopment of primary and junior secondary school teachers. The function of UB is to provide adviceregarding programme improvement and ensuring quality outcomes. The Social Studies moderationreport (University of Botswana,
2008) captures the lecturers’ responsibility of
teaching and the supervi-sion of research projects, while UB undertakes the moderation of the programme as a whole as part of quality control and assurance measures (University of Botswana, 2008)