She is currently providing strategic and academic leadership, with a focus on strengthening research, enhancing programme quality, and fostering institutional partnerships. In addition to her academic responsibilities, she has undertaken commissioned research and provided professional consultancy services to the Government of Lesotho and various international organisations.
Professor Thetsane’s research interests lie in strategic and general management, marketing management, entrepreneurship and innovation management, higher education management, and human capital development.

Her work places particular emphasis on the strategic and operational dynamics of emerging and regulated industries, including the medicinal cannabis sector.

She has published extensively in accredited, peer-reviewed journals, contributed chapters to scholarly books, and authored policy papers for the United Nations. She has also supervised and mentored postgraduate students, contributing to academic capacity development in the region.

Beyond her scholarly work, Professor Thetsane is actively engaged in academic and professional service. She is a member of the Southern African Institute of Management Scientists (SAIMS) and serves as the Lesotho Regional Nominator for the PhD Hub at North-West University Business School, where she mentors doctoral candidates. She has presented her research at national and international conferences, served as a reviewer for academic journals, and contributed to programme evaluations for the Council on Higher Education (CHE) in Lesotho.

Overview of the Office of the Pro-Vice-Chancellor

The Pro-Vice-Chancellor is University’s Academic Head who reports to the Vice-Chancellor and assumes the Vice-Chancellor’s responsibilities in his absence. The Office of the Pro-Vice-Chancellor is charged with helping University achieve excellence across all areas of the academic enterprise through oversight of undergraduate teaching and learning; graduate mentoring; faculty development, and the development of innovative academic initiatives. The office is responsible for the administration, coordination, and development of general policies and functions applicable to all academic programmes.

Other responsibilities of the office include: overseeing the development of academic strategic plans across academic units; ensuring continuing professional development of the academic teaching and research staff through professional development opportunities both on and off campus as well as designing strategies and mechanisms to create a research culture, providing strategic direction to institutional research initiatives.

Services

The services rendered by the Pro-Vice-Chancellor’s office include chairing various academic and institutional committees as well as selection panels. The committees for which the Pro-Vice-Chancellor’s office provides chairmanship include the Academic Planning Committee, Space Allocation and Vacation Courses Committee, Library Board, Computer Steering Committee, Academic Planning Committee, Localization and Training Board, Sabbatical and Study Leave Committee, Monitoring and Evaluation Committee, Bookshop Committee, and Research and Conferences Committee.

Staff

Ms. Likeleko Mvelase — Pro-Vice-Chancellor’s Secretary

Tel: +266 22340601 / 52213000 Ext: 3338

Direct: +266 22340319 / 52217201

Mrs. ‘Mamakhetha Moranye — Senior Assistant Registrar (Pro-Vice-Chancellor)

Contacts:

Prof. Regina Thetsane

Pro-Vice-Chancellor

P.O. Roma, 180.

Lesotho.

Tel: +266 22340601 Ext: 7205

Direct: +266 22340319

Fax: +266 22340702

E-mail: pvc@nul.ls