nsfas offices 2024-2025
nsfas offices 2024-2025
NSFAS is synonymous with the march of progress in Southern Africa, particularly in facilitating tertiary education access for those whose socioeconomic circumstances would otherwise prevent them from leaving their poor and working-class environments.
The Department of Higher Education estimates anticipates a 10% increase in the number of NSFAS applicants year-over-year.
This indicates that once confirmed, the 2024 application window could see over a million potential students applying for NSFAS funding, up from 906 429 applications in 2023.
However, despite this, when 280 000 NSFAS applications were rejected, a significant number of those students were left in the dark. NSFAS CEO Andile Nongogo attributed the high number of rejections to system issues, a cumbersome appeals process, and an R10 billion budget shortfall for NSFAS.
Knowing where the nearest physical NSFAS office is can assist you in the appeals process, which is the subject of this article. Technical systems still require a significant amount of work before they are optimized for the high number of applicants.
Where are NSFAS offices located?
- The Covid-19 pandemic, which began in 2020, has emphasized how important it is to streamline NSFAS registrations and student applications by creating online portals that can replace in-person registration. Despite efforts to completely digitize the registration and application details of the bursary schemes, system issues such as technical outages have been cited as contributing to the high number of rejections and delays experienced by the majority of prospective students when attempting to use the system.
This is why it can be so crucial to know where the actual NSFAS offices are, especially in the case of appeals.There are currently fifteen NSFAS offices scattered across South Africa’s major metropolitan areas; Johannesburg, Soweto, Tshwane, eMalahleni, Thulamela, Secunda, Rustenburg, Port Elizabeth, Polokwane, Mbombela, Kimberley, East London, Durban, Cape Town, and Bloemfontein are among these cities.However, in the event that there is no NSFAS office in the area where you live, you can always visit the local NYDA, which serves as a temporary substitute for any NSFAS office.
NOTE. For more details, applicants can download THE NSFAS ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA AND CONDITIONS FOR FINANCIAL AID HERE.
FOR ANY INFORMATION ON PAYMENT OR RECEIVING OF MONEY PLEASE GO TO THE NSFAS MAIN WEBSITE BY CLICKING HERE OR CALL THEM DIRECTLY ON
Tel No.: 08000 67327
Email: info@nsfas.org.za
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