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Admissions Policy debate
February
| Date | Article/letter | Author | Media |
| 28 Feb |
UCT's race-based admissions wrong A Ismail ("UCT's admissions policy is fair...", Cape Points, February 24), and others like him, including UCT's Dr Max Price, still fail to grasp the key criticism of the university's admission policy. |
Thomas Johnson, Lansdowne | Cape Argus |
| 27 Feb |
Admissions policy bridges race divide Arthur J Wienburg ("Admit admissions policy is skewed", Cape Points, February 22) assumes a particular white student was turned away by the University of Cape Town's medical degree programme on the basis of her skin colour. |
Gerda Kruger, UCT | Cape Argus |
| 24 Feb |
UCT's admissions policy is fair under circumstances JOHN Buchanan ("Education, not skin colour, should be only real criterion", Cape Points, February 22) and, on the same day, Arthur Wienburg ("Admit admissions policy is skewed") continue to criticise UCT's admissions policy, but fail to provide any viable alternatives that will successfully transform its student body from being predominantly white during apartheid to being more representative of the demographics of the country. |
A Ismail; Siyabulela Nomtshongwane, Athlone | Cape Argus |
| 22 Feb |
Education (not skin colour) should be only real criterion A Ismail, "UCT deserves praise for tackling wrongs of the past" (Cape Points, February 14) ironically ends his letter saying we should "propose an improved admissions system to UCT". |
John Buchanan, Somerset West | Cape Argus |
| 22 Feb |
Admit admissions policy is skewed A Ismail ("UCT deserves praise for tackling wrongs of the past", Cape Points, February 14) spends his entire letter trying to justify UCT's racial discrimination against whites by blaming apartheid, the National Party government, the present corrupt ANC government, the education system post-apartheid and environmental issues of blacks. |
Arthur J Wienburg, Cape Town | Cape Argus |
| 22 Feb |
UCT seeks input on admission criteria UCT has called for public comments on its admission policy - which uses race as a proxy for classifying students as disadvantaged - in a bid to replace its often controversial race-based policy. |
Michelle Jones | Cape Times |
| 22 Feb |
The score factor The admissions process at UCT is very competitive. We received more than 26 000 applications for just over 4 000 first-year places this year. |
Gerda Kruger, UCT | Cape Times |
| 20 Feb |
Soekoe, ye shall find I feel , as a graduate of UCT medical school, I should express my opinion concerning the anticipated response to the case of Ms Soekoe and her non-admission to UCT medical school |
Dr Peter Roos, Pinelands | Cape Times |
| 16 Feb |
Race is big factor Executive director for Communications and Marketing at UCT, Gerda Kruger, states that "there were other candidates who had better scores |
K Basson | Cape Times |
| 15 Feb |
Applicant's choice THE article "After being rejected by UCT, city matriculant gets into Yale University" (February 13) refers. |
Gerda Kruger, UCT | Cape Times |
| 14 Feb |
UCT deserves praise for tackling wrongs of past Mr J Buchanan and Mr AJ Wienburg, who blame UCT for practising discrimination in their admissions policy, are misguided. |
A Ismail, Hanover Park. | Cape Argus |
| 13 Feb |
After being rejected by UCT, city matriculant gets into Yale University A Camps Bay matriculant has been denied entry to UCT's medical programme but accepted to study at the prestigious Yale University in Connecticut. |
Michelle Jones | Cape Times |
| 10 Feb |
Discrimination against white students unjust The public debate between Max Price, vice-chancellor of UCT, and John Buchanan is nauseating, being based on whether blacks are intellectually inferior to whites or not. |
Arthur J Wienburg | Cape Argus |
| 7 Feb |
Bias will help whites more than blacks Vice Chancellor Max Price's opinion piece "Why black students merit bias at UCT" says it all. |
John Buchanan | Cape Argus |
| 7 Feb |
UCT system: elite black students' double benefit Philosopher Karl Popper illustrated that one black swan falsifies the hypothesis that all swans are white. |
Thomas Johnson | Cape Argus |
| 7 Feb |
Real problem is after admission Max Price ("Why black student merits bias at UCT") makes a compelling argument as to the necessity of an affirmative action admissions policy. |
UCT graduate | Cape Argus |
| 2 Feb |
Why black students merit bias at UCT John Buchanan ("Explain this to students", Cape Argus, January 26) misreads what I had said and ends up restating my argument. |
Dr Max Price | Cape Argus |
| 2 Feb |
Racial antidote to apartheid poison has unwanted side effects 'Target' system: the University of Cape Town's race-aware admissions policy has caused controversy; with one professor saying that it was 'an insult to believe that I am disadvantaged because of the colour of my skin'. |
Dan Newling | The Times Higher Education (THE) |
