Source: Department of Education
Title: N Pandor: SAASSAP gala dinner
ADDRESS BY NALEDI PANDOR, MP, MINISTER OF EDUCATION, AT THE SOUTH AFRICAN ASSOCIATION OF SENIOR STUDENT AFFAIRS PROFESSIONALS GALA DINNER, RHODES UNIVERSITY, Grahamstown, 4 November 2004
Ms Naziema Jappie, President of SAASSAP
Deans of Students
Ladies and gentlemen
Good evening. It is a pleasure to be here in Grahamstown and it is a pleasure to be among those who have the interests of students at heart. In government we spend so much time thinking about students, but we spend most of our time talking to teachers and administrators and it is easy to forget that students have voices and interests and that they deserve special attention within the broad scheme of institutional and national transformation.
The period since 1994 has been dominated by the government-led consolidation of a durable democratic and responsive framework of governance. There are many notable achievements and students and student affairs professionals must begin to give attention to the massive task of ensuring that progress achieved is progress maintained.
What, then, are the challenges student affairs professionals face today in higher education ,
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