missing middle

Since the announcement by President Jacob Zuma in December of free education for the poor and working class, there’s been a lot of confusion surrounding how government would implement it. Besides plans for 2018, government have not provided…

The free education plan that is expected to come into full effect this year was another major victory for the Fees Must Fall movement. Since 2015, students across the country have been calling for the decommodification of tertiary…

The #FeesMustFall protests highlighted that there are many students and families who are struggling to fund their university tuition. Some students, unable to get NSFAS loans, or bursaries and scholarships have taken up crowdfunding to…

May came and went, and we are officially at the halfway point of 2017. We don't know how we got here: there is new evidence proving the extent of the Guptas’ state capture, and Cape Town is dealing with a serious drought - all while the…

The University of Johannesburg (UJ) has raised R147 million for missing middle students but just how long can the university keep it up for? The Daily Vox takes a look at the issues with fundraising for higher education. The missing middle…

South Africa’s higher education sector has been rocked over the last two years as the Fees Must Fall protests at universities, colleges and technikons have exposed and emphasised the financial struggles of aspiring graduates. But as the…

South Africa’s higher education sector has been rocked over the past two years as the Fees Must Fall protests at universities, colleges, and technikons have exposed and emphasised the financial struggles of aspiring graduates. But as the…

South Africa’s higher education sector has been rocked over the last two years as the Fees Must Fall protests at universities, colleges and technikons have exposed and emphasised the financial struggles of aspiring graduates. But as the…

South Africa’s higher education sector has been rocked over the last two years as the Fees Must Fall protests at universities, colleges and technikons have exposed and emphasised the financial struggles of aspiring graduates. But as the…

South Africa’s higher education sector has been rocked over the last two years as the Fees Must Fall protests at universities, colleges and technikons have exposed and emphasised the financial struggles of aspiring graduates. But as the…

South Africa’s higher education sector has been rocked over the last two years as the Fees Must Fall protests at universities, colleges and technikons have exposed and emphasised the financial struggles of aspiring graduates. But as the…

Despite the #FeesMustFall protests that took place at the end of 2016, in which students from universities around the country took to the streets demanding free, decolonised education, most universities have opted to increase their…

On Monday, the ministerial task team presented the Ikusasa Student Financial Aid Programme (ISFAP) at the Fees Commission in Centurion. The ministerial task team was put together by government in October 2015 to address the crises in higher…

University fees are set to rise by 8% for the 2017 academic year but a proposed new funding model from the department of higher education could see 70% of undergraduate students exempted from this. “Government is committing to finding the…

One of the biggest issues to come out of last year’s #FeesMustFall protests is how many university students are excluded from studying because they are considered too rich for NSFAS and too poor to pay for their tuition on their own. So…