Minister of higher education details student funding in wake of Wits tragedy
Cabinet agreed to a comprehensive review of the student funding policy.
Minister of Higher Education Blade Nzimande on Thursday 11 March 2021 addressed the media with regards to National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) funding and rising student debts.
The Cabinet met on Wednesday and discussed the matter of the funding shortfall at NSFAS. Nzimande said government remains committed to support deserving students with access to higher education.
Breakdown of higher education funding
Cabinet agreed to a comprehensive review of the student funding policy and will be looking carefully “at the funding requirements to support students in financial need in the post-school education and training system”.
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Today, we are gathered here to announce the 2020 National Senior Certificate (NSC) examination results. We are announcing these results in the context of what the NDP 2030, enjoins us to do, that “by 2030, South Africans should have access to education and training of the highest quality, leading to significantly improved learner outcomes. The performance of South African learners in international standardised tests, should be comparable to the performance of learners from countries at a similar level of development and with similar levels of access”.
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It is without doubt that the 2020 academic year, will be remembered as the year that, not only presented major health challenges, but a year when the entire world was engulfed by the by the novel COVID-19 pandemic. Government, with its education departments and its strategic partners, worked very hard to strike a balance between saving lives and the 2020
MATRIC PASS RATE DROPS BY 5.1% Kgomotso Medupe and Ntebatse Masipa 22 February 2021 Basic education Minister Angie Motshekga .
THE 2020 matric pass rate has dropped to 76.2%, a 5.1% decrease from 81,3% in 2019.
This was announced by Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga at her offices in Tshwane on Monday.
She announced that the Free State is the highest performing province with an 85.1% pass rate.
It is followed by Gauteng as the second best performing province at 83.3%, with six out of the 10 best-performing districts from Gauteng, said Motshekga.
The Western Cape came third with a 79.9% pass rate, followed by KZN with 77,6%.
North West took fifth position with 76.2%, followed by Mpumalanga with a 73.7% pass rate.
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