HESLB Current Application Guidelines 2023/24; The Higher Education Students’ Loans Board (HESLB) was established by HESLB Act (CAP 178) and became effective in July 2005. HESLB is mandated to, among others, issue loans and or grants to needy and eligible students.
Application window for Academic Year 2023/2024 will be open from 15th July, 2022 through 30th September, 2023.
Also read NECTA Form Six Results 2023/24-Matokeo Ya Kidato Cha Sita 2023/2024
Read direct here; https://www.heslb.go.tz
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ELIGIBILITY
HESLB Act and regulations provide for General Eligibility and Criteria for
applicants seeking loans. NEEDY and ELIGIBLE applicants must apply for
loans and/or grants to meet part or full costs of their education.
3.1 Needy Applicant
In addition to general eligibility, additional criteria define NEEDY
applicant who is not above 35 years of age at the time of
application also must be:-
(i) Orphan who has lost both parents or partial orphan who has
lost one parent. An applicant has to produce a death
certificate approved by RITA or ZCSRA;
(ii) Student with disability shall have to complete and present a
fully Self-Disability Form (SDF-1) to be approved by District
Medical Officer (DMO), Regional Medical Officer (RMO) or
any designated medical expert with recognized affiliations.
(iii) Parents with disability shall have to present a Parent Disability
Form (PDF-2) to be approved by the District Medical Officer
(DMO), Regional Medical Officer (RMO) or any designated.
medical expert with recognized affiliations.
(iv) From lower income household and/or marginalized
community whose secondary school or diploma education
was partially or fully sponsored or supported by recognized
institutions, and/or a community group(s), who can present
evidence of such support.
All applicants under this sponsorship category will have to ask
their respective sponsors to fill a Standard Corporate
Sponsorship Form (SCSF-3) which shall be downloaded from
HESLB website and upload it along with other attachments in
the application forms. All SCSF-3 will have to be validated by a
dully approved signatory and owner of the respective
organization.
(v) From lower income household and/or marginalized
community, which is under Special Economic Support
Programs such as Tanzania Social Action Fund (TASAF), they
should provide the program beneficiary’s number and attach
TASAF ID.
3.2 General Eligibility Criteria as Pronounced by the Act
General Eligibility criteria require an applicant to meet the
following conditions: –
(i) Must be Tanzanian;
(ii) Must have applied for a loan through the Online Loan
Application and Management System (OLAMS);
(iii) Must have been admitted to an accredited Higher Education
Institution on full time basis;
(iv) For Students Admitted at the Open University of Tanzania
(OUT), eligible students will be considered for tuition fee and
books and stationery expenses;
Must not have other sources of funding to finance his/her
education;
(vi) For undergraduate applicants, must not have a formal or
regular income from employment, either public or private
sector.
(vii) Must be a continuing student with results/progress reports to
show that he/she has passed the examinations necessary to
enable him/her to advance to the following year or stage of
study;
(viii) For a student’s loan beneficiary seeking to re-apply for loan
after dropping out from one programme/college/university)
he/she must repay at least 25% of the previous loan amount
before applying for a new loan. Payment of 25% of the
previously granted loan is not a guarantee for new loan
allocation.
3.3 Additional Eligibility Criteria
(i) Loans shall be allocated in the order of established Neediness,
academic excellence and programme clustering (priority).
(ii) Continuing Students applying for loans for the first time must
have completed ACSEE or other equivalent qualifications
within Five (5) years, i.e. from 2018-2022 inclusive.
(iii) All other applicants who will secure admission to pursue
various degree programmes in the academic year 2023/2024
must have completed their ACSEE or other equivalent
qualifications within five (5) years, i.e. from 2018-2022 inclusive.
IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS TO ALL LOAN APPLICANTS
All loan applicants for Academic Year 2022/2023 are required to
observe the following:-
(i) Read and follow application procedures stated in these
guidelines;
(ii) Ensure that the Form Four Index Number provided when
applying for loan matches with the one used in your
application for admission to University or College;
(iii) Applicants who sat for Form Four Examination more than
once are required to list all Form Four Index Numbers used
while applying for loan;
(iv) Ensure that all documents submitted to support your
application have been certified by relevant authorities as
specified in these guidelines;
(v) Ensure that all birth/death certificates are certified by the
Registration, Insolvency and Trusteeship Agency (RITA), or
Zanzibar Civil Status Registration Agency (ZCSRA) “Wakala
wa Usajili wa Matukio ya Kijamii Zanzibar “or designated
officer(s) to ascertain their validity;
(vi) Ensure all students who were born abroad and or their
Parents died abroad obtain a letter from RITA to validate
the information provided;
(vii) Ensure that your loan application form is dully filled and
signed before submission;
(viii) Ensure that his/her Bank account details are properly lled
in the application form;
(ix) Applications must be completed with correct (and
accurate) details;
(x) Each applicant is advised to keep a copy of a complete
package of the application form submitted to HESLB for
future reference (if required) and
(xi) All applicants must strictly observe the set
application deadline.