B-BBEE Bursary Fund Management
A bursary to a career, not to unemployment.
Our beneficiaries work in industry for the full study period. They graduate with an accredited qualification, years of real experience, and a committed employment placement — while your contribution earns skills-development and SED value.
The difference
Most bursaries end at graduation. Ours ends in a career.
A conventional bursary pays tuition and hopes for the best. Too many produce qualified but unemployable graduates with no experience and no references. We built the opposite.
- Works in industry every year of the bursary
- Graduates with a qualification plus years of experience
- Committed permanent employment on completion
- Strong references across multiple workplaces
- Life-skills, mentorship and a monthly stipend throughout
- Enterprise incubation for new-venture pathways
- Study only, with little or no workplace exposure
- Graduates with a qualification but no experience
- No employment pathway after graduation
- Thin or no professional references
- Financial stress drives high dropout rates
- No route into entrepreneurship
Bursary pathways
Three accredited routes from study to a committed career.
Each pathway pairs a UNISA qualification with full-time, in-industry work and a partner network that has committed to employ successful graduates.
UNISA B.Ed (4 years)
B.Ed Educator Pipeline
A four-year bursary and workplace incubation model that develops qualified, work-ready educators with academic grounding, school-based experience, and structured mentorship from day one.
- Annual cost
- R197,000
- Full programme
- R788,000
UNISA M.Ed (3 years)
M.Ed Educator Pathway
A three-year postgraduate pathway for qualified B.Ed graduates to complete a UNISA Master of Education while building school-based experience, mentorship depth, and leadership readiness.
- Annual cost
- R185,000
- Full programme
- R555,000
UNISA B. Social Work (4 years)
Social Work Bursary
A practical bursary pathway that develops qualified social workers with direct experience in learner support, family intervention, substance prevention, psychosocial support, and community outreach.
- Annual cost
- R225,000
- Full programme
- R900,000
Fund management
Your funds, managed to a standard funders can audit.
This is a professionally managed fund, not an informal grant. Every rand is ring-fenced to a named beneficiary and released against verified milestones, with monitoring and reporting built in from day one.
See how we manage fundsRing-fenced, per-beneficiary funding
Contributions are allocated to named beneficiaries and tracked against a defined per-beneficiary budget, so funders always know exactly what their money is doing.
Milestone-based disbursement
Funds are released against verified academic and workplace milestones rather than paid out up front, keeping capital tied to progress.
Monthly monitoring
Academic performance, workplace attendance and wellbeing are monitored monthly, so risks are caught early and intervention is fast.
Quarterly funder reporting
Funders receive structured progress reports covering beneficiary status, spend against budget, and programme outcomes.
Partners & employment
A package of partners who have committed to employ.
What turns this into a Bursary to Career is the network behind it. Beneficiaries work inside real organisations for the full study period, and those partners have committed to absorbing successful graduates into permanent roles.
Education partners
Top private schools, tutoring groups and township public schools host beneficiaries and have committed to permanent employment for successful education graduates.
Community & psychosocial partners
GBV, trauma, grief, substance-abuse and burnout support groups and rehabilitation centres host social-work beneficiaries and have committed to employing graduates.
A diverse school network
A network of partner private and public schools across every level gives each beneficiary hands-on experience providing learner support to learners from all walks of life, inside a range of real, high-performing settings.
MRC programme management
Metamorphosis Resource Centre coordinates placements, mentorship, monitoring and the funder relationship end to end.
Funder value
Real B-BBEE and SED value — from spend that actually works.
Because this is accredited study combined with genuine workplace development, your contribution is built to earn recognition across the skills-development and socio-economic-development elements of the B-BBEE scorecard.
Skills-development points
Accredited learning combined with structured workplace experience is designed to count toward your skills-development spend and targets.
Socio-economic development (SED)
Funding beneficiaries from under-resourced communities contributes toward SED objectives with measurable, reportable impact.
Absorption that scores
Committed employment for graduates supports the absorption and pipeline outcomes that funders are increasingly measured on.
Section 18A tax deductibility
As a registered PBO, qualifying contributions can be issued Section 18A certificates for tax-deductible giving.
Fund graduates who are ready to work.
Tell us the pathways and beneficiary numbers you want to support. We handle selection, placement, management and reporting — you receive employed graduates and auditable B-BBEE and SED value.