OPINION | Not every learner has to acquire a university qualification. Fair discrimination requires all South Africans, regardless of background, to have an equal chance to meet the minimum standard to access institutions of higher education.
system. Merit gives the state flexibility to allocate resources in line with politically constructed developmental aspirations.sets the basis for fair discrimination in higher education through an admission policy by the council of a public higher education institution.Learners with a pass of 30% to 40% qualify for university enrolment. This is where we argue that education must discriminate. Only students passing with an overall mark of 80% to 100% should go to universities.
It is critical to point out at this juncture that these learners can still enrol in private universities in South Africa at their own cost. While there are arguments that these learners have a right to public university education, this right is not being denied nor delayed. The learners can still achieve their degree and degree-equivalent certificates from these multiple pathways.
While the government has attempted to mitigate financial hurdles to access, most learners in rural and poor communities might still not be able to access these opportunities.nature of the right to higher education does not absolve the government and allow it to slack in its constitutional obligation to deliver access to higher education but rather recognise the economic and time constraints that arbitrate the provision of the right and the need for flexibility in pursuit of this right.
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