Nationalise higher education, says ANC Youth League
‘Institutional autonomy is the first barrier to fee-free education as it places value on the basis of prestige in qualifications’
ANC Youth League secretary-general Njabulo Nzuza called for the nationalisation of higher education at the fees commission on Wednesday in Pretoria. Nzuza said the government needed to take control of the management and administration of all higher education institutions to standardise education and to lower the costs of prestigious universities. Institutional autonomy further entrenched the legacy of apartheid, he said, as those who could afford it were able to access the best universities while those who could not had to make do with inferior education. "Institutional autonomy is the first barrier to fee-free education as it places value on the basis of prestige in qualifications," said Nzuza. There are 969,154 students registered at the 26 public universities across the country. The league said that assuming that 70% of these students could not afford fees, R38.2bn would be required to fund free education. SA could fund free tertiary education by increasing corporate income tax, ...
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