By: THULANI dAMBUZA

THULANI dAMBUZA — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 19:33:00 +0000

Hello I am a 19 year old student from South Africa. I believe education is the key to fight poverty in Africa. Through education people can get qualifications ,better jobs ,solid income which leads to money to feed the family. South African education system has dropped since 1994 which saw an increase in the demand for private education which is very costly .I myself went through private education which lead to the people owing my school get richer -in the process not caring much about our education as long as they get their money .Problem with this private education is that the people who need it the most don’t benefit from it as only the already rich will get richer while the poor stays poor. University is already an expense thing for parents as most have to go through it with bursaries, loans and scholarships -this would increase the expenses even more and have deteriorating number of enrolments because no one would be able to afford it .I fully agree with you as how unemployment would increase because there’s less amount number of people with qualifications to get the jobs .only jobs available for people would be waiting and McDonalds jobs

By: Rebecca Molokwane

Rebecca Molokwane — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 04:59:50 +0000

i have to agree with you writer because market for higher education is turning to become more like a private good even though we know that its demand its inelastic but this has a huge impact on those who are very poor but have good academic record. yes there are bursaries out there to fund these people but not all of them can get to receive a bursary in addition if there is an increase in the market,it will mean an increase in government subsidies and these will in turn hurt the the taxpayers.

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