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20 March 2018
Photo Johan Roux
As the weather starts to cool and the trees begin to lose their leaves, the University of the Free State (UFS) commences with the Autumn graduation preparations, which will take place in the Callie Human Centre on the Bloemfontein Campus from 9-13 April 2018.
Students and their families can look forward to a fulfilling graduation ceremony that is bound to live up to the soon-to-be graduates’ dreams.
For information regarding the 2018 April graduations, please visit the UFS graduation ceremonies page, where students can also find the Graduation Guide Booklet. For enquiries please email graduations@ufs.ac.za
The graduation ceremonies for the different faculties will be taking place on the following dates:
Monday 9 April 2018
09:00: Faculties of Health Sciences and Theology and Religion
14:30: South Campus: University Access Programme
Tuesday 10 April 2018
09:00: Faculty of Law
14:30: Faculty of Education
Wednesday 11 April 2018
09:00: Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
14:30: Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
Thursday 12 April 2018
09:00: Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences (including Business School)
14:30: Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences
Friday 13 April 2018
09:00: Faculty of the Humanities
14:30: Faculty of the Humanities
The Graduation Ceremonies will be available on livestream: http://livestream.ufs.ac.za/
New residences for Qwaqwa Campus
2010-02-17
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Rev Hosiah Nkoana
Photo: Mangaliso Radebe. |
The Qwaqwa Campus of the University of the Free State will have new residences before the end of this year to ease the growing demand for student accommodation.
According to the Deputy Director of Housing and Residence Affairs at the Qwaqwa campus, Rev Hosiah Nkoana (pictured), the university is spending a lot of money on the rent and maintenance of the residences of the former colleges of education, Tshiya and Bonamelo, that the university has been using since 2004 to accommodate students.
The construction of these new residences will be carried out in two phases.
“The first phase will be university-funded and the residences will accommodate 200 students, male and female. The second phase will be a private development by a private developer. The residences in this phase of construction will accommodate 500 students – and this will be its first phase. It will then be followed by a second phase, depending on the demand for accommodation,” said Rev Nkoana.
“These residences will not necessarily be state-of-the-art residences but they will have good facilities that will underwrite our approach that residences are not just sleeping places.”
“We are developing a philosophy of turning our residences into learning and living areas. So, to get there we are going to put up a computer lab with 100-150 computers between the residences so that all resident students can access them to enhance the learning side of residence life. I hope this will change the way our students see residences,” he said.
Currently the residences at the Qwaqwa Campus can accommodate 770 students. The new residences are expected to be ready for occupation in the 2011 academic year.
Media Release:
Mangaliso Radebe
Assistant Director: Media Liaison
Tel: 051 401 2828
Cell: 078 460 3320
E-mail: radebemt@ufs.ac.za
17 February 2010