Lerato Botha

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lerato bothaLerato is a student studying towards a Bachelor of Arts degree with majors in English Language and Literature and Gender Studies at the University of Cape Town.

Lerato previously held the position of Editor-in-Chief at Varsity Newspaper, the University of Cape Town's student newspaper.

Her passion for writing has been one that she has developed since her years in Primary School. Despite being a child of big dreams who wanted to try everything from being a lawyer, to a designer, to a therapist, Lerato always came back to writing as her desired career. News, Features and Opinions are three of her favourite topics to write for.

Connect with Lerato on LinkedIn.

Articles by Lerato:

The National Benchmark Test (NBT) can prove essential to the outcome of your application to a university, and since the pandemic began, the exam has been written online more frequently. The following outlines the rules and requirements of the online NBT exam.

The Fundi student loan option has been a saving grace for students who have lucked out on options for tertiary school funding. However, there are still a few necessities that a student will have to produce with their loan application to be considered for funding.
 

The Gauteng City Region Academy (GCRA) continues to strive to contribute to promoting skills development in South Africa through many supportive means, including issuing bursaries to deserving students. The bursaries issued cover a number of tertiary student needs.

The Gauteng City Region Academy (GCRA) is a branch that aims to promote skills development in Gauteng. Keeping with this pursuit, the GCRA has a bursary fund for university students, and there are a number of requirements to be met to qualify for their bursary programme.

The Multichoice Bursary Scheme provides an alternative funding method for close to 200 students each year since the scheme began. Here is everything that a potential applicant would need to know about the bursary.

The prospect of potentially failing, or not completing matric is one that many high school students grapple with, and under these circumstances, it is natural for students to search for alternative, quicker methods of passing their matric. These include searching for programmes that could help one complete their matric in less than a year to make up for lost time.  
 

The Sector Education and Training Authority (SETA) bursaries are an attempt by government to increase the number of university graduates in areas that require critical skills discipline. The following reveals all necessary information about these bursaries.
 

Student loans from recognised banks have become an essential part of achieving tertiary funding for many students. To apply for such education loans, there are a number of things that students would have to provide along with their applications.

Capitec has made student education funding much easier with their credit-for-education option that presents as a student loan. Nonetheless, students can still take out personal loans and are not limited to just an educational loan option.

Since there are limited resources for private college funding, it is important that students do extensive research in order to find the few private college bursaries available that best suit their study pursuits. Although not reflective of all the private college bursary options made available in the country, the following provides a very short list of private college bursaries for teaching and education qualifications specifically.

The University of South Africa (Unisa) is one of many public universities that receive government funding aid in the form of the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) to fund students’ teaching qualifications. However, apart from NSFAS, there are a number of other bursary options for teaching available for Unisa students.

Education bursaries for Gauteng-based students can be hard to come by if one does not have the right resources to search for them. As such, here is a helpful list of information about Gauteng education bursaries for students’ consideration

The South African government has a number of Sector Education and Training Authority (Seta) programmes that are aimed towards skills development. A part of their efforts towards skills development includes issuing student bursaries, but these bursaries have application requirements to be met before they are issued to students.

Motivation letters are an integral part of a bursary application as it allows insight into the student applying for the bursary and their motivations for doing so. As such, it is important that an applicant know the fundamentals of compiling a bursary motivation letter.
 

Capitec bank’s Credit-for-Education has proven a useful alternative student loan option for students who need it. However, the loan option only works for a select set of institutions, and therefore has a number of different means of application according to the different partner institutions.
 

With tertiary schooling in the health field being as costly as it is, a number of organisations, including government, have made bursary funds available to aid prospective health sciences students. Among these bursary options are nursing bursaries available for students in the Gauteng province.

Now, more than ever, there has been a growing need for more young professionals in health and medical fields. For young students in Gauteng who want to pursue this career but are not in a position to fund this passion, there are a number of bursary options available to support these pursuits.

When applying for a bursary, a student needs to ensure that, apart from meeting all the requirements for bursary eligibility, they also have the necessary information and documents that need to be attached to their application. Here are the general documents and personal information that are typically expected to accompany a bursary application.

Applying for student loans can be difficult, especially during a time where things are made to be heavily reliant on the internet and digital devices. Luckily for students looking to apply for a Nedbank student loan, they have laid their application process out in an easy, step by step manner.

South Africa has a number of Sector Education and Training Authority (Seta) branches dedicated to a number of sectors. The Seta also offers bursaries for students who would like to enter careers that correlate to their Seta bursary type, including one for the accounting field.


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