During the exercise of processing 2013/2014 loan application forms, the Higher Education Students’ Loans Board came across 6,364
loan applications which were missing some vital information for further
loans processing. Six problems were identified as follows:
· No Applicant’s Signature,
· No Birth Certificate,
· No Guarantor’s Photo,
· No Guarantor’s Signature
· Not Signed by Local Authority
· Not Signed by the Magistrate
For that reason, the Board informed concerned Loan
applicants that such incomplete applications would have not been
considered until the missing information was provided. However, until
the deadline only 3,151 loan applicants had corrected their forms in time.
The Board is hereby once again giving a second chance to the 1,107 first year students loan applicants who have been admitted to priority programmes in various Higher Learning Institutions but did not correct their forms in the earlier provided time (from 16th August to 30th August) to do so within the next 14 days from 24th October to 6th November 2013. These are students who are admitted into the following Priority programmes: