However, whilst the financial barriers to access have now been substantially removed, retention and throughput rates of NSFAS students remain unacceptably low. REAP’s core focus now therefore is to ensure that there is a far greater return on the dramatically increased public investment in higher education, in terms of graduations and employment rates for rural students. We also strive to inculcate values consistent with our Catholic ethos such as integrity, community service and active responsible citizenship.

REAP no longer recruits new students from rural schools but rather online or directly from university, though still retaining our previous selection criteria, namely that the student matriculates from a rural school and comes from a household with an income less than R122,000 per annum. This is in keeping with our shift in emphasis whereby our core business is no longer getting rural students into university but rather getting those who make it there through to graduation.

We only recruit new students from six Higher Education Institutions, namely UJ, UWC, NMU, UKZN, UFS & CUT – and Motheo TVET College in Bloemfontein. We will however continue to support all current students until completion of their studies.
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