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30 September 2016 - 08:33
By SIPHO MABENA

A social entrepreneur has worked up a blueprint for a solution for the higher education fees crisis: the University of Everywhere, complete with a mass graduation party at Pretoria's Loftus Versfeld stadium. The current education funding model, where students have to pay for education, is not suitable for a poor third-world country like South Africa, Ian McDonald told the fees commission sitting in Centurion yesterday.

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