A drying up of financial aid and a hike in fees has left Fort Hare students desperate – and hungry.
Setas are meant to reverse the country’s skill’s crisis but they are not fulfilling their mandate.
The National Student Financial Aid Scheme can’t carry the burden alone, so the portfolio committee on higher education wants business to pitch in.
The country’s skills shortage is to be worsened by the increasing move to mathematics literacy.
Serious problems in system leave hundreds of thousands of eligible applicants empty-handed.
The budget allocated to the National Student Financial Aid Scheme shows government will be dealing with the funding problem for poor students soon.
Expelled and suspended members of the South African Democratic Teachers’ Union have resolved to form a trade union open to all public sector workers.
Higher education funding crisis set to stoke fires at campuses again in 2015.
Suspended teacher union members insist their removal ahead of key conferences is a ploy by a Cosatu faction.
Pressure is being put on failing matrics to forgo writing to massage the pass rate, say educators.