SACTWU Bursary/Scholarships
SACTWU bursary is offered for studies at all South African universities and university of technology qualify. Only Colleges that are registered with the Department of Higher Education qualify.
A private higher education institution is one registered with the Department of Higher Education as at 1 January 2018 and would include provisionally registered institutions. Only courses accredited by the Department of Higher Education for such institutions would qualify. An updated list with qualifying institutions will be available on the Sactwu Website and Sactwu office. You can also get this information from the Department of Higher Education’s website at http://www.dhet.gov.za
Applications for study at any FET / TVET College shall not be considered. Sactwu does not sponsor FET /TVET Colleges.
Only Sactwu members, Sactwu Staff and their spouse and child dependants’ qualify. A certified copy of an unabridged birth certificate from the Department of Home Affairs indicating the names of their biological parents must be submitted for all child dependents.
Non-members do not qualify. Child dependants who are employed fulltime do not qualify. In order to qualify you must be a paid-up Sactwu member 13 weeks before 1 November 2017. In other words you must be a paidb up Sactwu member by the 31st July 2017.
SACTWU bursaries are granted automatically (subject to the rules) to dependants who are 25 years or younger. Applicants who are over 25 years are subjected to scrutiny by a committee. This will be applicable if they have received a Sactwu bursary previously. The bursary will be equivalent to 75% of the qualifying tuition fees per academic year subject to such maxima as the union’s national structures may decide from time to time.
Spouses are considered as a dependant and will receive half of the qualifying bursary amount for 2018.
Payment to spouses in 2018 shall be reconsidered once the number of applicants within this category has been determined for 2018.
6. Once a learner qualifies for a bursary, and the member is subsequently retrenched or has retired, the learner may apply for another bursary in subsequent years for the same degree or diploma of study provided that the retrenched member has not found work in an industry not covered by Sactwu. This application will be referred to the bursary committee for consideration.
Post Graduate. Degrees B-Tech, Diplomas and Certificates (Public Institution) – Bursaries are payable to all students who are studying a recognised Post Graduate (Honours), Degree, B-Tech, Diploma and Certificate at a university and university of technology.
The bursary qualifying amount would be equivalent to 75% of the tuition fees per academic year, subject to such maxima as the union’s national structures may decide from time to time. The union has now decided that the maximum payable will be R35000.
Degrees B-Tech, Diplomas and Certificates (Private Institution) – Only courses accredited by the DoE for such institutions would qualify. This bursary is only payable at a private institution for as long as the degree in question is accredited and if the degree is no longer accredited, then the bursary will be discontinued.
How To Apply?
Download the SACTWU bursary application form for 2019 from http://www.sactwu.org.za/files/Bursaries%202018%20-%20SASU%20Form.pdf