Enrolment at Higher Education institutions on the rise
Grants by national government to Higher Education increased by 144 per cent over a ten year period from 2006 to 2015.
STATISTICS South Africa (Stats SA) Statistician-General Pali Lehohla says the number of students that have enrolled at institutions of higher learning have been on the increase over a ten year period. Briefing the media at the Imbizo Centre in Cape Town, statistician-general said the Financial Statistics of Higher Education Institutions 2015 report shows that enrolments at universities have been rising since 2006 until 2015.
“Student enrolment in Higher Education grew by 32.5 per cent from 2006 to 2015. So that’s the enrolment – it grew from 700 000 to almost a million in 2015,” he said.
He said first year students constituted 170 000 of those that were registered to study in 2015. He said before 2015, they were fewer.
Meanwhile, Lehohla said grants by national government to Higher Education increased by 144 per cent over a ten year period from 2006 to 2015.
He said grants received by the public Higher Education institutions in 2015 amounted to R26.9 billion, which was R1.5 billion more compared with 2014 (R25.4 billion).
He added salaries of universities comprise about 58 per cent of the total Higher Education expenditure over the ten-year period.
“On average, income from tuition fees increased by 12.7 per cent per annum over the ten year period – well above inflation of 2006 to 2015.”
