Damelin student: 'No choice but to stay and sink with them or make another plan'

JOHANNESBURG - Students at private college Damelin have weighed in on how they feel after the institution was deregistered by the Higher Education Department.

The institution is among four colleges that have been ordered to stop operating for failing to comply with the department’s regulations.

READ: What now for students? Higher Education department deregisters Damelin, City Varsity and Lyceum colleges

Affected students told Eyewitness News that it's unfair that they’ve been left to suffer due to the institution’s failure to get its ducks in a row.

"It’s a bit stressful and we have been given no choice but to stay and sink with them or we find another plan," a Braamfontein student said.

She is a second-year media and graphic design student at Damelin and said her dreams were now in jeopardy.

She described how excited she was to start the 2024 academic year, and how the deregistration of her school had left her in agony. 

"I really do think that it’s so unfair on the parents that are sending their kids to school and your child is going to school and spending tens of thousands [of rands]."

The students have lambasted Damelin for prioritising profits instead of improving the quality of education it offers.