FEM Bursary Application for 2025
The FEM Bursary South Africa Application for 2025/2026. Find below How to Apply for FEM Bursary 2025/2026.
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About the FEM Bursary: Federated Employers Mutual Assurance Company (RF) Pty Limited (FEM), founded in 1936, provides construction companies and their employees with specialised insurance cover, against injuries or illnesses contracted in the workplace.
The FEM Education Foundation (FEMEF), is a non-profit organisation that aims to make a significant impact in improving education in South Africa. Since the Foundation was formed in 2016, R750 million has been paid to the foundation to help their efforts.
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Details of FEM Bursary Application 2025/2026
Through their bursary offering, FEM aims to help committed individuals to achieve their qualifications that will contribute to the field of the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment and the Faculty of Health Sciences.
The FEM bursary program is specifically aimed to assist those students who are academic performers but lack the means to fund their education.
FEM Bursary Application Eligibility Requirements for 2025
To receive the benefits of this bursary program students are required to fulfill the following eligibility criteria.
- The bursary is provided only to South African students
- Those applying for this bursary must have a good financial standing with their university. There should not be any outstanding fees for the previous academic year.
- Disadvantaged and financially weak students will be given the top priority.
- Applicants must showcase a good academic record.
- The household income of a student should not exceed R360,000.
- A student must have been accepted to study at a South African public university or any other approved institution.
- Students applying for the bursary must have completed first-year study.
What does the FEM Bursary Application for 2025 Entail
The FEM bursary program covers the following expenditure of the students
- Full-time tuition and registration fee
- All the prescribed textbooks and stationery
- Monthly stipend
- Meals and accommodation are provided to the students after approval from FEM
- Students may also receive a laptop (at the discretion of FEM)
How To Apply for FEM Bursary Application for 2025
Students can apply for the bursary program online, click here to start the application process: FEM Bursary Application 2025.
Apart from filling in the required details, students must also submit the following documents. In case any documents are missing, the bursary can reject their application.
- South African ID document
- FEM bursary application form
- Proof of income of parents or guardians (payslips)
- Social grant documentation (if applicable)
- Latest academic record
- Death certificate of parents if the parents are dead
- Divorce certificate of parents if the parents are divorced
- An affidavit stating that the parents/guardians are unemployed or do not provide financial assistance to the applicant.
Additional Information for FEM Bursaries Application for 2025
- In the absence of a valid ID document or if you are younger than 16 years of age you may submit an unabridged birth certificate.
- Students are also required to submit ID proof of their parents/guardian
- The payslip of the earning member of the family must not be older than 3 months
- An official pension slip or bank statement must be submitted in case the parent/guardian has retired
- If the parent/guardian is an informal trader then the applicant must submit an affidavit signed by them
- If there is no official income proof one can submit the source of income/allowance per individual with an affidavit
- All the submitted documents must be certified at the South African Police Service or South African Post Office.
- If there is a dependent student, the applicant is required to submit proof of registration from the tertiary institution.
Closing Date: The closing date of application is 20 December 2023.