Zuma’s ‘grants not loans’ for tertiary education flies in the face of Heher Commission

Zuma's 'grants not loans' for tertiary education flies in the face of Heher Commission

President Jacob Zuma. (Thuli Dlamini, Gallo Images, The Times, file) Johannesburg – President Jacob Zuma’s announcement of fee-free higher education and training for university students from 2018, in the form of grants not loans, flies in the face of recommendations made by the Heher Commission.

The commission found that there was currently no capacity for the government to provide free tertiary education to all students in the country.

"There is insufficient financial capacity in the state to provide totally free higher education and training to all who are unable to finance their own education, let alone to all students, whether in […]

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