YCLSA Press Statement
05 September 2012 YCLSA Welcomes announcement by NSFAS to launch Central Applications Office The Young Communist League of South Africa [Ufasimba] welcomes the announcement by the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) to roll out the Central Applications Office by the year 2013/2014 that we have been calling for as a solution against the increased financial exclusion of working class students from accessing higher education. We still continue our call to say the Central Applications Office (CAO) should be responsible for academic and financial applications and allocation of students to institutions of higher education; this call goes also for further education and training to remove the obstacles posed by institutional autonomy. The NSFAS CAO will go a long way in reducing the misappropriation and maladministration of funds meant to assist underprivileged students who seek access to higher and further education and training by removing the third parties in allocation decision making of such allocated funds. On Matric Examinations We would like to wish all matriculants success in their preliminary examinations as they prepare for the upcoming final matriculation exams at the end of the year. We encourage all stakeholders i.e. parents, educators, learners and members of the community to contribute in ensuring matriculants are prepared and they have all the necessary support despite whatever outcomes. We further call on the Education Department to permanently discontinue the publication of matriculation results. The publication of such has not benefitted anyone especially learners who find themselves in unnecessary pressure of being in the papers and this causes them great distress which also makes them lose focus on their studies and examinations. The rate of suicides due to non-appearance of learners in papers must be enough a reason for this discontinuance, as some are erroneously left out and end up being part of the statistics due to such. We further call on the Basic Education department to ensure all provinces fulfil their mandate in terms of delivery of learner support materials in time for the next year and the culture of learning and teaching becomes the order of the day in our country as part of committing to meet our developmental objectives. Education remains a basic right for the society we live in to curb the triple challenges of poverty, inequality and unemployment. “The task of the youth League is to learn, learn, learn” VI Lenin Issued by the YCLSA Head Office For more information contact: Mangaliso Stalin Khonza National Spokesperson Young Communist League of SA Cell: +27 83617 5546 Tel (w): +27 11 339 3621 Email: [email protected] Sent from my iPad -- 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] .
