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08 May 2018
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Honourable Acting Judge of the Supreme Court ofAppeal, Mr Justice Tati Makgoka
Over 650 degrees, diplomas, and certificates will be conferred upon deserving Kovsies when the
Qwaqwa Campus hosts its
graduation ceremonies on Thursday 10 May 2018.
Graduands at both the morning and afternoon sessions will be addressed by the Honourable Acting Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeal,
Mr Justice Tati Makgoka.
All degrees in the Faculties of Economic and Management Sciences and Education will be conferred during the morning session. The Faculties of the Humanities and Natural and Agricultural Sciences will have their turn during the afternoon session.
Among the degrees to be conferred will be seven PhDs and seven master’s degrees in the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, and one PhD in English in the Faculty of the Humanities.
Three members of the current and seven from the 2016/2017 Student Representative Council (SRC) will be graduating.
CDS receives another international grant from the NIH
2015-12-11
 Dr Carla Sharp |
The Centre for Development Support (CDS) is partner to another international research grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States. The new project follows an earlier project funded by the NIH, which focused on the mental health of orphans and vulnerable children.
The new project is to focus on investigating possible improvements in the mental health and cognitive development of orphaned and vulnerable children aged between seven and eleven years, by means of improved community-based care in the Mangaung Township area in Bloemfontein. The project will stretch over three years and has a budget of approximately R10 million.
“We shall use the Mediational Intervention of Sensitizing Caregivers (MISC) approach and it will be applied by community-based organisations,” says Dr Deidre van Rooyen, Acting Director of the CDS.
MISC applied by caregivers has produced good results elsewhere in the world. “This is the first time MISC will be tested by community-based organisations,” says Prof Lochner Marais of the CDS, who is also the principal investigator in South Africa.
“In addition to working with four community-based organisations in Mangaung, Childline Free State will also be actively involved in the project,” Marais added.
The project is being conducted in collaboration with Dr Carla Sharp as principal investigator at the University of Houston, and Prof Michael Boivin (an international expert on MISC) at the Michigan State University. Dr Sharp was recently appointed visiting professor at the CDS.
“It is indeed a great privilege to be working with the CDS on yet another project,” Dr Sharp remarked, also noting that “the project is preliminary in nature and could evolve into a much bigger research project in future”.