UCT reveals plan for completing academic year

[schumi]

All undergraduate face-to-face classes at the University of Cape Town are to be suspended for the remainder of the 2016 as part of a plan by UCT to enable the academic year to be completed successfully.

UCT Vice-Chancellor Dr Max Price revealed details of the plan on Saturday‚ adding that the university will resume academic activities on Monday.

Price said that in the spirit of its commitment to engaging with the legitimate demands of staff and students‚ extensive effort has gone into an attempt to find an agreement with protesting students‚ in the hope of securing an assurance from them not to disrupt operations any further.

This had included negotiations facilitated by an independent professional mediator. Sadly‚ however‚ such an agreement was not yet in place.

Regrettably‚ this left the university in a position where a decision must be made without the agreement in place‚ Price said.

He added that UCT was now reaching the “point of no return” in terms of saving the academic year‚ which added to the urgency of the university’s current decision.

More at: http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/2016/10/15/UCT-reveals-plan-for-completing-academic-year

 

[ponder]

Price said that in the spirit of its commitment to engaging with the legitimate demands of staff and students‚ extensive effort has gone into an attempt to find an agreement with protesting students‚ in the hope of securing an assurance from them not to disrupt operations any further.

Idiot, not going to happen. You can give them what they want but they'll just move the goalposts and carry on with new demands and rioting.

 

[3WA]

So are the lectures streamed? What about those without broadband?

 

[CeeBee]

what about exams? these retards will still want to disrupt.
time to get serious and arrest anybody acting like a hooligan on rampage, and cut their student membership
if you are not at university to study, then u should not be anywhere near it.
if they give in to criminals and terrorists, it will never end, next will be something else to protest and break down over.
let them to protest and rampage at the ANC offices... that's where the idiotic promise of free education comes from

 

[SweetFennyAdams]

These thugs are ANARCHISTS intent on spreading mayhem and riotous behaviour without any legitimate reasons.
Treat them accordingly by taking a zero tolerance approach and jail them if need be.
The rights of non-protesting students and paying students trumps those of ANARCHISTS intent on denying them that right.