NSFAS 2025 applications: How to apply

NSFAS 2025 applications: How to apply

The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) 2025 applications are now officially open. Here is what you need to know about applying for financial aid. What are the criteria to be considered for NSFAS financial aid? According to bizcommunity, Higher Education and Training Minister, Dr Nobuhle Nkabane, launched the opening of the application process during … Read more

How A $16 ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Debt Blocked A Woman From Getting A Home Loan Despite $100k Savings

How A  ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Debt Blocked A Woman From Getting A Home Loan Despite 0k Savings

The popularity of buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) apps is growing rapidly, as are defaults and delinquencies. The slump in job markets and wage growth, alongside the high cost of borrowing due to elevated inflation, have already strained household budgets. Easier access to credit and flexible repayment options also lure younger generations to tap into loans even when … Read more

‘I’m Too Poor To Hang Out With My Friends’: International Student’s Struggle To Survive In London

‘I’m Too Poor To Hang Out With My Friends’: International Student’s Struggle To Survive In London

After arriving in the UK to pursue her studies at a prestigious London university, Indian writer Pranjali Hasotkar quickly realised that the financial reality of living in one of the world’s most expensive cities was far harsher than she had anticipated. As the cost of living soared, Hasotkar felt financially trapped and socially isolated. In … Read more

Blind musicians and teachers communicate through vibration using Canadian-made device

Blind musicians and teachers communicate through vibration using Canadian-made device

As It Happens5:32Blind musicians and teachers communicate through vibration using Canadian-made device A PhD student in Ottawa has developed a device that allows blind and low-vision students to feel music cues, replacing the need to see them.  Instead of having to follow a conductor’s baton, or a teacher’s hand gestures during a lesson, music learners … Read more

Many Canadians in their 20s and 30s are delaying having kids — and some say high rent is a factor

Many Canadians in their 20s and 30s are delaying having kids — and some say high rent is a factor

Anna Smith would like to start a family. But she would also like more space for a baby, as the 27-year-old and her partner currently live in a 500-square-foot apartment in Toronto’s east end for $1,550 per month. Like many Canadians in their 20s and 30s, she says she’s realizing she can’t have both.  So Smith, a University of … Read more

Canadian unemployment rate rises to 6.4%, with student summer jobs especially hard to come by

Canadian unemployment rate rises to 6.4%, with student summer jobs especially hard to come by

The Canadian economy was virtually unchanged in June, shedding 1,400 jobs, while unemployment rose 0.2 percentage points to 6.4 per cent, Statistics Canada said on Friday. The unemployment rate has trended upward for more than a year, with 1.4 million people unemployed in June, according to the agency’s monthly Labour Force Survey. Of those who were … Read more

99 affected by food poisoning at a Batu Pahat school, says Ling Tian Soon

99 affected by food poisoning at a Batu Pahat school, says Ling Tian Soon

JOHOR BARU: A total of 99 students and teachers from a Batu Pahat secondary school suffered stomach aches after consuming food from the school canteen. Johor health and environment committee chairman Ling Tian Soon said 90 students and nine from the teaching staff began experiencing symptoms such as diarrhoea and vomiting last Thursday (June 27). … Read more

Stir, FIR over ‘blasphemous’ post by Srinagar medical college student | India News

Stir, FIR over ‘blasphemous’ post by Srinagar medical college student | India News

SRINAGAR: J&K Police have filed an FIR against a student of Srinagar’s Government Medical College (GMC) over an alleged blasphemous postamid protests. The absconding student has been suspended.Classes at the medical college have been suspended for three days till Saturday because of the protests by junior doctors, students as well as faculty members over the … Read more

Ex-Boston College High teacher indicted for charge of raping a student

Ex-Boston College High teacher indicted for charge of raping a student

A former Boston College High School teacher and Jesuit priest was indicted by a Suffolk County grand jury on charges of raping a student between 2008 and 2009, Suffolk DA Kevin Hayden announced Wednesday. “All teachers, and all religious officials, are figures of authority and have a professional and moral obligation to always wield that … Read more