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HIGHER EDUCATION COMMITMENT TO FACILITATE INCREASED ACCESS TO
AND AFFORDABILITY OF HIGHER EDUCATION
The 23 universities in the public South African higher education
system have committed themselves to facilitating increased
access to higher education and to ensure that it remains
affordable for most individuals and families.
This commitment was shared with the Ministry of Higher Education
and Training at a meeting on 7 January 2010.Tuition fee
increases across the sector for 2010 as a percentage of those in
2009 have been kept in the range 9-15% in line with inflationary
pressures, as well as agreements and commitments within
individual institutions as a result of internal consultation
processes.
HESA is in the process of finalising guidelines aimed at
assisting institution to arrive at affordable tuition fees
whilst ensuring the maintenance of the quality of teaching and
learning; research facilities; student support and other
services; and the financial sustainability of our institutions.
We recognise the positive gesture from some of our institutions
which have put in place a process to make provisions for
financial assistance to academically deserving but needy
students from their own operational budgets.
The sector has specifically committed to the following:
• Making available appropriate financial support to students who
meet the relevant institutional
criteria, in order to ensure that no deserving student is denied
an educational opportunity on
financial grounds;
• Expediting the processing of upfront payments in the National
Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) so that NSFAS supported
students are in a position to pay first installments of fees;
• Strengthening institutional systems for detecting early
warning signals on student performance as well as mechanisms for
re-directing underperforming students to other areas of study;
• Ensuring that the goal of being responsive in terms of
facilitating is not by institutional inability to ensure
effective collection of debt. The current student debt within
the sector is in the region of R2.8 billion.
• Giving special attention to broadening access for students
from Quintile 1 Schools which are located in poor communities in
extremely disadvantaged rural areas of the country. Students
from these schools are to get special support to enter into
higher education as well as support to enhance their chances of
success.
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WAT IS BETER AS
GENESING? VOORKOMING
Ter ondersteuning van Wêreld Kankerdag op 4 Februarie 2010, met
die tema "Kanker kan ook voorkom word", tree KANSA as gasheer op
vir 'n Simposium in Pretoria oor kanker en die omgewing met Dr
Devra Davis as Gasspreker.
Sy is tans Professor in Voorkomende Medisyne by die Mt. Sinai
Mediese Sentrum in New York en was die Stigtersdirekteur van die
wêreld se eerste Sentrum vir Omgewingsonkologie by die
Universiteit van Pittsburgh se Kankerinstituut en Professor in
Epidimiologie by die genoemde Universiteit se Nagraadse Skool in
Openbare Gesondheid.
Dr Davis en ander gesaghebbendes sal praat oor
omgewingskarsinome (kankerveroorsakende faktore). Dit wat ons
weet, dit wat ons nie weet nie en dit wat u kan doen om u risiko
te verminder. "Navorsing toondat tot 90% van alle kankers deur
omgewingsfaktore veroorsaak word, wat dit van lewensbelang vir
die land maak om hiervan kennis te neem," sê Sue Janse van
Rensburg, HUB van KANSA.
"Hoekom is voorkoming nie die fokus van die stryd teen kanker
nie?" Vra Dr Davis in haar boek The Secret History of the War on
Cancer wat by die simposium tesame met Exclusive Books
bekendgestel word. Dr Davis, MPH, D Phil, is 'n bekroonde
Amerikaanse wetenskaplike en skrywer wat internasionaal bekend
is vir haar werk op omgewingsgesondheid en die voorkoming van
siektes.
Sy verduidelik: "Bewyse van hoe die wêreld waarin ons leef en
werk bepaal of ons kanker gaan kry, is óf oor die hoof gesien óf
onderdruk. Dis nie toevallig nie. Die Oorlog teen Kanker is
bedryf deur industrieleiers wat kankerveroorsakende produkte
vervaardig het, en selfs partykeer deur die medisyne en
tegnologieë ter opsporing en behandeling van kanker, bevoordeel
is."
Tydens die simposium sal Dr Stella Anyangwe, die AFRO
verteenwoordiger van die Wêreldgesondheidsorganisasie, die 2008
Wêreld Tabakvryedag Prestasietoekenning aan KANSA se HUB, Sue
Janse van Rensburg, oorhandig. Dit is ter erkenning van alles
wat KANSA bereik het in die stryd teen kanker in Suid-Afrika.
Omtrent die boek 'The Secret History of the War on Cancer'
Die War on Cancer se vertrekpunt is om kankers op te spoor, te
behandel en te genees. Baie van die faktore wat bekend was as
kankerveroorsakend, soos byvoorbeeld tabak, die werksplek,
bestraling of die wêreldomgewing, is uitgelaat. Gevul met
meeslepende persoonlikhede en inligting wat nog nooit voorheen
bekendgemaak is nie, toon The Secret History of the War on
Cancer aan hoe ons die stryd verkeerd begin het, met die
verkeerde wapens, en teen die verkeerde vyande 'n nalatenskap
wat tot vandag toe voortduur.
Omtrent die Kankervereniging van Suid-Afrika (KANSA)
KANSA se doel is om die voortou te neem om kanker in Suid-Afrika
te beveg deur 'n unieke en geïntegreerde diens aan die publiek
en aan almal wat deur kanker geraak is, te lewer. KANSA het meer
as 330 personeellede, 12 000 vrywilligers, 51 kantore en 12
tussentydse tuistes landswyd.
(Vir meer inligting, kontak Lucy Balona, Hoof: Bemarking en
Kommunikasie, KANSA op 011 616-7662 of 082 459-5230 of skakel
KANSA tolvry op 0800 22 66 22, of besoek www.cansa.org.za of
kontak u naaste KANS kantoor by 018 294 8253 of 018 468 2038 |
