Parliament, Tuesday, 21 August 2024 – The Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and Training has today received a briefing from the student scheme on progress in resolving payments to private accommodation and resolving outstanding student appeals where the administrator at the National Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) has laid bare what he called unavoidable risks posed by the rise in the emergence of private student accommodation in post-school education sector.| www.parliament.gov.za
The acting NSFAS CEO admits there is an ongoing investigation into potentially shady tender deals with 4 student accommodation middlemen.| Hypertext
The new chair of the NSFAS board of directors says in investigation will identify "funding misalignments" at the scheme.| Hypertext
NSFAS needs to urgently update its ICT systems, says Parliament, or face a terrible cyberattack on its data.| Hypertext