Why despite increased money flow to the National Student Financial Aid Scheme do we remain stuck in the same place, repeating student protests year after year? Experts tackle the issue in this week's Friday Briefing.
Wash, rinse, repeat. Repeat, repeat, repeat. In October 2015, the #FeesMustFall movement erupted across campuses around the country.
Protests reignited in 2016 but were fragmented. With little progress being made in addressing ever shifting and changing student demands. By the end of 2017, the Heher Commission into the Feasibility of Fee-Free Higher Education and Training found there was no capacity for the state to provide free tertiary education to all students in the country.
But it didn't address the latent issues that remained. Student debt, and unpaid fees remain a residual issue, the matter of the missing middle, in which category large numbers of students fell, was unaddressed, as was the question of accommodation and subsistence. With teaching and learning resuming after migrating online after Covid-19, the return to in-person learning and teaching has predictably seen the return of student protests, some more violent and destructive than in the past.
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