Katima students settle tuition fees with cattle
Students at Shiramed Medical Institute at Katima Mulilo have agreed with the institution to pay their tuition fees with cattle. Shiramed principal tutor Chani Felix says the arrangement has helped students to pay their fees with cattle, instead of cash, which is not readily available. “The school has also assisted students who cannot afford it […] The post Katima students settle tuition fees with cattle appeared first on The Namibian .
Students at Shiramed Medical Institute at Katima Mulilo have agreed with the institution to pay their tuition fees with cattle.
Shiramed principal tutor Chani Felix says the arrangement has helped students to pay their fees with cattle, instead of cash, which is not readily available.
“The school has also assisted students who cannot afford it for themselves but have got cattle. They have negotiated to exchange cattle for school tuition fees. This has been quite a model that has been working for us,” Felix said during a recent consultation with parliament’s standing committee on education, youth, civic relations and community development.
Felix said all students who qualify for funding from the Namibia Students Financial Assistance Fund (NSFAF) are fully funded.
Shiramed, which currently has 296 students, is a private nursing training institution which opened in March 2020 after the Ministry of Health and Social Services suspended nurses training at the Zambezi Regional Health Training Centre at the Katima Mulilo State Hospital in 2018.
Since the beginning of this year, president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has started subsidising tuition fees for public institutions.
