About Us

The Tertiary Education Council was established by an Act of Paliarment as a parastatal (autonomous body) in 1999. However, the Council began its work with the appointment of the Council Members in June 2002 and the employment of the Dr Patrick Molutsi as its first Execitive Secretary on the 1st of October 2003.

It is governed by a 14 (fourteen) member Tertiary Education Council. The TEC is a regulatory body to coordinate and promote tertiary education in Botswana. Click here to see the TEC Council members.

The TEC Secretariat is organised around 5 (five) directorates namely the Office of the Executive Secretary, the Directorates of Budgeting and Funding, Corporate Services, Policy Planning and Research as well as Quality Assurance and Regulation.  Click here to see the TEC directorates.