The Department does not keep records of detailed expenditure information for universities or Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges. This information is not included in the annual reports submitted to the Department.
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DIRECTOR – GENERAL
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QUESTION 1633 APPROVED/NOT APPROVED/AMENDED
Dr BE NZIMANDE, MP
MINISTER OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND TRAINING
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(a) Against the strategic goal of building institutional capacity in the Community Education and Training (CET) system, the Department took a decision to rationalize the CET institutional landscape in the interest of efficiency, effective service delivery and economic use of the limited resources. In order to guide the process of rationalization, the CET College System: National Plan for the Implementation of the White Paper ...
The latest audited and verified data is for the 2017 academic year and the information is provided in the tables below.
Number of students enrolled in public higher education institutions, by qualification type and institution in 2017:
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Postgraduate Qualifications |
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Cape Peninsula University of Technology |
140 |
32 426 |
2 136 |
34 702 |
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University of Cape Town ... |
(1)With reference to her media statement issued on 15 February 2019 in which she stated that the Student Housing Infrastructure Programme is working on a range of partnerships to provide an additional 100 000 beds for accommodation of students of public technical and vocational education and training colleges over the next 10 years, what (a) progress has already been achieved in this regard and ...
More »The Department does not collect information on the number of counsellors employed by institutions of higher learning. The Department has requested institutions to provide information on the number of counsellors employed at their various campus clinics/counselling centres. This will take some time to compile, and as soon as the data is available, the information will be provided.
More »The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) provided responses to the questions posed.
a) Number of 2019 applications for funding: 555 708.
b) The breakdown of applications and approved applications (funding eligible) per institution are attached as Annexure A.
(i) Number of approved 2019 applications: 445 054.
(ii) Number of students allocated funding: 433 516.
Annexure A
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2019 APPLICATIONS FOR NSFAS FUNDING |
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a) The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) has appointed forensic investigators and investigations are currently underway.
b) Appropriate action will be taken once the investigations have been completed.
(1)What number of meetings has the National Qualifications Forum held (a) in each of the past eight calendar years and (b) since 1 January 2019; (2) whether, with reference to her reply to question 2829 on 21 November 2018, she has found that the lack of activity of the National Qualifications Forum is a matter of concern since the National Qualifications Forum is deemed ...
More »What was the total number of graduates for each degree and diploma at each university in each of the past 25 years?
More »(1)Whether, with reference to her reply to question 2633 on 17 October 2018, she is now in a position to indicate whether her department's higher education language policy, of which the concept was published in the Government Gazette of 23 February 2018, has already been finalised; if not, what (a) processes are still outstanding and (b) is the timeframe for finalisation; if so, by ...
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