Surge in cost of higher education

By Leanne Jansen. Durban - The cost of higher education is to increase by between 8 percent and 12 percent this year with accounting, engineering, medicine, nursing and fine art among the most expensive courses to study, according to a snap survey by The Mercury.
The increases come as institutions face escalating operating costs, shrinking state subsidies and hundreds of millions of rand in student debt.
Fees at the Durban University of Technology (DUT) will rise by 7 percent next year.
The increase was attributed to rising electricity, municipal and insurance costs. Read more...