“Finally, the Department of Economics is hosting the Masters Bridge Programme Fellowship for students from around Africa on behalf of the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) beginning Monday, 21 May, to 29 June, 2018,” says Ms Nthabiseng Koatsa, the Head of the Department of Economics at the National University of Lesotho(NUL).
Students who are awarded the scholarship are from the Fragile and Post-Conflict States. The Anglophone NUL will host the ones from Burundi, Congo, Lesotho, Liberia, Sierra Leon, Somalia, South Sudan and Swaziland, while others will be hosted by the Francophone University of Burundi and Lusophone Eduardo Mondlane University in Mozambique.
This Bridge Programme will enable the students to undertake an intensive skill enhancement in Microeconomics, Macroeconomics and Quantitative Methods, which are prerequisite courses for the Masters Programme in Economics.
“The courses at NUL will be taught by highly qualified lecturers from our department who are satisfying international standard of postgraduate teaching as required by the AERC,” Ms Koatsa said.
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At the end of the programme, the students will congregate at the joint facility in Nairobi, Kenya, for extra two weeks, 04 - 12 July, 2018, with other participants from the Francophone and Lusophone Masters Bridge Programmes for final tuition, networking and sitting of the end of programme examinations.
“We really feel honoured as the department and the university to receive this recognition from our international partners,” she said. “We will therefore do our best when offering this programme as this will have a bearing on our future ability to administer postgraduate programmes and attract international students.”
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