#FreeEducation

#Free Education

Free Education is when students study in any institution without paying fees and its an education funded through taxation rather than tuition funding.Social Media Video 2013 - YouTube

Advantages of Social media
Social media can be a useful tool for businesses to engage with public audiences. It also helps to build authentic relationships with other people. Secondly it helps you to connect with many bloggers on your field. Social media helps a brand manager to interact with its clients or stakeholders who are in other countries. It attract the attention of potential customers and increase brand visibility, it is much cheaper and many people are active to it.In addition it can help an organisation to maintain a good reputation and maintain a presence on particular social networks that are line with your target audience, for example  if you are targeting young people you could reach them through snap-chat and if you are are seeking business customers LinkedIn may be the best channel.Free Education | Right to Education Initiative

Good impact of Social media on Free Education
Social media in free education saga as a way of enhancing the education of students and it also allowed students of different institution to interact together finding solutions on how to make free education successful. Social media also played an impact for students to find out what is said by the President on social networks by free education.#Education - YouTube The speeches and conference, announcements made by the President were posted on social media and all that updated students about what to expect about free education as they are so active on media.Advantages and Disadvantages of Social Media

Disadvantages of Social media
Social media can easily ruin someone's reputation just by creating a false story and spreading across the world. People can share a bad story about your brand and spread the whole world and cause a bad reputation for your company and have bad publicity, and also end up losing so much of your target audiences and stakeholders. In addition it is easy to get caught up on social media of cyber bullies.The impact of social media: advantages or disadvantages

Challenges that face Free education
Free education in South Africa is a goal worth pursuing, especially for students who are poor and want access to tertiary institutions and those who correctly see it as a right  and development for a country. The huge challenge is making the slogan of free education a reality. There is not enough money from any source and government  as the biggest subsidy provider is not doing well. South Africa is lowest in world terms for tertiary funding. There are many problems for the government, including the state of the world economy which ensures that there is not enough money yet it needs tertiary graduates for developing the country.Department of Basic Education - Official Site

Recommendations

• It recommends that government increase its expenditure on higher education and training.
• It also recommends that the National student aid financial scheme(NSFAS) be replaced by an income contingent loan system(ICL) that would be government backed loans that would only need to be repaid at a specific income level.NSFAS to fund more than 400‚000 students this year
• The report recommended the scrapping registration fee across the board in higher education.
• The TVET college students receive fully subsidised education.
• Overall on student accommodation, there is a severe shortage of student accommodation it recommended an affordable plan to develop more student accommodation.Free education is possible if South Africa moves beyond