UCT students to protest over fees

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Cape Town - UCT students are to protest for an end to “exclusionary” fee increases at the university, following last week’s campaign at Wits.

On Monday students are to protest for an end to “exclusionary” fee increases at UCT.

Rhodes Must Fall (RMF) – the movement which effectively sparked the removal of Cecil John Rhodes’s statue from UCT –

says it will lead Monday’s protest.

The scheduled protest follows a campaign at Wits University, where students shut down the entire campus last week, demanding that a tuition fees hike for 2016 be suspended.

Students had taken issue with a proposal by the Wits council to increase fees by 10.5 percent and blockaded the university entrance, effectively cancelling all lectures.

Wits vice chancellor Adam Habib was forced to leave the Higher Education Summit in Durban to attend to the students’ demands on Friday.

It costs about R43 500 a year to study for a Bachelor of Arts degree at UCT, about R10 000 more than the same course at Stellenbosch University (SU).

UCT also charges about R50 000 for the first year of a Bachelor of Commerce degree, while students at SU pay R33 164, almost R17 000 less.



A decision by UCT last month to increase its tuition fees next year by 10.3 percent has now raised the ire of RMF.

“Typical of anti-black institutions, our call for decolonisation and making universities accessible to the black child has been met with a completely opposite response, further subjugating black people in endless cycles of poverty and inequality – a 10.5 percent fee increase,” RMF representative Thuli Gamedze said.
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I studied in the UK. Universities charges x amount of fees, government pays full fees for underprivileged students who's parents can't afford it.

Stop voting ANC and vote for someone who will use the countries money to raise the people, not line their own pockets.
 
UCT protesters disrupt traffic and classes

Cape Town - Small groups of students at the University of Cape Town disrupted traffic on the M3 and classes at the university on Monday.

Students blocked entrances to the university’s three campuses, to protest increased fees and the university management’s taking action on behalf of students.

A similar protest was also planned for Stellenbosch University on Monday morning.

At UCT a student on a motorcycle was pushed over at the middle campus entrance on Woolsack Drive and parents were forced to drop off their children on the side of the M3 as cars trying to enter the Upper Campus were prevented from entering the university’s grounds.

According to a pamphlet distributed by the protesters, believed to be of the South African Students Congress, the blockades were part of a Sasco drive for free education. Repeated attempts to reach Sasco organisers failed on Monday morning.

However, according to the pamphlet, the protesters were demanding an “emergency” meeting with the university’s management to work out what it should cost working class students to attend UCT.

“The management of UCT has repeatedly used a pretend concern for the fees of black working class students to justify its refusal to pay its workers a living wage,” the pamphlet continued.

“Yet, at the same time, the poorest UCT student (sic) has to pay out of their own pocket to attend university,” it said.
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We're trying to shield poor from increases - UCT

Thomas Hartleb, News24

Cape Town – The University of Cape Town is trying to protect its poorer students from fee increases, the institution said on Monday.

The families of its largest group of students had no income, and would get financial aid of up to R100 000 while only paying about R1 250 themselves, acting Vice Chancellor Francis Petersen said in a statement.

This covered tuition, accommodation, food, and books.

UCT students began blocking entrances to the institution on Monday morning, in protest against a planned 10.3% increase. Petersen urged protesters to respect the rights of those who wanted to continue studying.

The Students’ Representative Council participated in the budgetary analysis and understood the need for an 11% increase. It supported a compromise proposal of 10.3%, which council accepted at its September meeting, Petersen said.

For the last few years, UCT’s block grant from government had increased by about 3% annually.

Average costs, largely due to inflation, including salary increases, had increased by 7% to 8%.

The institution raised about R200m to R300m from corporates, alumni and foundations. Together with the National Student Financial Aid Scheme it generated about R500m annually to help poor students.

It offered financial help from the NSFAS and gap funding for those who did not qualify for the scheme.

Petersen said they were fortunate that most of their students could afford the fees, and so the government subsidy that would have been allocated to them went to the poorer students.

News24
Source
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Were-trying-to-shield-poor-from-increases-UCT-20151019
 
schumi said:
Thomas Hartleb, News24

Cape Town – The University of Cape Town is trying to protect its poorer students from fee increases, the institution said on Monday.

The families of its largest group of students had no income, and would get financial aid of up to R100 000 while only paying about R1 250 themselves, acting Vice Chancellor Francis Petersen said in a statement.

This covered tuition, accommodation, food, and books.

UCT students began blocking entrances to the institution on Monday morning, in protest against a planned 10.3% increase. Petersen urged protesters to respect the rights of those who wanted to continue studying.

The Students’ Representative Council participated in the budgetary analysis and understood the need for an 11% increase. It supported a compromise proposal of 10.3%, which council accepted at its September meeting, Petersen said.

For the last few years, UCT’s block grant from government had increased by about 3% annually.

Average costs, largely due to inflation, including salary increases, had increased by 7% to 8%.

The institution raised about R200m to R300m from corporates, alumni and foundations. Together with the National Student Financial Aid Scheme it generated about R500m annually to help poor students.

It offered financial help from the NSFAS and gap funding for those who did not qualify for the scheme.

Petersen said they were fortunate that most of their students could afford the fees, and so the government subsidy that would have been allocated to them went to the poorer students.

News24
Source
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Were-trying-to-shield-poor-from-increases-UCT-20151019
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Stop talking sense.

BURN BURN DESTROYYYYYYY
 
schumi said:
Thomas Hartleb, News24

Cape Town – The University of Cape Town is trying to protect its poorer students from fee increases, the institution said on Monday.

The families of its largest group of students had no income, and would get financial aid of up to R100 000 while only paying about R1 250 themselves, acting Vice Chancellor Francis Petersen said in a statement.

This covered tuition, accommodation, food, and books.

UCT students began blocking entrances to the institution on Monday morning, in protest against a planned 10.3% increase. Petersen urged protesters to respect the rights of those who wanted to continue studying.

The Students’ Representative Council participated in the budgetary analysis and understood the need for an 11% increase. It supported a compromise proposal of 10.3%, which council accepted at its September meeting, Petersen said.

For the last few years, UCT’s block grant from government had increased by about 3% annually.

Average costs, largely due to inflation, including salary increases, had increased by 7% to 8%.

The institution raised about R200m to R300m from corporates, alumni and foundations. Together with the National Student Financial Aid Scheme it generated about R500m annually to help poor students.

It offered financial help from the NSFAS and gap funding for those who did not qualify for the scheme.

Petersen said they were fortunate that most of their students could afford the fees, and so the government subsidy that would have been allocated to them went to the poorer students.

News24
Source
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Were-trying-to-shield-poor-from-increases-UCT-20151019
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Yeah. I read a release last night from the acting VC. The sad thing is that these fees subsidize the really poor.

It's a terrible situation, brought on my NatGov decreasing the amount allocated to universities. The splitting up of higher education also needs to happen faster. Much faster
 
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I hope there are no accountancy students involved.

How do they expect the university to pay increased costs without raising the fees.
 
JStrike said:
Yeah. I read a release last night from the acting VC. The sad thing is that these fees subsidize the really poor
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Do you not think it's the job of government to provide fees for poor students?
 
Spizz said:
Do you not think it's the job of government to provide fees for poor students?
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I don't really care where the money comes from, as long as the poor get a chance at a good education as well
 
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