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Fees still to be gazetted
Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU)
January 19, 2009

The Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education has dismissed the new fee structure gazetted by some state universities namely the Midlands State University (MSU) and the National University of Science and Technology (NUST). In a story carried out by the state owned weekly newspaper, The Sunday Mail of the 18th of January, the permanent secretary in the Ministry, Dr Washington Mbizvo said that the ministry is yet to approve any university fees, but instead they were waiting for recommendations from universities on the new fees for the 2009 academic.' State Universities fees have not yet been finalised because the universities have not yet submitted their recommendations,'' Mbizvo told the paper. Some state universities have already posted notices on their websites with a proposed fee increase in foreign currency.

The Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU) last week launched a campaign against the dollarization of education in Zimbabwe (NACADEZ) and the campaign is in full swing and will only stop when our demands to pay affordable fees in local currency are met. The campaign also saw the union writing a petition to the Ministry of Higher Education regarding the proposed fees by state institutions. The announcement by Mbizvo is a clear indication that there are giving in to pressure from the students and we wish to assure the students that victory is certain. We hope that the Ministry of Higher Education is going to handle the fees issue with a sober mindset and come up with affordable fees which we feel should be pegged in local currency.

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