Treasury scrutinises proposal for fee-free higher education
Treasury has shed some light on how fee-free education would work.
The Deputy Director for Public Finance has been discussing funding for fee-free tertiary education.
Mampho Modise says the plan needs the full support of Treasury to make it sustainable. And she says there are problems with the current proposal.
"First year students who are coming in - in 2018 - will get full cost of funding. The second-year students don't get full cost of studying. They get their loans converted into grants. Even if this package was announced - there are still other things that we have to look at," she says.
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Modise has been discussing the challenges around the planned move at UKZN's Westville campus. She says Treasury's looking into these issues.
"There's a lot of policy that is being developed. If we could, we could have given everyone full cost of study but it doesn't work like that because of the lack of resources that we are having," she says