Commission gets underway

The Admissions Commission that will look into UCT's admissions policy has finalised its composition. The members are as follows:

• Judge Craig Howie (chairperson), member of the UCT Council
• Graeme Bloch, member of the UCT Council
• Professor Lungisile Ntsebeza, professor of sociology at UCT
• Professor Crain Soudien, deputy vice-chancellor
• Professor Neville Alexander, director of the Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South Africa
• Professor Nan Yeld, dean of Higher Education Development (co-opted to the commission given her expertise in CHED matters and benchmark testing)
• Alexander Spoor - Students' Representative Council

The commission is supported in its work by Royston Pillay, director in the Office of the Vice-Chancellor.

The commission is in session and has invited inputs from internal and external persons (the submission deadline was Friday, 9 March). Thereafter, the commission will deliberate the issues raised by respondents and also make a determination as to who it would wish to invite for oral interviews.

The provisional timetable is as follows:

• 9 March - Deadline for submissions
• 29 March - The commission will meet to decide who it will invite for interviews
• 15/16/17 May - Oral hearings

Subsequent to the oral hearings, the commission will deliberate to formulate its recommendations.