challenges that students face

 Challenges that students face

There are many challenges that the youth faces when they get to university, but one of the most common problems is funding. Most South African students have been faced with this problem at one point of their university life and with the increasing fees it has not gotten any better.

The recent #feesmustfall challenges have done much to highlight the way that there are numerous fit, capable and enthusiastic students needing to guarantee a future for themselves through tertiary education. Lamentably, the truth for some brilliant would-be university graduates is that they basically don't have the money required to finish their tertiary education. Those who are less thoughtful towards challenges encompassing educational cost and settlement expenses may state that they needed to work their way through university, so why wouldn't others be able to. There are a horde of reasons why sometimes, this is not practical. A few students may as of now have the commitment to give cash to relatives – so any additional cash made would go towards that. Different students may originate from schools where aptitudes considered as basic, were not procured because of limited resources. In such cases, these students must invest substantially more energy getting their aptitudes up to an indistinguishable level from those of their more favored associates. Working part-time also reduces student’s chances to access funding, and in most cases students who work part-time don’t do so well academically.

With that said, there should be more ways in which one can access funding to complete their studies.  The government has allocated more money towards educational funding and has made more bursaries available example, NSFAS and Ikusasa bursary programme for the missing middle-class students. Programs like the (LBOC), let’s build our country fund have been introduced, this programme focuses on mentoring and educating the youth by giving 1000 students bursaries every year. South Africa also needs to create more colleges, that will provide mid-level skills at a reasonable cost. Fees are not just the government’s problem, universities, parent’s and private sector business must come together to try and provide funding for deserving students.