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Original Post Date: 2007-03-01 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
Johannesburg
Rhodes University in Grahamstown has increased its projected expenditure on bursaries for black students from poor backgrounds by 31%, The Herald reported on its website on Tuesday.
The increase came when new vice-chancellor Saleem Badat brought in a wide range of stakeholders last year to help decide on the university’s 2007 budget as part of his new, more inclusive approach.
He said, however, the national education department had about R2bn more to spend on higher education over the next three years, and he was “quietly confident” that Rhodes will get a solid bite of this money.
He said he was still concerned that 10% of former white, or Model C schools were still producing 60% of the university’s entrance candidates, while 10% of black schools were producing 20% and the remaining 80% of township schools produced only 20%.
“The schooling system is still short-changing them (township youths),” he said.
He noted that academic leadership was the problem and money, infrastructure and curriculum development alone would not help.
The 2007 Rhodes budget of R270m, of which R150m was their state subsidy, meant that R120m was being brought in by tuition fees, donations and contract work.
Previously, the university received the bulk of its income from the state. The decline of the state subsidy over the last 15 years had placed an upward pressure on tuition fees and “third streaming” contract research, endowments and donations.
This had placed universities beyond the reach of poor people without financial aid and made a university education a huge stretch for lower to middle income families.
http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,9294,2-7-1442_2075599,00.html