Education
Projects related to related to gross corruption, maladministration and wasteful expenditure within the Department of Basic and Higher Education.
Our Education Portfolio contains several projects related to gross corruption, maladministration and wasteful expenditure within the Department of Basic and Higher Education.
This portfolio focuses on projects that affect marginalized people, particularly those who are vulnerable and dis-empowered. This includes rural underprivileged communities, unemployed unskilled youth and under resourced national education facilities.
In this portfolio we have undertaken the following projects:


Investigating how NSFAS spends student funds
OUTA's investigation into the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) was sparked off in 2022 by our investigation into irregularities at the Services, when we found that Services SETA contractors were linked to other tenders among the SETAs and NSFAS. In February 2023, we published a preliminary report on three NSFAS tenders.