NSFAS set to give update on higher education sector state of affairs
Following a relative calm registration period, NSFAS will give an update on registration, allowance payments, and accommodation.
FILE: SRC leaders from at least 14 universities picketed outside the NSFAS offices in the Cape Town CBD on 24 May 2023. Picture: Ntuthuzelo Nene/Eyewitness News
JOHANNESBURG - The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) is set to give an update on the state of affairs in the higher education sector, as the registration period officially closed for some universities.
The funding scheme will brief the media on registration, the payment of allowances, and accommodation.
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It has been a relatively calm registration period for institutions of higher learning, with the country seeing less funding-related protests compared to prior years.
To ensure that students met the registration deadline, NSFAS provided universities and colleges with more than R3 billion to cover the cost of registration and allowances for the first month of the academic year.
This is the first briefing that will be held by the scheme's acting board chairperson, Lourens van Staden, after board chair Ernest Khosa took leave of absence amid corruption allegations.
At the end of the 2023 academic year, the embattled funding aid scheme came under fire for failing to pay student allowances timeously.