{"id":1739,"date":"2016-10-26T13:03:29","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T11:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studentnewsgrid.com\/?p=1739"},"modified":"2016-10-26T13:03:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T11:03:29","slug":"no-fee-increment-tut-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/2016\/10\/26\/no-fee-increment-tut-students\/","title":{"rendered":"No fee increment for TUT students"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fees have not fallen at Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) but they will remain the same for next year. Yesterday TUT vice-chancellor Lourens van Staden announced that TUT students would not experience a fee increment for 2017. The decision was made last week on October 20 during a special meeting held by TUT\u2019s council.<\/p>\n

On Monday, October 24, TUT management met with the Institutional Student Representative Council (ISRC) to sign a memorandum. The memorandum consisted of several agreements; the first being that no student will pay a fee increment for 2017. This was followed by the agreement that the \u201cfinancially needy and academically deserving students will not be excluded because of historic debt.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the memorandum it was also agreed that all academic activities will continue with no further interruptions. Lastly, it was agreed that \u201cany student who wishes to retake a test, or missed a test between 17 and 27 October 2016, will be given to opportunity to do so\u201d.<\/p>\n

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In a statement released yesterday by TUT management, it was explained how the fee-adjustment would be accounted for. Self-funded students, who account for an estimated 10% of the student population, will be covered by the university. According to the statement \u201cThe fee adjustment for 2017 for NSFAS-qualifying and ‘missing middle’ students will be funded by the [Department Higher Education and Training] DHET.\u201d<\/p>\n

Furthermore, TUT has made it clear that it supports the call for fee-free education. TUT \u201cunderstand[s] the plight of the majority of students, who without financial support would never be able to fulfil their dream of obtaining a university qualification\u201d.<\/p>\n

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The response from students and the public to this decision appears to be mixed. After TUT released their statement on Twitter, some viewed this as a wise decision while some saw this as a weak decision made by the SRC.<\/p>\n

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Fees have not fallen at Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) but they will remain the same for next year. Yesterday TUT vice-chancellor Lourens van Staden announced that TUT students would not experience a fee increment for 2017. The decision was made last week on October 20 during a special meeting held by TUT\u2019s council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":1749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,26,122],"tags":[155,128,160,121,179,149],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}