{"id":238403,"date":"2026-07-10T06:41:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T04:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-govt-announces-top-achievers-sponsorship-changes\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T06:41:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T04:41:04","slug":"botswana-govt-announces-top-achievers-sponsorship-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-govt-announces-top-achievers-sponsorship-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Govt Announces Top Achievers Sponsorship Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Gaborone \u2014 Government has announced major changes to the Top Achievers Sponsorship Programme. From the 2026\/2027 financial year, government will sponsor qualifying beneficiaries for undergraduate studies only.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Minister of Higher Education, Mr Prince Maele, revealed this during the opening of the in 2026\/2027 Gaborone on July 6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">&#8220;Sponsorship under the Top Achievers Programme will no longer extend to Master&#8217;s and Doctoral (PhD) studies as part of measures to ensure the programme remains&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607080061.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaborone \u2014 Government has announced major changes to the Top Achievers Sponsorship Programme. From the 2026\/2027 financial year, government will sponsor qualifying beneficiaries for undergraduate studies only. Minister of Higher Education, Mr Prince Maele, revealed this during the opening of the in 2026\/2027 Gaborone on July 6. &#8220;Sponsorship under the Top Achievers Programme will no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[36874,258,256,4334,4718,2462,4357,257,254,12665,7319],"class_list":["post-238403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-achievers","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-announces","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-govt","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sponsorship","tag-top"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}