Probe into fraud at student aid scheme

By Wyndham Hartley. The country’s universities and technical and vocational education and training colleges have been hit by student protests with classes being brought to a halt across the higher education sector. The Tshwane University of Technology, University of Johannesburg and the University of the Witwatersrand have been particularly hard hit.
Central to the protests has been that the National Student Financial Aid Scheme has not provided enough funding for poor students who qualify for funding or bursaries. More...