DETERMINANTS OF THE PERCEPTIONS OF FREE HIGHEREDUCATION AMONG STUDENTS AT A SOUTH AFRICANUNIVERSITY
The debate on the mode of financing of higher education is not a new one. Fordecades, there have been opposing views and conflicting efforts in as far as thefinancing of higher education is concerned. Most developed countries have moreor less settled on a regime that does...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Social Sciences Research Society
2016-01-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Economics and Finance Studies |
| Online Access: | http://www.sobiad.org/eJOURNALS/journal_IJEF/archieves/IJEFS2016_1/paper17A_Dunga_Mncayi.pdf |
| Summary: | The debate on the mode of financing of higher education is not a new one. Fordecades, there have been opposing views and conflicting efforts in as far as thefinancing of higher education is concerned. Most developed countries have moreor less settled on a regime that does not compromise on both quality and equity byintroducing financing mechanisms that allow the needy to borrow money orcommonly known as soft loans only payable after graduating and securing a job.In developing countries, there is still antagonism and a lot of frustration amongstudents and parents in the sense that higher education is still not accessible bymany and the financing of the same still excludes the majority of deservingstudents. Towards the end of 2015 and beginning of 2016, students in SouthAfricanuniversities rose up to first demand no increment of their tuition andthereafter free higher education. This paper looks at the perceptions of free highereducation among students at one of the universities in South Africa and alsoassesses the demographic characteristics that inform their cosmological point ofview and hence the perceptions. |
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| ISSN: | 1309-8055 1309-8055 |