{"id":312348,"date":"2019-04-22T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=312348"},"modified":"2019-04-18T15:57:32","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T13:57:32","slug":"how-government-wants-to-change-the-way-you-apply-for-university-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/312348\/how-government-wants-to-change-the-way-you-apply-for-university-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"How government wants to change the way you apply for university in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) published the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/gcis_document\/201904\/42410gon595.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Central Application Service Bill<\/a> <\/strong>on Friday (18 April) &#8211; aiming to make changes to the post-school application process in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pullquote-container\"><span class=\"pullquote pullquote-processed\">Post School Education and Training (PSET) refers to all learning and teaching that happens after school. This includes private, public, formal and informal training.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Universities, TVET colleges, private institutions, apprenticeship programmes, and in-service training all form part of and contribute to the PSET sector.<\/p>\n<p>In an attached explanatory summary, the department said that the Central Application Service is a crucial service supporting students to access post-school opportunities and make informed choices.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The primary aim of the service is to offer advice and serve as an application channel for students applying for post-school education and training (PSET) opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The service allows students to apply for study places, pay a single application fee, and facilitate their applications to more than one institution if necessary,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In so doing, it will ensure an effective and efficient placement of students across the system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The bill states that participation in the Central Application Service is mandatory for all of the country&#8217;s PSET institutions and that applicants will pay a standard single application fee.<\/p>\n<p>This fee will be determined at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the other proposed objectives of the Central Application Service include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Providing all prospective entrants with access to information about qualifications offered at various public PSET institutions. This includes information on minimum entrance requirements, career-related information, and public resources available to prospective entrants;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Making the application process across multiple institutions affordable and available to all applicants;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Reducing the administrative burden of application processing for institutions;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Optimising the placement of applicants in appropriate studies which includes a clearinghouse facility;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Facilitating the applications process so that institutions are able to make timely offers to applicants;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Improving the predictability of the take-up rate per institution and programme;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Providing all potential entrants into the PSET sector a single point for application to all their chosen education and training opportunities in the sector, combined with applications for accommodation and financial assistance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can read the full bill below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block;\"><a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"View Draft Central Application Service Bill on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/406697562\/Draft-Central-Application-Service-Bill#from_embed\">Draft Central Application Service Bill<\/a> by <a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"View BusinessTech's profile on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/user\/413742166\/BusinessTech#from_embed\">BusinessTech<\/a> on Scribd<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"doc_65577\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" title=\"Draft Central Application Service Bill\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/406697562\/content?start_page=1&amp;view_mode=scroll&amp;access_key=key-BvEsBO4q5tU7HwD8SKhy&amp;show_recommendations=true\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.75\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/309728\/private-schools-in-south-africa-are-losing-learners-to-emigration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Private schools in South Africa are losing learners to emigration<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) published the Central Application Service Bill on Friday (18 April) &#8211; aiming to changes to the post-school application process in South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":190254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-312348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312348"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312488,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312348\/revisions\/312488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}