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Student Affairs host future UFS leaders during leadership conference
2018/2019 student leaders gather in the EBW Auditorium for the annual Leadership Conference

Newly elected 2018/2019 Kovsie student leaders, comprising the Student Representative Council (SRC), Residence Councils (RC), and Residence Assistants (RA), gathered in the EBW Auditorium for training during the annual Student Leadership Conference. This year’s conference was also privileged to be joined by the South Campus SRC members.

The Director: Student Affairs, Dr WP Wahl, kicked off the programme with a session highlighting the importance of creating value-driven communities. Pulane Malefane, Assistant Director: Residence Life, spoke about student leaders fulfilling their roles and responsibilities as RC and RA representatives.

The Dean of Student Affairs, Pura Mgolombane, delivered a presentation based on The Role of Student Leadership as Aligned to the Student Affairs Strategic Plan, Pedagogies and Policies. Students also enjoyed an inspirational talk about Lessons in Leadership: What Leadership Taught Me presented by UFS Council member, David Abbey. 

 
The conference concluded with a delightful dinner and networking session for Kovsie’s future leaders.

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World Wide Web discussed at UFS
2006-09-08

The eighth annual congress on World Wide Web applications was attended by about 200 delegates from countries across the world on the Main Campus of the University of the Free State (UFS) in Bloemfontein.   The congress was presented by the UFS and the Central University of Technology.  Topics like e-learning, e-business, e-governance and e-community were discussed.  A direct broadcast of the keynote address, delivered by Mr Stephen Downes from the National Research Council in Canada, was done by means of a Skypecast broadcast.

From the left:  Prof Teuns Verschoor (Vice-Rector: Academic Operations at the UFS), Mr Herbert Thomas (head of E-learning at the UFS) and Mr Downes.
Photo: Leonie Bolleurs

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