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.
The private sector needs to help government in giving poor students access to tertiary education, President Jacob Zuma said at a talk at Wits.
Student leaders and management reach agreement on the funding crisis that sparked violent protest action at the Tshwane University of Technology.
Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande has condemned violent protests at the TUT, after students destroyed and vandalised campus over funding.
The Tshwane University of Technology’s student representative council has been suspended following protests over NSFAS funding deficits.
Treasury will increase funds to the National Student Financial Aid Scheme, which is likely to help more than 500 000 students per year.
The protest-hit Tshwane University of Technology will reopen its campuses this week, following student protests over a shortfall of NSFAS money.
The Tshwane Unversity of Technology will remain closed pending an interderdict related to the evictions of students from residences.
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.
The SA Students Congress has called for mass student protests over the national financial aid scheme’s lack of funds, and registration.
Legal action launched this week against the state’s NSFAS.
The government has high hopes for free tertiary education, but are they realistic asks <b>Junita Kloppers-Lourens</b>.
Student representatives at the strife-torn University of Zululand are hopeful that academic activity will resume at the institution on Wednesday.
Can the further education and training system cope with sudden expansion?
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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.
Auditor general slams student financial aid scheme that will manage new R1,5-billion allocation.
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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 December 2010
A UCT graduate has written a scathing open letter to HET MInister Blade Nzimande detailing the difficulties he and other black graduates face.
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/ 24 November 2010
University lecturers should themselves be taught how to teach, Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande said on Tuesday.
For many school-leavers, how to finance university study is the first and most challenging question they face.
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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.
Weekend discussions between UWC and NSFAS have left the university "hopeful" that its fees crisis could be resolved before the end of September.
About 20 students at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) have been arrested following fee-related protests on Monday that turned violent.
Students hoping to enrol as first years at the Durban University of Technology next year could be in for a shock: they might not get NSFAS funding.