{"id":55082,"date":"2023-08-06T17:45:06","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T15:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/gemmie-fire-at-ussa-winter-games-2023-copy\/"},"modified":"2023-08-06T19:07:02","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T17:07:02","slug":"usaf-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/usaf-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"USAf statement highlights the risk of instability &#038; increasing student debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usaf.ac.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Universities of South Africa<\/span><\/a> (USAf), the representative body of the 26 public universities in South Africa, has released a statement. This statement raises concerns about student financial aid and the implications of instability that could lead to deeper student debt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The statement elaborates on the new initiatives by the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsfas.org.za\/content\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Student Financial Aid Scheme<\/a><\/span> (NSFAS) concerning:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>The process of defunding students<\/li>\n<li>Direct disbursements of student allowances<\/li>\n<li>Student accommodation capping<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Read the full statement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/KEY-CHALLENGES-CREATED-BY-THE-NATIONAL-STUDENT-FINANCIAL-AID-SCHEME-NSFAS-PLACE-UNIVERSITIES-AT-RISK-OF-INSTABILITY-AND-BEING.pdf\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span><\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Universities of South Africa (USAf), the representative body of the 26 public universities in South Africa, has released a statement. This statement raises concerns about student financial aid and the implications of instability that could lead to deeper student <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/usaf-statement\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":55089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,57],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"coauthors":[241],"class_list":["post-55082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-spu-student-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55082"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55090,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55082\/revisions\/55090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55082"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=55082"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=55082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}