TRUE: Tanzania’s Higher Education Students Loan Board has published the list of recipients for 2019
A Facebook post posted on October 18, 2019, claiming that the Higher Education Students Loans Board (HESLB) has announced the first round list of 30,675 first-year students for the year 2019/2020 is TRUE.
The Facebook post, which is dated October 18, 2019, quotes the HESLB managing director, Abdul-Razaq Badru as saying that 11,043 of the recipients, or 36% of the total, are women, and 19,632 (64% of the total) are men.
The Higher Education Students Loan Board (HESLB) announced on its website that 30,675 first-year students would receive funding for their higher education for the year 2019/2020.
The government of Tanzania has prepared TZS450 billion for 128,285 students, of whom more than 45,000 are first-year students, and 83,285 are continuing students. For the year 2018/2019, the assigned budget was 427.5 billion to benefit 123,283 students including 41,285 first-year students.
According to the HESLB website, managing director, Abdul-Razaq Badru had a press conference on Thursday, October 17, 2019, for the official announcement of successful loan applicants for the year 2019/2020.
The first-round list of successful applicants can be found on the HESLB website.
PesaCheck has looked into the claim that The Higher Education Students Loan Board (HESLB) has announced the first round of first-year students for the year 2019/2020 and finds it to be TRUE.
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This fact-check was written by PesaCheck Researcher Najma Juma, was edited by PesaCheck Deputy Editor Ann Ngengere and was approved for publication by PesaCheck Managing Editor Eric Mugendi.
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