THE National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) has told first year students, who qualify to get a bursary from the NSFAS, to sign their agreements by 31 July 2018.
NSFAS recently will be implementing the new National Student Financial Aid Scheme Bursary Agreement (NBA) after government announced fee-free education.
The NBA is only accessible to first-year students and senior students who applied to NSFAS for the first time in 2018.
According to NSFAS student in all universities and colleges will be notified in due course by e-mail.
"The email notification contains a link, which students must click and it takes them to an online version of the NBA, which they have to sign by the deadline. Each student will receive the email directly," NSFAS said in a statement.
"NSFAS is concerned that the process is moving slowly. By 15 May, we had generated 37 893 NBAs, but only 5 063 had been signed,” the scheme said in a statement."
Affected students who fail to sign the NBA by 31 July 2018 will not have their bursaries paid.
The statement further said if the online signing option is not functioning optimally, NSFAS will make a manual NBA available for onsite physical signing.
