Original sentence: A very controversial and contentious issue is the fact that the university offers bursaries to black and English-speaking prosprective students while assuring them that their tution will be in English.At postgraduate level the language of tuition is determined by the composition of the class.However, students are allowed to write their assignments, tests and examinations in English.Most other institutions have always been English or have changed over to an English-only policy.Stellenbosch University is a predominantly Afrikaans medium university, especially at undergraduate and honours course level.Stellenbosch is also under enormous pressure from the government and other interest groups to become English-only.The majority of advanced postgraduate courses are conducted in English.These students then arrive at the university to find that the classes in most faculties are still almost exclusively Afrikaans.They then have to stay on, with a large percentage failing their first year.This is a result of Afrikaans being perceived as the language of Apartheid.This is still an ongoing issue for the University, since it is one of the very few tertiary institutions left in South Africa offering tuition in Afrikaans
Edited sentence: Afrikaans is by default the language of learning and teaching at undergraduate level, while English is used to a greater extent at the postgraduate level;.All three languages are used, where possible, for external communication.At the same time, it takes account of the status of English as an international language of communication and of isiXhosa as an emerging academic language.Language is used at the University in a manner that is directed towards its engagement with knowledge in a diverse society.The University acknowledges the special status of Afrikaans as an academic language and accepts the responsibility to promote it.The University creates opportunites for students and staff to acquire communication skills in isiXhosa.The University distinguishes between the use of the three languages in the following manner:.The University is committed to the use and sustained development of Afrikaans as an academic language in a multilingual context.The institutional language of the University is, by default, Afrikaans, while English is also used, depending on the circumstances, as an internal language of communication.isiXhosa is promoted as an emerging academic language