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Report lifts lid on financial aid scheme

mydreamcourse — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:37:28 +0000

The Department of Higher Education could soon instruct the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) to stop deducting money from past beneficiaries of the scheme without their consent. Currently past students who owe NSFAS and who are now working are having their salaries deducted by employers without their consent and the money is paid straight …

New directions for higher education in South Africa

mydreamcourse — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:00:35 +0000

One of Dr Blade Nzimande’s first moves as South Africa’s new Minister of Higher Education and Training was to institute a review of the National Student Financial Aid Scheme, a step that heralded his concern with ongoing inequalities in the system and his intention to widen access to higher education for the country’s poorest, mainly …