Higher education funding crisis and access: Student protests, UWC#FMF, and social movements
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Date
2022
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University of the Western Cape
Abstract
Inadequate government funding for higher education, a higher education institutional
funding crisis, and students’ individual financial crises provoked students in 2015
and 2016 to mobilise themselves to protest against fee increases. Propelled by the
#FeesMustFall movement which emerged in 2015, student activists demanded free access
to higher education and succeeded in securing increased National Student Financial
Aid Scheme (NSFAS) funding and a ‘no fee increase’ for 2015 and 2016. The rise of
fallist movements such as the #FeesMustFall movement signified new forms of social
movements, new ways of mobilisation, and new forms of social movement learning. This
chapter focuses on the UWC#FMF movement which emerged at the University of the
Western Cape (UWC) to protest against the proposed 2015 fee increase prompted by the
funding crisis in higher education.
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Government's policy, Higher Education Act, School Education and Training Act, Funding
Citation
Mdepa,A. (2022). Higher education funding crisis and access: Student protests, UWC#FMF, and social movements. Adult education and learning access: Hope in times of crisis in South Africa. pg 107-126