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3.

Provisional Patent Application No. 2015/07849, titled: Cancer Therapeutics by

Mr NJ Gumede.

Research Funding

Research funding received from external sources is summarised in Table 5.1.

Table 5.1: External Research Funding Received

Staff member/ Department

Amount (R)

Details

Prof. ZL Dlamini

200 000.00 China/South Africa Research Cooperation Programme

Prof. ZL Dlamini

275 000.00 Italy/South Africa Research Cooperation Programme

Prof. ZL Dlamini

179 990.50 Tanzania/South Africa Research Cooperation Programme

Mr D Pons

450 000.00 EDTEA Funding

Mr BS Ngwenya

495 000.00 EDTEA Funding

Prof. TC Davies

40,000.00

NRF – Rated Researcher Grant

Dr. F Murungu

20,000.00

NRF – Rated Researcher Grant

Mr TT Poswa

30 000.00

KIC Travel Grant

Ms NX Mkhize

30 000.00

KIC Travel Grant

Mr NJ Gumede

500 000.00 TIA Seed Fund

Research Capacity Building

1642 200.00 DHET – Research Capacity Development Grant

Total

3 862 190.50

5.8 Changes in Tuition Fees Charged &

Access to Financial Aid

Tuition fees in 2015 increased by 9%.

Access to Financial Aid and the Provision Thereof

APPLICATION PROCEDURES

All students who wish to apply for financial assistance

call at the Financial Aid Office to collect an application

form and return it at a prescribed date, or alternatively

download it from the institution’s website;

www.mut.ac.za.

Students who are already receiving financial assistance

for their current year/semester of study must re-apply for

further assistance. Only properly completed application

forms, submitted on the prescribed date and with all

the required supporting documentation attached, are

considered. The closing dates for accepting application

forms for financial assistance are the last working day of

April and the last working day of August every year. These

dates apply to all categories of students. All applications

for financial assistance are processed immediately after

the end of registration and the release of supplementary/

aegrotat examination results and students are informed of

the outcome of their applications immediately thereafter.

UPFRONT PAYMENTS

First-year students who are accepted to study at

Mangosuthu University of Technology but cannot afford

to pay a minimum registration fee are assisted to register

with NSFAS funding after going through the normal

application process.

All other continuing students who intend to register are

expected to pay a minimum prescribed deposit. However,

the deposit is waived if proof of sponsorship is provided.

Sponsored students are not expected to pay a deposit,

but they have to submit award letters from their sponsors

in order to register. Students who applied for NSFAS

funding and have qualified are also not expected to pay

a minimum prescribed deposit because that is catered for

by the NSFAS upfront payment facility.

Bursaries and Scholarships

In 2015 our stakeholders in industry and commerce made

available

R23 631 758.55

for bursaries and scholarships,

and from that amount 743 students from all fields of

study received bursaries to cover their costs of studies.

Our bursary and scholarship fund component has been

increasing over the past few years. The table below shows

the gradual increase of our bursaries and scholarships

fund component over the past three years as follows: