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Namibia Student Financial Assistance Fund (NSFAF) is a financial organisation in Namibia. It provides bursaries and loans for undergraduate students to help pay for the cost of their tertiary education. It was formed in 1995 and is run by the government under the Ministry of Higher Education, Training and Innovation. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Namibia gained independence from South Africa on 21 March 1990, following the Namibian War of Independence. Its capital and largest city is Windhoek , and it is a member state of the United Nations (UN), the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the African Union (AU), and the Commonwealth of Nations .
As of 2013, the University of Namibia and the military school jointly began offering the undergraduate Bachelor of Military Science (Honours) degree with three specialization areas, Aeronautical, Army and Nautical. The Nautical specialization is sub-divided into an additional three fields: Nautical-Electronics, Nautical-Mechanical and Nautical ...
Bursaries are similar to but distinct from "scholarships" or "prizes", which are based on performance or sponsorship. Scholarships and prizes are generally awarded for good performance in the study preceding course entrance in which the student achieves grades above the standard entry.
The Polytechnic of Namibia was de jure not a university as no provision was made in the Act by which it was created (Act 33 / 1994) [3] to carry this name. A motion for name change into Namibia's University of Science and Technology was rejected by cabinet in August 2010, [4] but approved by the same body in December 2012. The transition to ...
The Station is located 120 kilometres (75 mi) south-east of Walvis Bay in Namibia's largest nature reserve, the Namib-Naukluft National Park. Gobabeb lies at the meeting point of three different ecosystems: the ephemeral Kuiseb River, the Sand Dunes Sea to the south and the gravel plains to the north. This offers an excellent diversity of ...
The largest geological collection in Namibia shows exhibits from the various mining areas in Namibia in several sections, including the Tsumeb region, the Rössing mine, the Navachab gold mine and the Rosh Pinah zinc mine. [2] In the Tsumeb department, for example, exhibits from the dissolution of an ore mine are on display.
The University of Namibia Political Science or UNAM Political Science Department, is a department within the University of Namibia's Faculty of Economic and Management studies in Windhoek Namibia. It is responsible for directing research and teaching programs in the fields of political science and social science. The department was first ...