Increasing student aid includes rethinking curriculums
The gazette proposes a “blueprint” for funding the full costs of study for the very poor, the poor and the missing middle.
NSFAS
Letters to the editor: January 6 to 12 2017
Readers write about report card missteps and the Ikusasa Student Financial Aid Programme
Student aid funding scheme may have a new future
A new university fees scheme proposes a government and private sector partnership.
Hope can calm student ‘tantrums’
The protesters’ frustrations are not unwarranted and a government commitment is required.
Are student loans the only answer?
Fee-free higher education could cost as much as an additional R71-billion a year
Blade Nzimande’s R1bn varsity debt
Institutions enrolled students in good faith as they awaited funding — which has yet to materialise.
Sars tracks down student loan defaulter who owes R217 496
Senior government staff and company directors are a significant portion of those who have not repaid their loans.
Can Sizwe Nxasana change the fortunes of NSFAS?
Blade Nzimande has appointed the outgoing FirstRand chief executive to chair the board of the struggling student bursary scheme for four years.
Blade’s office tells student protestors to march on the JSE
Students marching on Blade Nzimande’s office in protest at the cost of university education are told they should instead be targeting big business.
NSFAS protests: ‘The only solution is free education’
Protesting students say that NSFAS has reached its sell-by date and the only option now is free education and cancelling student debt.
When learning’s door gets bolted for students
Government, state agencies and universities must urgently solve the dire shortage of funding for students.
Students outraged at drying-up NSFAS funds
The student representative council of TUT is demanding that government make a loan to international development banks to bail out indebted students.
Nzimande lambasted over lack of funds for poor 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.
Zuma appeals to private sector to fund poor students
The private sector needs to help government in giving poor students access to tertiary education, President Jacob Zuma said at a talk at Wits.
TUT to re-open following protest action
Student leaders and management reach agreement on the funding crisis that sparked violent protest action at the Tshwane University of Technology.
Nzimande condemns violent TUT protests
Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande has condemned violent protests at the TUT, after students destroyed and vandalised campus over funding.
TUT suspends student council over NSFAS protests
The Tshwane University of Technology’s student representative council has been suspended following protests over NSFAS funding deficits.
Budget: Increase in bursary funds may avert more student protests
Treasury will increase funds to the National Student Financial Aid Scheme, which is likely to help more than 500 000 students per year.
TUT campuses to reopen after protests
The protest-hit Tshwane University of Technology will reopen its campuses this week, following student protests over a shortfall of NSFAS money.
TUT to remain closed
The Tshwane Unversity of Technology will remain closed pending an interderdict related to the evictions of students from residences.
TUT gets court order to stop protests
The Tshwane University of Technology has obtained a court order stopping protests at its campuses, after it had to be shut down.
Twenty UJ students suspended after NSFAS protest
Twenty University of Johannesburg students have been suspended after protests over a shortage of funds from the National Student Financial Aid Scheme.
DUT suspends lectures after student protests
Lectures at the Durban University of Technology have been suspended until further notice after protesting students disrupted classes.
Protests erupt at DUT over NSFAS nonpayment
Lectures have been disrupted at the DUT as NSFAS students are demanding they be re-registered even though their fees have not been paid.
Sasco calls for mass student protests
The SA Students Congress has called for mass student protests over the national financial aid scheme’s lack of funds, and registration.
Axed student financial aid chief cries foul
Legal action launched this week against the state’s NSFAS.
There’s always a price to pay
The government has high hopes for free tertiary education, but are they realistic asks <b>Junita Kloppers-Lourens</b>.
No image available
UniZulu students want classes again
Student representatives at the strife-torn University of Zululand are hopeful that academic activity will resume at the institution on Wednesday.
Quick fix for training colleges raises alarm
Can the further education and training system cope with sudden expansion?
No image available
NSFAS board to be restructured
The board of the state’s controversially underperforming student-financing body, NSFAS, will be "restructured", Parliament heard last week.
Cloud over new student loan plans
Auditor general slams student financial aid scheme that will manage new R1,5-billion allocation.
No image available
Tertiary fee pledges a step towards free education
Neither the ANC nor the government has any time frame in mind for the implementation of the goal of free education.
