Financial Aid and Fees

Overview

• Coordinating student funding programs, including NSFAS, scholarships, and bursaries.
• Assisting financially disadvantaged students with information and support.
• Administering scholarships, bursaries, and financial awards.
• Providing financial counselling services to students.
• Facilitating donor relationships and support for student funding.
• Ensuring compliance with funding regulations and reporting requirements.
• Continuously improving services and processes to adapt to changes in funding and student needs.
• Coordinates the work-study programme
• Provides donor liaison services to the various donors who provide funding and valuable support to financially needy and academically deserving students.

Mission and Vision

• Financial Aid Office provides access, financial support and advisory services to all deserving students, especially learner intake from previously disadvantaged backgrounds.
• Primary function of the Financial Aid Office is to award and manage bursaries and bursary loans according to agreed criteria.

• The Financial Aid Office strives to balance responsible stewardship of all financial aid funds with the creation of a student-centred culture. 
• We are working to establish ourselves as a leader in financial aid services when measured against peer institutions, using technology to streamline financial aid processes and constantly looking forward to meeting challenges resulting from changes in federal, state, institutional and private funding rules and economic changes.
• We seek to model campus-wide communication and collaboration while respecting the needs, values, and diversity of our students, parents, and colleagues

Our aims as a department

• Enhancing Student Retention and Success
• Facilitates Access and Equity
• To operate efficiently so that institutional resources are used wisely and students may pursue their academic goals without distraction.

Some of our Programme include but not limited to:

• UWC Financial Aid assistance
• Work-study programme
• Administering governmental funding
• Private bursaries
• Administrating NSFAS (however we do not deal with NSFAS applications and selections)