HRDC developments are akin to harassment
Thursday, November 13, 2014
I am cognisant of the Presidential directive in 2010 that prescribed that the management of the Education support Fund (ESF) should be outsourced and operated along banking lines. We are also told by those in power that the situational analysis and international benchmarking has been done. I have read and noted with utter dismay some unpalatable developments emerging from the MoESD, DTEF to be specific-shocking developments that have a serious bearing on student formal education, their loans and welfare. Such a myriad of vicissitudes or rather developments as already aptly narrated by SRCs includes among others;
The Student loan being payable within six months after the students have graduated. Within this horror, comes with it, something that is obviously anathema to many of us which is-the parents assets will be attached to act as security so that the council can be reimbursed the money, according to local media.
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