CRITICAL SKILLS CRISIS
THE new academic year is about to resume amid great uncertainty within higher education, particularly with regard to student funding.
As I write, the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) is sitting with a backlog of unpaid allowances for students who studied in 2023.
Although the NSFAS board has promised to resolve the backlog, there is one more problem.
The increasing number of students at South African universities and in Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) colleges,
