HELB bows to pressure, reinstates old funding model

University students camp outside the National Treasury during a peaceful demonstration to push for immediate release of HELB funds. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

The Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) has bowed to student pressure and reinstated the old funding model as it awaits a High Court ruling on the suspension of the Student-Centred Funding Model.

This decision means that first and second year students will now be funded under the Differentiated Unit Cost (DUC) model, similar to their third year comrades.