{"id":6134,"date":"2022-04-20T10:11:05","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T10:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/?p=6134"},"modified":"2022-04-20T10:11:06","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T10:11:06","slug":"afriforum-youth-demands-that-public-universities-resume-contact-classes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/afriforum-youth-demands-that-public-universities-resume-contact-classes\/","title":{"rendered":"AfriForum Youth demands that public universities resume contact classes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>AfriForum Youth today sent a formal application in terms of the Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA) to all 25 public universities in the country to determine what their adapted policy is on campus-based tuition and activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This follows after many universities replaced campus-based tuition with online tuition during the COVID-19 pandemic and still continue to do so. This even though contact classes no longer pose a risk to students. AfriForum Youth will not accept online tuition as the new norm and demands that universities resume contact classes in full.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cStudents from across the country pay for contact classes and quality education, but they now receive a watered-down version of their curriculum, which had been designed and accredited for contact education,\u201d says Ren\u00e9 van der Vyver, Spokesperson for AfriForum Youth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The unhappiness over the quality of online classes was brought to AfriForum Youth\u2019s attention by students from various universities and their parents. Furthermore, universities that changed from campus-based to online education can cut back on their costs, whereas no financial relief is offered to students and parents.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cAlthough distance learning was a good alternative when we were faced with Covid-19, this form of education now challenges students and their parents in many ways. These challenges can be mitigated with a return to contact classes,\u201d says Ronald Peters, Manager of AfriForum Youth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>AfriForum Youth would like to encourage students to sign their online <a href=\"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/lasaanlynklas\/\">petition<\/a> to put pressure on universities to resume contact classes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AfriForum Youth today sent a formal application in terms of the Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA) to all 25 public universities in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":6132,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[465],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-statements"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":465,"label":"Media statements"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/sigmund-eTgMFFzroGc-unsplash-1024x683.jpg",1024,683,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"AfriForum","author_link":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/author\/chante-kelder\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":465,"name":"Media statements","slug":"media-statements","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":465,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":222,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":465,"category_count":222,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Media statements","category_nicename":"media-statements","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"fimg_url":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/sigmund-eTgMFFzroGc-unsplash-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6136,"href":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6134\/revisions\/6136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afriforumjeug.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}