A project of Higher Education South Africa (HESA), NiSHE exists to provide quality information and guidance to anyone interested in studying at a university or a university of technology in South Africa.

The NiSHE website is for you if you are:

• a learner at school, especially from Grade 9 upward - required to choose subjects for Grades 10-12 and possible future study at a university;
• a school teacher - particularly in Life Orientation;
• a parent;
• a student or staff member at an FET college;and
• any prospective higher education student.

School leavers and other prospective university students have many questions about higher education study. We attempt to answer them here.

We also provide brief information on each of South Africa's 23 higher education institutions. For more detailed information, please visit the individual institutional websites. Several links on this NiSHE site will take you there.

NiSHE partnered with F.E.B.A Radio(an independent producer of radio material for community radio stations) and piloted an interview programme on the benefits of higher education which was flighted in August 2009 on Radio Qwa-Qwa, Naledi FM and SeSothoFM in the Free State.

You can listen to the full interview, in Sotho below: