COTA courses back on

ALL suspended College of the Arts courses will resume on Monday after the ministry and the college reached an agreement.

In a statement issued yesterday, education permanent secretary Sanet Steenkamp said all classes for all courses would resume while durable solutions would be found to keep the affected courses going.

She said the ministry would also look into the material needs for the four courses, and that talks were underway to transfer the college to the higher education ministry.

Earlier this week, more than 150 students from the College of the Arts in Windhoek marched to protest the suspension of four courses because of a lack of funds to pay lecturers.

All the courses were in the media department, and first and second-year students were affected.

The head of the media studies department, Joost van de Port, told earlier this week that there was a shortage of lecturers for the courses, and no money to pay those lecturing part-time.

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