A drying up of financial aid and a hike in fees has left Fort Hare students desperate – and hungry.
The National Student Financial Aid Scheme can’t carry the burden alone, so the portfolio committee on higher education wants business to pitch in.
Serious problems in system leave hundreds of thousands of eligible applicants empty-handed.
The budget allocated to the National Student Financial Aid Scheme shows government will be dealing with the funding problem for poor students soon.
Higher education funding crisis set to stoke fires at campuses again in 2015.
"Uncle Gweezy" has been asked why SA should vote ANC by students who raised Nkandla, access to electricity and education as concerns with government.
Revamping vocational training will achieve little in rural areas unless it is linked to job creation.
Too many students have to make do with poor academic staff and infrastructural inadequacies.
Treasury will increase funds to the National Student Financial Aid Scheme, which is likely to help more than 500 000 students per year.
Leaders say they will take the Tshwane University of Technology’s management to court after students were evicted from residences for protests.
Students at several universities are protesting over the shortage of National Student Financial Aid Scheme funds.
Mystery surrounds the public funding agency’s reasons for suspending its chief executive.
Pravin Gordhan sticks to his guns and gives education the biggest portion of the national budget.
Although the challenges at the Durban University of Technology aren’t what he was expecting, new vice-chancellor Ahmed Bawa swears he’s up to the job.
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/ 31 January 2011
The board of the state’s controversially underperforming student-financing body, NSFAS, will be "restructured", Parliament heard last week.