Student funding from the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) can go a long way in ensuring that prospective students manage to complete their studies.
This can be at any of the country’s public higher learning institutions.
There are currently a total of 50 public TVET colleges in South Africa with more than 200 hundred campuses nationwide. All of them allow qualifying students the opportunity to apply for student funding through NSFAS. The bursary scheme funds TVET College students by providing a bursary for fees as well as other allowances.
TVET programmes that NSFAS funds include those listed below:
- Engineering Studies: National Certificate -Vocational NQF levels 2-4 Report 191 N1-N6
- Engineering and Related Design; Electrical Infrastructure; Civil Engineering Construction; Information Technology & Computer Science
- Business & Utility Studies National Certificate – Vocational NQF levels 2-4 Report 191 N1-N6
- Management; Marketing; Finance; Office Administration; Economics & Accounting; Education & Development; Hospitality; Tourism; Safety in Society and Transport & Logistics
- Pre-Learning Programme (PLP) funding through NSFAS
TVET colleges focus on providing students with vocational and occupational education and training to prepare them to become functional workers in a skilled trade. Students must meet the requirements listed below in order to qualify for funding:
- Must be a South African citizen
- Must be registered or intending to register on a PLP, NC(V) or Report 191 programme at any of the fifty (50) public TVET Colleges in South Africa
- Must be in need of financial assistance
- Should you be a returning student, you must demonstrate proven and accepted academic performance in line with the College’s progression policy or the progression prescriptions of the Bursary Rules and Guidelines (whichever is higher)
- Must not be enrolling for a qualification that duplicates previous learning that was state-funded
- Household income is less than R350,000 per year
Students can apply online, at the NSFAS head office or at the bursary office of the TVET College they wish to attend.
