Free higher education for ‘poor and working class’ youth – Presidency
Poor and working class students will be funded and supported through government grants not loans.
Poor and working class students will be funded and supported through government grants not loans.
Government will increase subsidies to universities from 0.68 percent to one percent of GDP over the next five years as recommended by the Heher Commission of Inquiry into higher education and training, and in line with comparable economies to address the overall gross underfunding of the sector, the presidency said on Saturday.
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This would be done to “kick-start a skills revolution towards and in pursuit of the radical socio-economic transformation programme as outlined during the 2017 state-of-the-nation address, the presidency said in a statement.
The provision of fully subsidised free education and training would be extended to all current and future “poor and working class” South African students at all public technical vocational education and training (TVET) colleges starting in 2018 and phased-in over a period of five years, the statement said.
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