UCT Progressive Youth Alliance Admissions Policy Task Team 09 January 2015 UCT mischievously using National Benchmark Tests (NBT) to reject Black, Coloured and Indian prospective applicants. The University of Cape Town Progressive Youth Alliance (UCT PYA) Admissions Policy Task Team has discovered with utter disappointment the malicious use of NBTs to replace National Senior Certificate (NSC) results in order to deny the Black, Coloured and Indian South Africans. This deceitful and conniving act by the university is not only meant to close doors to prospective African applicants, who in their majority are poor, but to also preserve the institution for whites. In its prospectus, the university claims to have been using placement tests for more than 30 years. The intention of the placement tests have however changed since their inception. Previously these tests were used to increase the chances of getting an offer and scholarships at the university, and to also examine whether an applicant would require additional support upon acceptance in order to succeed. Conversely NBTs are now used as an entrance requirement, where an offer to the university can be rejected on the bases of low performance on the placement tests, despite an applicant having met the minimum NCS requirements set by the various university Faculties. This of course is not surprising, given the sentiments about the NSC results once expressed by the Vice Chancellor, Dr Max Price (Medical Doctor not PhD) on behalf of the university. With the improvement of grade 12 results (class of 2013) in the Black, Coloured and Indian communities in particular, the Vice Chancellor shared the sentiments of the Democratic Alliance, stating that “the results were increasingly becoming unreliable”. This is clear evidence that the university completely disregards the hard work and efforts employed by thousands of previously disadvantaged South Africans whose sole aim is to liberate themselves from their conditions of poverty, unemployment and inequality through furthering their studies. The fact that the university is well aware that learners from disadvantaged communities and schools are less prepared to write NBTs than learners from well-off schools, clearly illustrates their endeavours to recruit whites and reject the Black, Coloured, Indian population groups. We would like to call on relevant stakeholders to take action against the university, and hold UCT accountable in the public eye. NBTs must never be used by universities to deny our brothers and sisters the right to learn. For more information contact: Luntu Sokutu (079 015 9595) Naledi Maponopono (071 441 9006)
Posted on: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 16:58:45 +0000
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