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Microscope donation helps learners to access the wonders of natural science

02 December 2019 | Story Leonie Bolleurs | Photo Leonie Bolleurs

Read more — Prof Koos Albertyn handing over a donation of eleven microscopes to Anzell Spelding, a teacher at Luckhoff Combined School.

With a donation of microscopes, the Department of Microbial, Biochemical and Food Biotechnology at the University of the Free State (UFS) recently contributed to better quality education for a group of 60 learners in the Life Sciences class at the Luckhoff Combined School.

Anzell Spelding, a teacher at the school – with a newly built science laboratory but little equipment – contacted the department a while ago to enquire whether they have any microscopes available to donate. As the department recently acquired a new set of microscopes for undergraduate teaching in the field of Microbiology, ten fully functional microscopes and two other microscopes (for parts) were donated to motivate the learners to choose science as a career.

“This donation puts scientific instruments in the hands of children at an early age, opening their eyes to the possibility of careers in science. Exposing learners to science at an early age can spark enthusiasm and a love of learning that might otherwise never appear,” said Koos Albertyn, Professor in the UFS Department of Microbial, Biochemical and Food Biotechnology.

“These microscopes will enable learners to look at specimens at a microscopic level and therefore access the wonders of natural science at the tiniest and most fascinating level,” he added.

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Workshops in copy writing

2005-10-06

The Department of Communication and Information Studies in partnership with the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, German and French at the University of the Free State (UFS) this week presented several work shops in copy writing primarily for students studying Integrated Marketing Communication.

The course in copy writing presented at the UFS expanded in such a way that partnerships and interdisciplinary cooperation with other parties such as the graphic design school DCM, the marketing agency Twotone, two national radio stations, RSG and SAFm and the Department of Music at the UFS were formed.

Some of the people involved in the interdisciplinary partnership who attended the workshop are from left Dr Angelique van Niekerk (Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, German and French at the UFS), Mr Jacques Coetzee (Marketing Manager at RSG), Mr Jeré Möller (associated to DCM Graphic Design School and post graduate student in Media Language at the UFS), Ms Dalmé Mulder (lecturer at the UFS Department of Communication and Information Studies) and Mr Anton Esterhuyse (lecturer in Music Technology at the UFS Department of Music.

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