Question

Evaluate both the effectiveness and ineffectiveness of FunzaLushaba bursury scheme

Answer 1

Answer:

Effectiveness of Funzalushaba bursary scheme:

Funza lushakaba bursary scheme is a program at the Republic of South Africa that encourages its candidates to use it for the teaching profession. It includes all the essential expenses of the applicant's.Expenses stated supports tuition, full accommodation as well as meals, books, and learning materials, and a little allowance for monthly living expenses.Funza lushakaba bursary scheme provides the nation with a lot of lecturers, and the scheme permits merit based students to make use of it.

Ineffectiveness of Funzalushaba bursary scheme:

The bursary must be repaid when the candidates fail to meet the terms and agreements like failing to take the teachers post of public school and the one who leaves the teaching post before the contract period ends.The number of years taken up by scholars should be equalized by teaching in public schools for the bursary availed.

Answer 2

Effectiveness

  The programme contributed to a substantial increase in ITE enrolment: FLBP funded students comprised

15% of national ITE enrolment between 2007–2012.

  The bursary is awarded to high quality students (with good academic results).

  FLBP bursars are more likely to graduate in the minimum time, very few drop out and the majority graduate.

  The programme is highly effective: 83.5% of graduates are paying back by teaching in public schools. However,

there is no mechanism to track graduates and ascertain whether they fulfil their service obligations.

  The majority of graduates are teaching priority subjects but large numbers are not teaching the subjects they specialised in.

Efficiency

  Recruitment works well: the number of applications

is increasing year-on-year and students who meet the

selection criteria are selected. However, marketing to

rural and poor students could improve.

  Selection is efficient and thorough. However, selection

takes place after the start of the academic year which

affects registration and causes anxiety for financially

needy students.

  Funding is sufficient to meet student needs; the

programme is cost-effective and offers value-for-

money. However, the timing of disbursement is

problematic because of misalignment between the

government fiscal and the academic years. Payment

delays impact on financially needy students and affect

the cash flow of universities that support students to

bridge the gap.

  Placement occurs largely at provincial level and

inefficiencies are outside the control of the programme: although 83.5% of FLBP graduates

were teaching in public schools, only 50.6% were

in quintile 1–3 schools and 30.4% were not placed

within 60-days, effectively freeing them from their service obligation.

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