No, NSFAS has never funded BTech students at any other university, and so the one-year BTech year that is undertaken following a diploma will not be funded. The reason for this is that NSFAS only funds first degrees or diplomas. While limited funding for postgraduate studies was introduced in 2011, this is not enough to cover the BTech programmes across the country. Our loan has been finalised but our residences were not included since the school allocated them late. What are we going to do with such debts? In 2013, a special plea was made to the Residence Offices to load all residence costs onto student fee accounts. This unfortunately did not happen and each of the FAOs should be checking to see if any residence costs have been added to the student fee account before you sign your loan form. Please make sure of this and if not, bring a copy of your student fee account to the FAO when you go to sign your loan form.