* SASCO PRESS STATEMENT:* *Hiking of Entrance Requirements is a Class onslaught against the Poor* ** *05 August 2010*
The South African Students Congress is shocked and saddened by the hiking of entrance requirement by various universities as reported by various Sunday newspapers. These plans fly in the face of making university education accessible to the children of the working class and the poor. The hiking of entrance requirements is a class onslaught waged by neoliberal universities aimed at excluding the working class from universities. This move will have devastating effects for many working class children, who will sink deeper into the black hole of unemployment, poverty and crime. We are convinced that this move is linked to capital’s insatiable appetite for a pool of cheap black labour. It is not a secret that universities have become education arms of big business such as banks, mines and other monopoly industries. Instead of hiking entrance requirements and thus bowing down to the commands of the bourgeoisie, universities should instead be increasing academic support programmes such as tutorial classes. As SASCO, we call on the Ministry of Education to intervene in this regard. These reactionary moves by universities cannot be separated from an orchestrated attempt to subvert the revolutionary reforms entailed in the NSFAS Review Report, particularly the recommendation on the introduction of free higher education until undergraduate level for the working class and the poor. ** *For Details please contact * * * * Secretary General * *Lazola Ndamase* * * * 0826798718* -- Gugu Ndima +27 76 783 1516 -- Gugu Ndima +27 76 783 1516 -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] .
