南非国家学生财政资助计划的成效及挑战

Achievements and Challenges of South African National Student Financial Aid Scheme

为了促进新南非高等教育的公平与民主,政府设立了向贫困学生提供贷款的国家学生财政资助计划,并且不断予以改革。自实施以来,该计划取得了巨大的成效,显著表现在:发放贷款的总量与资助学生数持续增长,促进高等教育机构学生构成的多样性,鼓励学生提高学术成绩。但是不可避免地遇到了一些挑战,如资金来源严重依赖政府拨款,缺口大,贷款回收率低,缺乏对中等收入水平学生的资助,人力资源短缺等。因此,南非国家学生财政资助计划依然面临着艰巨的任务。

To promote justice and democracy in higher education, the new South African government set up National Student Financial Aid Scheme which offers student loans to deprived students and according reforms have been made. Since its formal implementation, National Student Financial Aid Scheme of South Africa has gained great achievements: it increased both the total amount of loans and funded students;improved the diversity of students enrolled in higher education institutions and students’ academic level.However, it’s also confronted with some challenges: funding resource relies on government grants heavily with a large gap; loan recovery rate is low; middle-income students are underfunded and human resources are deficient. Therefore, National Student Financial Aid Scheme of South Africa still faces arduous work.