Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande has not yet given any direction on the future of the academic year.
The University of Fort Hare will make 12,000 laptops, along with modems and data, available to students for online learning while they are under lockdown as part of efforts to delay the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Other universities, including Wits University, the University of Johannesburg and the University of Cape Town have already started distributing devices and data to students.Some students have expressed that online learning was not possible for everyone, especially those in rural and disadvantaged areas.
“Management, therefore, foresees continued and sustained disruption to normal university functions and traditional methods of learning which involve contact sessions between students and teaching staff.
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