The Higher Education Students Financing Board (HESFB) has finally released a list of students who applied for financial support under the Student Loan Scheme for the Academic Year 2020/2021.
The total number of Successful applicants to the Students’ Loan Scheme for the academic year 2020/2021 is 1,146 after several appeals by those who were denied on first try.
The successful appellants are distributed in 18 institutions with 8 offering Diploma programmes and 75 undergraduate degree programmes. Kampala International University, Makerere University, Ndejje University and Kyambogo University took the majority of the successful appellants.
It should be recalled that JC Muyingo, the State Minister for Higher Education released the list of student loan scheme cohorts for the Academic Year 2020/2021 in December 2020. Out of the 5,592 that had applied, 1,113 were selected for the sponsorship representing 20%. Out of the applications received 3,100 (55.4%) were male while 2,492 (44.5%) female. 1,004 are undertaking undergraduate degree programmes and 109 are for diplomas.
Section 40 of the Higher Education Students Financing Act, 2014 provides that an applicant can appeal the decision of the Board to the Minister of Education if they have not been selected. A total of 672 applicants appealed and after consideration of their means test scores, 83 students have been considered on appeal of which 21 are female and 62 are male.
This follows the withdrawal from the Scheme of about 50 applicants (31 Female and 19 Male) due to various reasons with majority benefiting from other Scholarship offers, which include the Government Merit Sponsorship, State House Scholarships, MasterCard Foundation Scholarships, and other Government of Uganda Scholarships.
According to an observation made by HESFB, the withdrawn students released a total of UShs 277,160,270, and most of them were taking expensive programmes and an approximate amount has been used to consider the appeals.
Download the list below;
