Increasing VAT to 20% on all items except basic foods‚ a 10% reduction in government employees’ salaries and diverting “fruitless and wasteful expenditure” by government departments to the Department of Higher Education could assist in funding free education for tertiary students. These are some of the suggestions made by Facebook[…]
South Africa is a victim of its own success with many having forgotten the ANC’s progress towards providing free education, said party secretary general Gwede Mantashe on Tuesday. He said there were around 150 000 black students at universities across the country in 1994. Today there were just over 800[…]
Although thousands of students agree with the study fee protests, they do not want to sacrifice their own qualifications for the cause, Wits University vice-chancellor Adam Habib said on Monday. He said he had received an enormous amount of letters saying this is just not fair. Students say they need to[…]
Universities have nothing to fear if Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande announces no fee increases for next year, Sasco said on Thursday. “They don’t have to be scared. Students say they don’t want to pay for education. Give them free education and everything will be okay,” SA Students’ Congress leader[…]
The President of South Africa, in the Government Gazette of 22 January 2016, established a Commission of Inquiry into Higher Education and Training to determine if free education would be feasible for the South African economy. The Commission is inviting all stakeholders in the higher-education and training sectors, including; students,[…]
Making tertiary education free would reduce the quality of education and graduates, Allan Gray Orbis Foundation CEO, Anthony Farr, said on Tuesday. “Ultimately if fees are free it has an impact of reducing the quantity that we need and ultimately, I would argue, it would reduce the quality,” he said.[…]
Less than 10% of South African’s youth are afforded the opportunity to complete a three-year degree at a tertiary institution, in part to the fact that tuition fees are beyond their financial means and because many do not meet the requirements for student funding from the National Student Financial Aid[…]
Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande withheld for three years a report that found free university education was viable, the Mail & Guardian reported on Friday. Nzimande received the study in December 2012 from a working group he appointed in 2010. The group, chaired by Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University vice-chancellor Derrick[…]
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