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23 October 2018
Kovsie Advice- Exam edition

Fellow Kovsies, welcome to another edition of Kovsie Advice. The exams are just around the corner, but if you jump in now, you can excel at your studies. This edition of the Kovsie Advice is here to help you plan, prepare, and be ready for the end-of-year exams. We believe in you: You can end this year strong!


Some of the articles featured in this edition include setting up a revision plan, looking at study techniques that really work, exploring study tips from Qwaqwa, and learning about different note-taking methods. You will see that this edition also has links to some interactive elements on Blackboard to enhance your experience.

Feel free to drop us an email at advising@ufs.ac.za and tell us what you think of this edition.

Happy studying and remember that the academic advisers at CTL are here for academic support.

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Prof. Maryke Labuschagne named as best agriculturist
2008-11-27

 
 Prof. Maryke Labuschagne, head of the Plant Breeding Division in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of the Free State (UFS), was recently named best agriculturist by the Agricultural Writers SA, Old Mutual, Mutual & Federal and Nedbank during a prize-giving ceremony held in Stellenbosch. This year she also received an award and R30 000 prize-money from the Association for Cereal Science and Technology SA (CST-SA) for research and development, as well as a trophy and R100 000 prize-money from the National Science and Technology Forum (NSTF) for research capacity building over the past ten years. Here she is with Mr Alfonso Visser (left), a crop farmer from Hartswater on the Vaalharts irrigation scheme in the Northern Cape, who was named South Africa's farmer of the year, and Mr Marlon de Jager (right) from Aberdeen in the Eastern Cape, who was named national emerging farmer of the year.
Photo: Landbouweekblad
 

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