The Ikusasa Student Financial Aid Programme (ISFAP) is a Support and Funding model for financially needy students that fall under the categories of "poor" and "missing middle" students.
These financially needy students are in a position where they do not qualify for NSFAS but are not able to fund their studies themselves.
The bursary covers
- Tuition fees
- Accommodation
- Food
- Learning materials (calculator, textbooks, learning material)
- Living allowance/pocket money
- Non-academic student support (project manager; tutorial support; life support; admin support; life skills training; staff mentors).
The qualifying criteria
- A household means test is done for all applying student
- Academic criteria and registration, which vary per institution but will include:
- A National Benchmarking Test for some institutions (academic and behavioural strength)
- Matric results
- Funder constraints (that meet individual funder objectives) will be applied to students applying
ISFAP was created in 2016 to assist students that require funding to be successful in a tertiary institution and that are too rich to be funded by NSFAS.
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