Tertiary Education

Walter Sisulu students spend the night in jail after NSFAS protest

University says it is NSFAS’s responsibility to resolve the issue with students

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Brief | 12 October 2023

Parliament unimpressed by NSFAS’s turnaround plan

Student funding scheme given seven working days to answer portfolio committee’s questions

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News | 5 October 2023

NSFAS and Blade Nzimande snub Parliament hearing on student funding failures

The portfolio committee will issue a summons if NSFAS and the minister fail to attend the next meeting

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News | 20 September 2023

CPUT agrees to increase payment to private residence after students locked out

This is despite the owner of 210 Long Street not meeting all NSFAS requirements of a fully accredited accommodation.

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News | 18 September 2023

Parliament grills NSFAS over student funding failures

The scheme has had more than 170,000 appeals from students about allowance payments

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News | 7 September 2023

Leadership and governance in crisis at our universities, Parliament told

Concerns about maladministration, assassination attempts, academic malpractice, and the state of the National Student Financial Aid Scheme were raised

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News | 31 August 2023

South Africa must fix its academic incentives, or other universities may meet the same fate as UNISA

Paying the same amount for every published article encourages low-quality paper-mills

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Opinion | 29 August 2023

Students fear being evicted again if NSFAS payment issues not resolved

“My family is over 1,500 kilometres away in the Free State and I don’t really have anyone in Cape Town that I can go live with if we are evicted again,” she says.

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News | 18 August 2023

Students march to Parliament in protest against new NSFAS system

Many students say they have not received their allowances

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News | 16 August 2023