Higher education minister Blade Minister confirmed to a briefing of parliamentary committees on Thursday that all tertiary students who are funded by the National Student Financial Aid Scheme and are registered at public universities and at technical and vocational education and training colleges in 2020, will have access to an appropriate digital device to support them to complete the 2020 academic year.
Nzimande said they were acquiring them centrally for TVET colleges and recommending the same for universities, but they would allow those institutions that have already started giving devices out, or think it's better if they provide the devices themselves to do so, provided that “we are convinced that their own individual institutions' plan are in line with our planning”.
He said the plan is for the devices not to be free and for students to own them, so that they take responsibility for them. Meanwhile MPs heard that from June 1, all universities will offer some form of remote multi-modal flexible teaching and learning, supported by approved resourced plans.
Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)
DrBladeNzimande Ngiyibekile izondo Ntobeko nton ziyobuya lezonduku
DrBladeNzimande DrBladeNzimande some students are left behind those who are affected by the N+2rule they were funded by myNSFAS all this students got email from their institutions saying they are no longer funded while their allowances were revoked SABCNews justice4 this students
DrBladeNzimande Heyyy don't give us if we gon pay for them some of us already have a laptop
DrBladeNzimande This plan will fail, just wait and see.
Government must rather start at primary school level's computers. How difficult is it to read R8301? (Three hundred eight thousand and and and one). How embarrassing 🙈🙈🙉🙉
DrBladeNzimande Student should be given a laptop allowance in the same manner they get book allowance ,no government needed there .if the government gets involved I smell a lot of corruption 🙄🙄😪
It's a bit late to be considering this now, don't you think? Universities have already started online learning weeks ago and there were students without laptops. But besides that...NO! Just NO!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 go make money
OFFS! 🤦🏻♂️
Which means millions will be spent and nobody will get a laptop
Oh FFS
Tenders in the pipeline
They already did this scam with the Gupta's & their computer supply company Savannah! Action replay We need to wake up as a society .... Every time they bash the Opposition the make the Tyrants stronger....
Somebody needs to chow from the trough again. Probably some cadres running low on trough money.
DrBladeNzimande Just let students bck to campus n let those who don't have laptop use ones at libraries to do online n those who have use theirs n online learning continue ,THIS THING OF LAPTOP WONT WORK N U NOT READY FR IT
These laptops are causing such a big stir. Funding was given for these laptops to be made available to students and now they have to pay for it... what on earth is happening here...
DrBladeNzimande You're slow exams are starting soon. How are the laptops going to get to students on time DrBladeNzimande ? Rather give students cash they will buy from wherever they are.
DrBladeNzimande Bidvest tender looming
Government wants to control, control, control, and their track record with stuff they control is bad, bad, bad!
Simply put someone must get the tender to supply the laptops
The laptops must be bought directly from the manufacturers!
Next up: ICT tender awarded to a friend.
Indeed laptops are expensive and the price can be inflated easily. It's a recipe for disaster. Imagine what laptops will be quoted on and the ones the learners get. Mobicel laptops at Apple prices! When you go on Zoom you'll look like a cartoon.
There they go...again...😣
About to make SAA’s overpriced water look like child’s play.
There comes Superior Looting.
A R5 000 entry level HP or Dell will be bought for R60 000
Stop delaying the process. The least the department can do is to audit the processes. Universities are caple of doing that. Stop it with tender entrepreneuring la bora
😂😂😂😂😷😷😷
Give the job to the existing higher education purchasing consortium PURCOSA. Their primary reason for existence is to leverage collaborative HE procurement spend to negotiate better sector-wide contracts
Does that mean we wont have to pay as much or at all I'm subjected to writing a semester test on my phone
So the TVETS sector won't receive any of these since I only see minster mentioning university 😐
Let's wait for commission of enquiry
Our govt has people who lack thinking capacity. Some students were on Nsfas and got dumped in their fourth year. They cannot afford these devices. What will happen to them?
tetelo811 mmata tla o bone
The magicians are about to make taxpayer money disappear...
angie_motshekga DBE_SA Does any1 know what happened to those laptops that were previously given to our school kids some years back? The schools who rcvd had theirs taken away 2 be given 2 other schools but now they r seemingly gone. Bad idea 4 gov 2 handle - greasy palms
One reason, and one reason only. Tenderpreneurs are struggling through COVID, so they need a lifeline. So jump to universities.
No way skelms
Great idea, they are so trustworthy.
Imagine if the “which South Africans?” morons took as much time to focus on important shit like the ANC openly stating they wish to steal more money like this as they did on stupid twitter shit
Of course ! Tenders for cadres baby
MYANC ARE THIEVES.
Nwaha u co buya wa fhela ngoho🙄
They should because now we are subjected to loaning them
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