FINANCIAL AID PRACTITIONERS
Financial aid body warns of student funding disaster
Financial Aid Practitioners of SA warns of more protests as student funding payments fail to keep up
The Financial Aid Practitioners of SA (Fapsa) warns of further unrest and protest at tertiary campuses countrywide if the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) does not sort out its payment issues to institutions and students. This came after Fapsa, an umbrella body of all the financial aid practitioners representing higher and further education and training colleges, held a meeting with interested parties last week following complaints from students and institutions. Pontsho Mosoeu, Fapsa’s secretary-general, said the NSFAS had failed to deal with payment issues despite the body having met the student funder earlier in 2017. "Promises were made but nothing has been done to date," Mosoeu said. "If we don’t attend to these issues, we may face a disaster in 2018." Interested parties stressed that a number of institutions were owed millions of rand for the 2016 academic year. Fapsa said some institutions disagreed with the current tranche payments by the NSFAS. Members said it ...
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