News24white.png Wits Poll: The students have spoken Wim Pretorius, News24, Johannesburg, 30 September 2016 The University of Witwatersrand on Thursday conducted a poll asking students and staff if they wanted to continue with classes on Monday - and the results released on Friday might surprise some people. The question that was asked during the poll related to whether they wanted the academic programme to proceed on Monday should appropriate security be in place. Out of 21 730 people that voted, 77% voted yes. A total number of 16 739 students are in favour of proceeding with their regular programme, with only 4 991 (23%) preferring that the university remain closed. SizweNtsalubaGobodo One of the leading auditing firms in the country, SizweNtsalubaGobodo, audited the poll and provided the interim results. The university was still waiting for the auditors to verify the staff poll. These results would be made available as they come through. Wits spokesperson Shirona Patel said in a statement that the results of the poll - as well as feedback from parents, alumni and other stakeholders - would play a part in the decision that university management would make. "Management will also reach out to the student leadership, unions and other stakeholders to engage on a way forward," Patel said. The university said it would communicate over the weekend whether classes would resume next week. From: http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/wits-poll-the-students-have-spoken-20 160930 __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 14204 (20160930) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- 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] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/000c01d21b1e%24e18cb6f0%24a4a624d0%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
