- The Western Cape provincial government has opened applications for students to apply to be funded on their tertiary education journeys in 2024.
- According to the Provincial Treasury, students passionate about careers related to finance, accounting, statistics and built environments may apply.
- Applicants will have to be South African citizens and residents of Western Cape.
Every year we cover the many different institutions and entities that offer scholarships and bursaries to students in South Africa. There are a host of choices on offer, but as always they depend on what you are interested in studying, as well as the time frame you wish to apply.
On Wednesday, the Western Cape provincial government announced that it had opened applications for bursaries it was offering through the Provincial Treasury (PT). These bursaries will be for students looking to enter tertiary education in the 2024 academic year.
In a press statement, the PT said it was “…committed to creating opportunities for young people to access tertiary education and to address critical skills shortages in the fields of Economics, Accounting, Finance and Auditing.”
Grade 12 learners, post- and undergraduates will be able to apply for the PT bursaries if they are interested in pursuing careers in:
- “Economics,
- Finance,
- Accounting & Auditing,
- Supply Chain Management,
- Built Environment and Project Management (preferably Construction Economics/Management; Population Studies; Transport Economics or related courses),
- and Information Sciences, Data Science and Statistics.”
There are a few criteria included to delineate who can apply for the bursaries. The most important point is that applicants must be South African citizens and they must live in the Western Cape province of the country.
Applicants must also be between the ages of 17 and 35 years, they must have obtained an average of 65 percent or higher for the previous year of study be it at high school or at university, and they may not already be the recipient of another bursary or state funding scheme like NSFAS.
Additionally, postgraduate applicants need to have already obtained a bachelor’s degree within one of the above targeted fields of study.
Applications close on 15th September 2023. All prospective applicants can apply on the Provincial Treasury website here.
“I am excited to announce that applications for the Western Cape’s Provincial Treasury bursaries for the 2024 academic year are now open. I encourage young people with a passion for economics, accounting, auditing and even data science to apply now,” enthused Mireille Wenger, Provincial Minister of Finance and Economic Opportunities.
“This is also one of our Priority Focus areas of our new and bold economic action plan, ‘Growth For Jobs’, which understands that if we do not put the work in now to create a better fit between the needs of businesses and the available skills programmes, we will not be able to achieve our ambitious target of a trillion-Rand economy in which people have access to the opportunities they need to prosper,” the minister concludes.
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