Student debt is growing quickly and, if something doesn’t change, it could jeopardise the country’s already struggling economy
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‘We must make sure that in 2018 all academically deserving students are admitted freely in SA universities and FET colleges’
How will the body deal with the president’s surprise announcement?
The president’s proposed policy for 2018 lacks the critical foresight to truly lay the groundwork to improve access to education
Employees say the university’s mooted salary increases won’t cover the escalating cost of living
The state is too heavily indebted to back the advances and the role of Sars is problematic
Heher says technical and vocational training colleges must become first-choice institutions
The Davis tax committee’s reports make it clear that neither free higher education for all nor
the NHI can be fully funded by the state
‘The manuscript you sent us (bar, perhaps, mention of a R99-billion surplus) brought us, and by extension our readers, no joy’
The imposition of the fee-free higher education proposal on National Treasury without due consideration represents an escalation of state capture
The EFF has rejected the Heher Commission’s report on the feasibility of fee-free education on the basis that it will create ‘class segregation’
USAf CEO Ahmed Bawa warned that the government’s implementation of the fees commission’s recommendations was more important than the report’s release.
The fees commission was established by the president in January 2016 and led by Judge Jonathan Heher, assisted by advocate Gregory Ally and Leah Khumalo.
Slashing spending and upping taxes may help plug the budget shortfall and pay for higher education