Free funding for students but certain graduates must pay later
MANY people say free tertiary education in South Africa is not possible‚ but researcher Sara Gon is not one of them.The research fellow at the South African Institute for Race Relations says the government has to come up with a model that will make sure the private and public sectors contribute to government coffers."Generally‚ from the reading and listening that I’ve done‚ a great set of government wasteful expenditure could go into funding the students. They can do it‚ but they just don’t know where the money will come from and where the immediate problems are‚" said Gon."Ideally what you are looking at is possibly free funding‚ but with a view to reclaiming that money in different ways. There would nothing wrong with graduates working and paying back at a certain level or higher‚ paying an ongoing tax to repay for education‚" she added.A study by PwC, a multinational professional services network‚ found that the cost of delivering university education in SA amounts to close to R5...
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