Latest News Archive

Please select Category, Year, and then Month to display items
Previous Archive
20 March 2018 Photo Johan Roux
Soon-to-be graduates warm up for Autumn graduations
Graduation is the beginning of a new journey

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/

News Archive

Rotary awards UFS academic
2008-03-14

 

Rotarians of the Bloemfontein Rotary Club, associated with the UFS, celebrated the Rotary Foundation’s Peace and Conflict Award for 2008 to Prof. Heidi Hudson with some previous rotary awardees at the university. Prof. Hudson is the Departmental Chairperson of the Department of Political Science. From the left are, front: Mr Arthur Johnson (UFS Research Administration), Prof. Hudson, Mr David Yuill (Rotarian, Goldblatt Yuill Architects, also former Head of the Department of Architecture), Mr Jock Murray (Rotarian and retired head of the Department of Occupational Therapy); back: Prof. Peter Holmes (Rotarian and Head of the Department of Geography), Prof. Johan Grobbelaar (Department of Plant Sciences and previous Rotary Foundation Group study exchange member), Prof. Frederick Fourie (Rector and Vice-Chancellor and previous Rotary Foundation Scholar to Harvard) Prof. Maitland Seaman (Rotarian and Head of the Centre for Environmental Management), and Dr Jack Armour (former Rotarian and from the Department of Agricultural Economics).
Photo: Leonie Bolleurs
 

We use cookies to make interactions with our websites and services easy and meaningful. To better understand how they are used, read more about the UFS cookie policy. By continuing to use this site you are giving us your consent to do this.

Accept