Wits VC explains 6% fee hike
Vice-Chancellor at Wits, Adam Habib has spelt out how the proposed 6% fee increase cap that was announced yesterday will come into effect.
Speaking to the media in Cape Town, Habib denied that the deal was a raw as asked by one of the journalists.
Instead he says the commitment further encourages discussion on the issue as opposed to having a setting figure of fee hikes.
Habib says it is not given that every institution will set their fee increase at 6% but it could be less depending on each university.
He has emphasized that the 6% cap is only for 2016.
''This should be enough to prompt negotiations to happen. We know where our goal is for our fee increase and there might be other things like the registration fee that will be tackled at an institutional level.
''From 2017 onwards we are going to effectively draw a co-operative governance process and develop a sustainable fee regime that looks at both input variables that will look at the subsidy,'' he said.
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