TERTIARY EDUCATION
Students call for release of report on varsity fees
Among a long list of issues, students demand a zero increases, release of fees report and an inquiry into the ‘militarising’ of campuses
A nationwide student protest is bubbling as students at tertiary institutions grow restless about delays in the release of the fees commission report. The #FeesMustFall protests of 2015 and 2016, when students demanded free education, brought higher education to a standstill and examinations were postponed as a result. University of Cape Town (UCT) and Cape Peninsula University of Technology students marched to Parliament on Wednesday to demand the release of this report. Among a long list of issues, the protesters called for no fee increase, the immediate release of the commission report and an inquiry into how much had been spent on militarising campuses over the past two years. Earlier this week, UCT vice-chancellor Max Price called for the release of the report to enable the university to put budgetary plans in place for the 2018 academic year. While the students were demonstrating outside Parliament, Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba seemed not to have hit the right note, shifting...
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