Zuma Announces Free Higher Education for Poor and Working Class Students

Zuma Announces Free Higher Education for Poor and Working Class Students

Grants for poor and working class South African students at universities and TVET colleges will continue to be managed and administered by the National Student Financial Aid Scheme through their recently completed student centred-model. Free education, he said, would be available to these student in 2018, which is less than a month away.

This funding – which will cover the full cost of study including tuition fees, prescribed study material, meals, accommodation and transport – will be phased-in over a period of five years.

Zuma had also said that technical vocational education and training (TVET) colleges fees would be fully subsidised […]

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