By Khanyisa Tabata
04 September 2009
Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande has called on the universities to give poor students from rural areas to give them support when entering the institutions.
It has been reported that Nzimande said that poor students are particularly vulnerable when they enter and feel alienated in an environment they often find the environment strange and that makes it difficult for them to adapt.
He added that transformation must be about the whole process of democratisation, national development, poverty alleviation and about creating a caring and equitable society which benefits all its citizens.
Any university transformation process must go beyond demographics and discrimination and begin to change every aspect of university life as well as contribute meaningfully to the transformation of society as a whole, added Nzimande.
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Who cares what this traitor thinks, so much for communist!!!
Having just finished at university, and paying my own way through, I have no issue with supporting poor students WHO WORK AND ACHIEVE THE GRADES. Our universities are full of free loaders who go from fail to fail. More over and allow the resource to be spent on the truly deserving. I'd sooner we fully supported those who made the effort rather than hand out to all hope for the best.
Sorry, should obviously read 'Move over'..
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