‘No TUT student will experience any fee adjustments in 2017’

25 October 2016 - 10:23 By Neo Goba

The Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) will not make any fee adjustments for 2017. “The Tshwane University of Technology's Council last week resolved in a special meeting that no TUT student will experience any fee adjustments in 2017‚” the university said in a statement on Monday night.“To ensure that no TUT student experiences a direct fee increment‚ the self-funding students‚ who account for an estimated 10% of the university's student body‚ will also be assisted by the university. “This means that no TUT student will experience any fee adjustment next year‚ fees will remain as they were in 2015.”The statement said a memorandum of agreement was signed by university management and the institutional student representative council on Monday.It also noted Minister of Higher Education and Training Blade Nzimande’s announcement last month that it would be up to universities to decide their own fee increases for the 2017 academic year‚ but said this could not be more than 8%. The government will‚ however‚ assist qualifying students to fund the gap between the 2015 fee and the adjusted 2017 fee at their institution.Nzimande said government was committed to finding the resources to support children of households that earn less than R600,000 a year. – TMG Digital..

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