Unless the middle management at Nelson Mandela University changes, poor, black women students will remain threatened
Steven Zwane is the scheme’s new boss and wants buy-in to support the business of helping students
Readers write in about anti-Semitism, sexism, and corruption
It was confirmed today that a NSFAS recipient was mistakenly paid R14-million instead of the allocated R1 400 for food allowance.
The student had reported it to the university, but had allegedly spent R500 000 of it in the past five months.
Funding models have emerged to address higher education costs
Many students continue to rely on NSFAS for financial support but some believe it is not the best platform
The gazette proposes a “blueprint” for funding the full costs of study for the very poor, the poor and the missing middle.
Readers write about report card missteps and the Ikusasa Student Financial Aid Programme
A new university fees scheme proposes a government and private sector partnership.
Institutions enrolled students in good faith as they awaited funding — which has yet to materialise.
Blade Nzimande has appointed the outgoing FirstRand chief executive to chair the board of the struggling student bursary scheme for four years.
Students marching on Blade Nzimande’s office in protest at the cost of university education are told they should instead be targeting big business.
Protesting students say that NSFAS has reached its sell-by date and the only option now is free education and cancelling student debt.
Government, state agencies and universities must urgently solve the dire shortage of funding for students.
The student representative council of TUT is demanding that government make a loan to international development banks to bail out indebted students.
Wits University’s SRC leader says the state has an obligation to see that the country’s best minds have the opportunity to study.
Student leaders and management reach agreement on the funding crisis that sparked violent protest action at the Tshwane University of Technology.
The Tshwane University of Technology’s student representative council has been suspended following protests over NSFAS funding deficits.
The protest-hit Tshwane University of Technology will reopen its campuses this week, following student protests over a shortfall of NSFAS money.
The Tshwane University of Technology has obtained a court order stopping protests at its campuses, after it had to be shut down.
Twenty University of Johannesburg students have been suspended after protests over a shortage of funds from the National Student Financial Aid Scheme.
Lectures at the Durban University of Technology have been suspended until further notice after protesting students disrupted classes.
Lectures have been disrupted at the DUT as NSFAS students are demanding they be re-registered even though their fees have not been paid.
Legal action launched this week against the state’s NSFAS.
Student representatives at the strife-torn University of Zululand are hopeful that academic activity will resume at the institution on Wednesday.
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/ 14 January 2011
Neither the ANC nor the government has any time frame in mind for the implementation of the goal of free education.
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/ 1 September 2010
UWC has stepped in to assist students affected by an apparent shortfall in funds from the National Students Financial Aid Scheme.