CONFERENCE RESOLUTION
AYABONGA CAWE: Proposals for free education unlikely to see light of day
Last week may have confirmed for university administrators, students, indebted parents and many in the private sector what they may have always suspected; there is no credible plan for free education. Once again, another conference resolution, or set of recommendations, seems set to be put in a folder and returned to the dusty pile until the next round of protests. Multiple dramas are unfolding. It seems a parallel free education plan is being hatched by President Jacob Zuma, which news reports suggest prompted Michael Sachs, the budget czar in the Treasury, to resign. The report came up with a mixed bag of suggestions, some progressive and some clearly out of touch with the economic and social reality of SA. The scrapping of registration fees is one of few progressive suggestions. The rest include the introduction of a two-tier financing system for education based on fully subsidised access to the Technical Vocational Education and Training sector and debt-based provisioning in the...
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