Higher education funding crisis and access: Student protests, UWC#FMF, and social movements
| dc.contributor.author | Mdepa, Anele | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-09-27T10:10:49Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-09-27T10:10:49Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
| dc.description.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. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.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 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-1-928332-89-3 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10566/7969 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of the Western Cape | en_US |
| dc.subject | Government's policy | en_US |
| dc.subject | Higher Education Act | en_US |
| dc.subject | School Education and Training Act | en_US |
| dc.subject | Funding | en_US |
| dc.title | Higher education funding crisis and access: Student protests, UWC#FMF, and social movements | en_US |
| dc.type | Book chapter | en_US |