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    Everything you need to know about higher education’s CACH system

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    The Central Applications Clearing House (CACH) system has been pushed by universities and the department of higher education and training (DHET) as the route...

    Careful where you try to walk in, some universities have no...

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    South African universities have revised their earlier position to make provision for walk-in and late applications for prospective students. However, this doesn’t necessarily mean...

    Everything you need to know about NSFAS (2018)

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    The second week of January has seen many students across the country entering universities and registering for the first time. The National Student Financial...

    Student leaders have little faith in Ramaphosa rolling out free education

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    Some student leaders say the new African National Congress (ANC) president Cyril Ramaphosa will not make a difference to the Fees Must Fall movement,...

    Zuma’s free education plan will dump the costs onto academics

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    President Zuma dropped the bomb of all bombs on the FeesMustFall question on Saturday, declaring free and state-subsidised tertiary education. While the decision has...

    Zuma’s free education plan is a ferocious hospital pass to his...

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    Finance minister Malusi Gigaba was the very picture of discomfort on Saturday. He was at the 54th national conference of the African National Congress,...

    Zuma’s free education announcement cautiously welcomed by student leaders

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    On Saturday, the Presidency announced a new higher education policy, which promised free education for TVET students, and a wide-ranging grant system for poor...

    Free Education at last? President Zuma announces sweeping changes to higher...

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    A month after the Heher Commission on Free Higher Education released its long awaited report, President Jacob Zuma announced sweeping changes to the higher...

    The Fees Commission Report brings us no closer to justice for...

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    Almost four months after the Heher Commission completed its work and gave President Zuma its report, the fundamental issues raised by the #FeesMustFall movement...

    The Fees Commission’s income contingent loans explained

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    University students have been protesting for free, decommodified and decolonised education since 2015. In January 2016, President Jacob Zuma in January 2016 commissioned an...

    Disappointed but not surprised: the shortcomings of the Fees Commission report

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    The Fees Must Fall movement emerged in 2015 through university students who felt that higher education was an inalienable right no one should pay...

    We did not ask for loans, that is not free education...

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    Student Representative Councils (SRCs) from some universities across the country are rejecting the recommendations made by the Fees Commission report on the funding of...

    Universities are still studying the Fees Commission report

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    South African universities have welcomed the release of the Heher Commission report but are still deliberating its 750 pages before announcing what this means...

    Fees Commission report calls for removal of application and registration fees

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    The Fees Commission report found that while fee-free education across the board is fiscally irresponsible, doing away with application and registration fees isn’t. South Africans...

    Here’s how the Fees Commission wants to use BBBEE to fund...

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    The recently proposed Ikusasa Student Financial Aid Programme (ISFAP) by the higher education ministerial task team aims at using the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment...

    #FeesCommission report: How TVETs win

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    Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions are the biggest winners according to the recommendations of the Fees Commission report. Universities will not...