Memorandum from the Parliamentary Office
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
FOR WRITTEN REPLY
QUESTION 1165
DATE OF PUBLICATION OF INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER: 22/04/2016
(INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER 12 OF 2016)
Prof B Bozzoli (DA) to ask the Minister of Higher Education and
Training:
What plans and mechanisms does the National Student Financial Aid
Scheme have in place for properly analysing (a) success and (b)
failure rates amongst students who are recipients of funding from the
specified scheme?
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REPLY:
NSFAS does not hold a complete data set on dropouts, and is currently
augmenting this data from data sources such as the Higher Education
Management Information System. The Department, in collaboration with NSFAS,
is currently in the process of conducting a full cohort study of NSFAS
funded students, looking at cohorts of students from 2005 through to 2014.
It is expected that the results from this study will be finalised by the
end of June 2016.
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DIRECTOR â GENERAL
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QUESTION 1165 APPROVED/NOT APPROVED/AMENDED
Dr BE NZIMANDE, MP
MINISTER OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND TRAINING
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