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Higher Education Act, 1997 (Act No. 101 of 1997)

Notices

Funding of Public Higher Education (November 2003)

4. Earmarked Grants

 

(4.1) Earmarked grants are funds allocated to institutions for specific or designated purposes. These will be used for the following broad purposes:
The National Student Financial Aid Scheme.
Teaching (including foundation programmes), research and community development.
Interest and redemption payments on loans approved and guaranteed before 1991.
Institutional restructuring, including mergers and the re-capitalisation of institutions.
The higher education quality assurance framework.

 

(4.2) The Minister of Education will on an annual basis in the context of the MTEF three-year rolling projections determine the following in respect of earmarked grants:
The division of earmarked grant allocation between the different categories.
The allocation earmarked grants to individual institutions.