- Title
- The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) and its impact: Exploring the absorption into employment of NSFAS-funded graduates
- Creator
- Wildschut, Angelique
- Creator
- Mncwango, Bongiwe
- Creator
- Rogan, Michael
- Creator
- Rust, Jennifer
- Creator
- Fongwa, Samuel
- Creator
- Meiring, Leana
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date Issued
- 2018
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- text
- Type
- book
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/478062
- Identifier
- vital:78151
- Identifier
- ISBN
- Description
- The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) was formally established as an income contingent student loan and bursary scheme in 1999, focusing on: redressing past discrimination; promoting equal access and representivity in higher education participation; responding to the human resource development needs of the nation; and establishing a funding scheme that is affordable and sustainable. Both in terms of the size of funding support (R12.4 billion in 2016/17) and the number of students reached (451 507 students in 2016/17), NSFAS is a core public funding mechanism. A growing body of literature also suggests that NSFAS funding has impacted positively on student access, progression and success in post-school education and training (PSET) (De Villiers et al, 2006, 2013; National Treasury PER Cohort Study, 2016; DHET, 2016). NSFAS is now concerned to assess and demonstrate beyond the academic outcomes, the patterns, of labour market participation of its beneficiaries. In early 2017 NSFAS thus commissioned the Education and Skills Development (ESD) research programme of the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) to analyse patterns of labour market absorption amongst NSFAS-funded graduates over a ten-year period (2005 – 2015).
- Format
- 59 pages
- Format
- Publisher
- HSRC
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Wildschut, A., Mncwango, B., Rogan, M., Rust, J., Fongwa, S. and Meiring, L., 2018. The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) and its impact: Exploring the absorption into employment of NSFAS-funded graduates
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