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The new President of Namibia has announced that the university’s fees will be canceled from 2026.
The President of Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, the country’s first country, made a statement on Thursday night during his girlfriend.
Addressing the legislators, Nanddi-Indeit said that students would not pay “without registration (or) tuition fees” at all state universities and technical colleges.
However, she said there would be no “significant” additional funding, causing questions about the expediency of the scheme.
Nandi-Ndaitwah said the free university education would be gradual and that the only “contribution as families and students will still be towards living and other related costs.”
“We have heard your screams:” Tariffs have fallen, “she said, a link to the previous requirements of the University students in Namibia, as well as neighboring South Africa.
She said the money would come from subsidies already provided by some of the country’s state universities and the money allocated to the financial aid fund.
“When we are going to add, we are not going to add significant (the amount of funds),” she said.
Primary and secondary education is already free in all state schools in the country.
While some student organizations welcomed the announcement of the Nanddi-Faith, others criticized it as an impossible and vague.
One of them is a positive reshuffle of the student command (ARSC), which states that it is just attention of the Namibian government.
“No plan, it’s just a bewildered announcement that raises the issue (Nandi-Ndaitwah),” the BBC said.
Improving, ARSC asked what students will benefit – graduate students or only students – where will the financing come from.
This was responded to the mood expressed by Tann Grnewald, an economist who talked to the local news site The Windhoek Observer.
He suggested that the removal of the fees, without providing additional financing, could restrict the number of students.
He also suggested that this could eventually spread only to students from low -income households.
This is how it happened in neighboring South Africa.
In 2017, the government succumbed to the removal of higher education fees that were made during what was known as the #Feesmustfall protests – but only a small number of students.
Since then, he has been criticized too restrictive, because, as the so -called “missing mids”, those who were considered too rich to qualify for financial assistance, but who are fighting to afford tuition fees.
