Students at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) will be paying a further 8% towards their tuition and residence fees for the 2017 academic year. Fees will increase for all academic programmes in 2017 for local and international students. However, postgraduate programmes at the Wits School of Governance will increase 9.5%. The Wits council confirmed in a statement on Monday that the university would face a R191m deficit if there were a 0% increment for the 2017 year. The university said it was recently informed that the 0% fee increase in 2016 will be rolled into its government subsidy‚ meaning its 2017 subsidy increase will be less than expected. It would now get about R54m less than expected from the government in 2017. Shirona Patel of Wits Communications said the motivation for the increase came from, "the ICT projects for next year, the cost of insourcing and the R54m that the university didn’t get from the state in 2016." While the state has committed itself to paying th...
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