Welcome to SARDEC
Southern African Regional Distance Education Centre (SARDEC), is an Open and Distance Learning (ODL) centre of excellence in Southern Africa. The Centre’s main function is to build ODL capacity within the region at all levels; pre-tertiary or secondary school to tertiary level. SARDEC intends to assist the region to widen access to education provision through various projects and programe's prioritized in its action plan. The result is expected to be the accelerated facilitation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that all Southern African countries have committed to. SARDEC started operating from 1st June 2005 and already a number of projects have been lined up for the region. The Centre hopes to get maximum support from the regional institutions in terms of participating in all arranged activities and availing expertise on short term attachments / secondments to its office for identified projects and activities. The SARDEC offices are located in Botswana at Botswana College of Distance and Open Learning (BOCODOL) along Garamothose Road, plot number 39972/1. Botswana also hosts the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Secretariat.
For more information about SARDEC please contact the Coordinator at; tmogotsi@bocodol.ac.bw or tthutoetsile@bocodol.ac.bw Tel. +267 3181470 Fax. +267 3191089
