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Report from NSFAS Administrator:
Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and Training Dr Randall Carolissen September 12, 2018 Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and Training
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Education key to address
Accessibility Transparency Affordability Reliability Authenticity Education key to address September 12, 2018 Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and Training Inequality Poverty Unemployment
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Education Lays Foundation for Inclusive and Sustainable Economic Growth
Dissemination and use of Knowledge Maintenance of Knowledge Building of Knowledge Bases Formation of human Capital radio social Media September 12, 2018 Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and Training
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Projected figures – TVET T3 applications have just opened
Projected volumes Forecast – More students will apply as a result of Fee Free higher education Projected figures – TVET T3 applications have just opened Social Media September 12, 2018 Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and Training
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Projected volumes Social Media Forecast based on 2018 budgeted figures
Budgeted – TVET T3 applications have just opened Social Media September 12, 2018 Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and Training
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Dealing with the Burning platform
Although R11bn had been paid as upfront payments to institutions, no remittances were sent as at 31 July This means that institutions could not properly credit students and maintain accounts. In some cases institutions accumulated large cash reserves by end of July 2018. As an interim measure institutions used data generated during the registration period to determine the amount of payments due to students Appeal process in now in process and given priority Securing support of institutional and student leadership Deployment of senior managers to institutions resolve and reconcile accounts Improving access for students Instituting disbursement procedures to adequately deal with risk controls Dealing with low level of motivation Improving data integrity and systems integration Managing shareholder expectations Improved administration of remittances radio September 12, 2018 Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and Training
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Dealing with the Burning platform TVET Colleges
top-up funding relating to allowances. Will release further sub allowance payment unfunded students for variety of reasons being elevated for accuracy unsigned TVET contracts remains serious challenge to disbursing funding to sector Closing off unpaid 2017 TVET requires reconsideration of policy and progress Short turnaround times for funding, especially trimester students Lack of system integration process are manual Lack of financial and office structure Variance in allowance values between TVET and University students Dealing with the Burning platform TVET Colleges radio September 12, 2018 Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and Training
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Current State Analysis
2017/2018 Administration backlog As at August 21 As at September 10 funding decisions for students made 6 357 additional funding decisions made for students who were administratively blocked due to incomplete submissions Previously unaccounted students resulted in additional payments in August 2018 as a result of fieldwork by NSFAS. disbursements processed but most remittances outstanding making it difficult for institutions to pay students This disbursements did not necessarily reach the students. Backlog of remittance reports generated and sent to institutions. New disbursements are accompanied by remittance reports as of August 2018, allowing institutions to unblock allowances to individual students pre-funded students with incorrect bursary values, and wrongly matched with institutions; wrongly funded records matched and are now ready to receive funds students did not receive allowances due to backlog caused by disbursement exception 9 241 students has been unlocked and NSFAS has made disbursements. More cases are being resolved Others social media radio television Social Media
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Payments to sBux institutions
To date for the 2018 academic year NSFAS has disbursed a total of R million to students at sBux institutions TVETs NUMBER OF STUDENTS TOTAL AMOUNT DISBURSED BUFFALO CITY COLLEGE 534 CENTRAL JOHANNESBURG COLLEGE 149 COASTAL KZN FET COLLEGE 1 683 EKURHULENI EAST COLLEGE 3 288 EKURHULENI WEST COLLEGE 8 063 KING HINTSA PUBLIC FET COLLEGE 1 847 MOTHEO FET COLLEGE 3 244 ORBIT FET COLLEGE 2 208 PORT ELIZABETH COLLEGE 1 344 SEDIBENG COLLEGE 1 611 UMFOLOZI COLLEGE 2 411 VHEMBE FET COLLEGE 9 347 TOTAL 35 729 September 12, 2018 Parliament of the Republic of South Africa
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Payments to sBux institutions
To date NSFAS has disbursed a total of R million to students at sBux institutions UNIVERSITIES Total No. Students Total Disbursed Durban University Of Technology 14 275 Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University 11 206 Sol Plaatje University 266 University Of South Africa 42 959 University Of Venda 11 474 TOTAL 80 180 September 12, 2018 Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and Training
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Summary of payments per institution
INSTITUTIONS Upfront Payments over and above upfronts Total paid to date (Cumulative) NMMU ,31 ,22 ,53 CAPETOWN ,19 ,22 ,41 DUT ,56 ,01 ,57 CPUT ,99 ,74 ,73 CUT ,30 ,93 ,23 FORTHARE ,47 ,49 ,96 FREESTATE ,37 ,04 ,41 JHB ,12 ,62 ,74 KZN ,29 ,25 ,54 LIMPOPO ,83 ,25 ,08 MANGOSUTHU ,68 ,20 ,88 MPUMALANGA ,60 ,40 ,00 NORTHWEST ,06 ,44 ,50 PRETORIA ,85 ,22 ,07 RHODES ,26 ,74 ,00 SEFAKOMAKGATHO ,50 ,64 ,14 SOLPLAATJIE ,53 ,82 ,35 STELLENBOSCH ,23 ,77 ,00 TUT ,53 ,80 ,33 UNISA ,52 ,74 ,26 VUT ,03 ,68 ,71 VENDA ,56 ,77 ,33 Walter Sisulu University ,68 ,37 ,05 WESTERN CAPE ,20 ,61 ,81 WITS ,88 ,96 ,84 ZULULAND ,23 ,91 ,14 TOTAL ,77 ,84 ,61 radio
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Summary of payments per university
College Upfront payments Payments over and above upfronts Total paid to date (Cumulative) BOLAND ,71 - ,60 BUFFALOCITY ,46 ,96 ,42 CAPECOLLEGE ,36 ,37 CAPRICORN ,47 ,39 CENTRALJHB ,95 ,85 ,80 COASTALKZN ,27 ,40 ,67 EASTCAPEMID ,06 ,28 EHLAZENI ,45 ,78 EKURHULENIEA ,16 ,33 ,49 EKURHULENIWE ,69 ,64 ,33 ELANGENI ,19 ,73 ESAYIDI ,86 ,58 FALSEBAY ,27 ,55 FLAVIUSMAREK ,46 ,45 GERTSIBANDE ,67 ,67 GOLDFIELDS ,27 ,09 IKHALA ,05 ,74 INGWE ,35 ,35 KINGHINTSA ,30 ,45 ,75 KINGSABATA ,41 ,69 LEPHALALE ,72 ,54 LETABA ,05 ,20 LOVEDALE ,30 ,44 MAJUBA ,70 ,96 MALUTI ,23 ,47 MNAMBITHI ,94 ,50 ,44 MOPANI ,84 ,42 MOTHEO ,92 ,82 ,74 MTHASHANA ,94 ,86 NCRURAL ,19 ,41 NCURBAN ,87 ,87 NKANGALA ,35 ,38 NORTHLINK ,93 ,08 ORBIT ,32 ,06 ,38 PORTELIZABET ,54 ,09 ,63 SEDIBENG ,35 ,26 ,61 SEKHUKHUNE ,01 ,91 SOUTHCAPE ,47 ,84 SOUTHWEST ,88 ,42 TALETSO ,94 ,44 THEKWINI ,57 ,16 ,73 TSHWANE NORTH ,55 ,45 TSHWANE SOUTH ,98 ,45 UMFOLOZI ,12 ,74 ,86 UMGUNGUNDLOV ,86 ,35 ,21 VHEMBE ,91 ,92 ,83 VUSELELA ,39 ,42 WATERBERG ,86 ,23 WESTCOAST ,86 ,35 WESTERNCOLLE ,98 ,82 ,00 ,53 ,12 Summary of payments per university radio
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Summary of backlog Highest unsigned NBAs at institutions (Universities) INSTITUTIONS NBA GENERATED NBA SIGNED NBAS NOT SIGNED % UNSIGNED NBAS CAPE PENINSULA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY 5163 4288 875 17% UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL 9683 8445 1238 13% UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND 3516 3076 440 UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA 4375 3873 502 11% UNIVERSITY OF FORT HARE 2663 2362 301 radio September 12, 2018 Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and Training
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Summary of backlog Highest unsigned NBAs at institutions (TVET Colleges) Institutions NBA Generated NBA SIGNED NBAs Not Signed % Unsigned NBAs NORTHERN CAPE URBAN FET COLLEGE 1574 746 828 53% CENTRAL JOHANNESBURG COLLEGE 2485 1235 1250 50% MNAMBITHI FET COLLEGE 1129 595 534 47% WESTERN COLLEGE 5986 3206 2780 46% NORTHERN CAPE RURAL FET COLLEGE 1770 969 801 45% TSHWANE SOUTH COLLEGE 2385 1327 1058 44% EAST CAPE MIDLANDS 1908 1121 787 41% WEST COAST COLLEGE 2980 1769 1211 EHLANZENI FET COLLEGE 3797 2328 1469 39% COASTAL KZN FET COLLEGE 3115 1912 1203 SEKHUKHUNE FET COLLEGE 2098 1308 790 38% UMGUNGUNDLOVU FET COLLEGE 1713 1112 601 35% MALUTI FET COLLEGE 3016 1977 1039 34% SOUTH WEST GAUTENG COLLEGE 6037 4133 1904 32% TSHWANA NORTH COLLEGE 4318 2969 1349 31% CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY 3752 2630 1122 30% ESAYIDI FET COLLEGE 1291 905 386 INGWE PUBLIC FET COLLEGE 1504 1057 447 radio September 12, 2018 Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and Training
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2019 application status 2019 applications opened – September 03, 2018 and closing date is November 30, 2018 2019 Online applications tested by focus group of matriculants Evaluation of the application will commence as soon as application is submitted to NSFAS The public awareness raised and communication improved More rapid approval process facilitated by third party data providers. e.g. SARS; UIF; SASSA Toll free number NSFAS Strengthen institutional collaboration Development of students accounts Streamlining of approval processes radio September 12, 2018 Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and Training
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2019 application statistics
NSFAS Website has recorded visits. potential applicants have created mynas accounts, which indicates intent to submit applications From opening date September 03, 2018, applications for funding were received Over 50 NSFAS officials trained and deployed across the country to assist students Stakeholder engagements TVET College Principals Engagement – September 11, 2018 Financial aid officers and practitioners Engagement – September 10, 2018 University SRC Engagement - September 09, 2018 SAUS - NSFAS Engagement – August 31, 2018 TVET SRC Engagement – September 15, 2018 (next) radio September 12, 2018 Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and Training
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Technical Team Necessary technical expertise to provide support during the period of Administration EXPERTISE COMPETENCY AREAS TO ADDRESS Financial management Financial controls and adherence to PFMA Reconciliation of disbursement and adequacy of risk rules and financial controls Process management Lead process engineer Standardization of processes; policies and SOPs Data architecture Data scientists Data integrity and integration across institutions System architecture System design; integration and optimization Responsiveness and real time processing Organization development Design of optimum operational models Organizational redesign and optimization Others social media radio television Social Media September 12, 2018 Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and Training
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NSFAS into the future Empowerment of stakeholders
Institutional key account managers Students Policy makers Student support and development Process driven organization based on logic business design Systems integration Data integrity Risk assessment using third party validation radio September 12, 2018 Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and Training
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