National Students Financial Aid Scheme

A new student allowance payment mechanism for universities and colleges will be fully developed by September 2024

Wits sent students notices stating that they were liable for tuition, allowance and accommodation costs for 2020. The bombshell was dropped on the students in the last week of…

AG Kimi Makwetu’s ‘real-time’ audit of contracts and relief schemes indicate ‘a higher risk of fraud and abuse of funds’

Those at historically disadvantaged universities feel abandoned while their peers at richer institutions continue with their studies

We need a NSFAS that is run effectively and efficiently to serve poor and working class young people who want to change their lives through education.

Universities and vocational colleges have the responsibility of protecting graduates’ futures

A lack of policy coherence, course differentiation, and institutional capacity hinders these institutions

With private security keeping watch, the university and SRC seem to be working towards a compromise on student debt

The financial scheme assisting those in higher learning institutions says it is ready for the year ahead, but many don’t know that they qualify

One staff member was arrested last month for fraud amounting to just over R30 0000

Sars executive brought in experts to sort out the shambles he found institute in

The student was injured during protests at DUT Steve Biko campus and later died in hospital

The budget is expected to increase next year to R32-billion to fund about 400 920 TVET students and 377 050 university students

The 2019 election marks the first time that young people will constitute the highest number of voters in South Africa, giving them plenty of power

On Friday, Zwane, the CEO of NSFAS, resigned on the first day of his disciplinary hearing