The Department of Higher Education and Training has identified eight institutions to pilot the Ikusasa (the future) student financial aid programme from next year. The financial aid programme, signed off by the Cabinet in November, is designed to address the funding needs of poor and "missing middle" students — the main driver of the #FeesMustFall protests. "Missing middle" students are those deemed to be from families too wealthy to receive funding from the government’s loan and bursary scheme, the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS), and too poor to pay their own fees. The institutions earmarked for the Ikusasa pilot include the University of Venda, Walter Sisulu University, the University of the Witwatersrand, the University of Cape Town, the University of Pretoria, Tshwane University of Technology, the University of KwaZulu-Natal and ORBIT College. Department spokesman Madikwe Mabotha said on Monday the institutions selected enrolled the majority of poor and "missing m...
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