1. With regard to the objectives and purposes of the Skills Development Act, Act 97 of 1998, what total amount has been paid by employers in skills development levies since the inception of the Skills Development Levy, National Skills Fund (NSF) and the implementation of the specified Act;
Employers have the direct relationship through the mandatory grant process. The NSF as a catalytic funder ...
The Department does not oversee the operations of service providers appointed by NSFAS, this is the role of senior management. NSFAS has advised that as per their agreements with service providers, they provide on boarding files to all partners in anticipation of the agreed upon monthly payment dates. A NSFAS payment file follows, after all partners have confirmed that students have been on boarded. ...
More »a) The NSFAS Board is currently undergoing legal processes related to the cancellation of these contracts. Contracts will be cancelled upon completion of this process.
b) In terms of the agreed upon process, the partners do not hold on to NSFAS funds in the partners bank accounts; funds are paid into students individual NSFAS bank accounts and these funds are immediately available to students ...
NSFAS is currently still processing applications based on financial eligibility of a combined family income in the range of R351 000 to R600 000. Academic institutions will assist in establishing academic eligibility (e.g. STEM vs Humanities programmes and the 70:30 split respectively).
Once both requirements of financial and academic eligibility are satisfied, NSFAS will share the loan agreement forms and associated documents for each ...
(1) The total number of beds that have been accredited by NSFAS is 83 750.
(2) NSFAS has paid accreditation agents for whom invoices have been validated and approved. The total paid to date for 2023 accreditation amounts to R1, 575,740.
The act of taking leave of absence in the face of malicious allegations is usually exercised as an ethical step to allow a formal disciplinary process to proceed without any prejudice or hindrance, by an implicated party. As it relates to NSFAS, I have never been subjected to any disciplinary process or investigation and as such, the requirement of leave of absence doesn’t arise.
More »(a) what actions has he taken in the wake of the allegations,
On 10 January 2024 the NSFAS Board Chairperson, Mr Ernest Khosa informed the Board of his decision to take a leave of absence, and the Board, at the same meeting on 10 January 2024, decided to appoint an independent legal service provider to advise on the appropriate course of action. The firm ...
1. (a) 131 528 applications have been rejected for the 2024 academic year. Their status remains at rejected.
(b) The applications were rejected due to not meeting either the financial or academic eligibility criteria.
2. (a) NSFAS has received 1495 appeals to date.
(b) NSFAS has not started working on the appeals yet. NSFAS applications closed on 15 February 2024. The team has been ...
The Department is not in a position to share current (2024) enrolment data as the data has not been validated and audited at the university level. Ordinarily university audits are completed around July, Audited Disability enrolment stats have been disaggregated by race and gender in the table below. Unfortunately, DHET does not categorise student data in terms of the faculty they are located in. ...
(a) The R3.8 billion funding will be sourced from the National Skills Fund (NSF) and the Sector Education and Training Authority (SETA), with the NSF contributing R1.5 billion and the SETA offering R2.5 billion in 2024. The transfers will be subject to NSFAS meeting certain conditions, including improved controls and processes.
(b) 31 884 students will be funded over a period of 4 ...