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NSFAS NWU Online Application 2024/2025
Allowances for contact and distance university students
Dear NWU student
The new guidelines for the Department of Higher Education and Training Bursary Scheme (NSFAS) for students at public universities for 2024 was received by universities on 11 December 2024.
Significant changes were made especially to the accommodation policy regarding non accredited accommodation. You are urgently requested to acquaint yourself with these.
The allowances for 2024 as extracted from the guideline document are as follows;
Allowances for contact and distance university students
The table below provides an indication of which allowances are applicable to different categories of accommodation for contact students.
Accommodation Type | ||||
Allowance type | ||||
Learning Materials | Living Allowance | Accommodation | Transport | |
University managed catering | X | X2 | X3 | |
University managed self-catering | X | X | X3 | |
Living off campus in family or non- accredited accommodation (own arrangements) | X | X | X | |
Private off campus accredited accommodation | X | X | X (with lease agreement) |
Living allowance for contact university students in residences or accredited private accommodation
- This applies to contact university students in university owned or managed residences or accredited private residences.
- A living allowance will be provided directly to all DHET bursary recipients at universities not accommodated in catering residences, to cover food andincidental expenses. In 2024, this allowance will be R15 000. All NSFAS bursary/grant recipients at universities qualify for this allowance, subject to the funding cap for returning students registered for the first time prior to 2018.
Accommodation and travel allowances for contact university students
- The management of access to and allocation of accommodation and travel allowances must be managed according to the institutions’ own criteria set by the financial aid committee.
- Students living in university accommodation qualify for the actual costs of the accommodation charged by the institution.
- Students living in university-managed off campus accommodation also receive the actual costs of accommodation, limited to the maximum cost of equivalent university owned on-campus accommodation at a particular institution. It is assumed that transport costs are included in the costs of this accommodation.
- In general, qualifying students whose home address is close to a university campus, or those who choose to make their own accommodation arrangements, would not be considered for an award for an accommodation allowance. These students qualify for a travel allowance determined by the institution, up to a maximum of R7 500 in 2024 as well as the living allowance of R15 000.
- University students living in private leased accommodation can qualify for an accommodation allowance if they are accommodated in university accredited accommodation. As with 2024, the maximum allowance for external accommodation is capped at the cost of internal university accommodation costs for an equivalent accommodation type. Proof of a lease agreement must be provided for a student to qualify.
- Wherever possible, universities should accredit private providers of student accommodation and should monitor the quality of accommodation provision to students living off campus.
- NSFAS students are subject to the student residence and accommodation policies of the university at which they are registered to study.
The complete guidelines for the Department of Higher Education and Training Bursary Scheme for students at Public Universities for 2024 is available here
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