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14 May 2019 | Story Thabo Kessah | Photo Sonia Small
Dr Musawenkosi Saurombe
Dr Musawenkosi Saurombe.

The University of the Free State’s 2019 graduation season is continuing this week when over 800 degrees, diplomas, and certificates will be conferred during the Qwaqwa Campus graduation ceremonies on 17 and 18 May 2019.

All degrees in the Faculties of the Humanities, and Natural and Agricultural Sciences will be conferred on Friday. On Saturday, it will be the turn of the Faculties of Economic and Management Sciences, and Education.

Among the degrees to be conferred will be four PhDs and nine master’s degrees in the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, and one PhD and three master’s in the Faculty of Education. The Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences will also confer its very first PhD to the Assistant Dean, Dr Calvin Mudzingiri.

Three members of the current Student Representative Council (SRC) and six from the 2017-2018 group will be graduating.

Dr Musawenkosi Saurombe, Africa’s youngest PhD graduate, will address graduands on both days.


WATCH: 17 May 2019 Graduation Ceremony
10:00 Faculties of the Humanities and Natural and Agricultural Sciences 
All qualifications
Graduation Programme

18 May 2019
10:00 Faculties of Economic and Management Sciences and Education
All qualifications
Graduation Programme


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International Office fares well at IEASA conference
2007-09-17

Various accolades and recognitions were awarded to UFS staff during the recent International Educators’ Association of South Africa (IEASA) Conference in Port Elizabeth. Mr Vernon Collett, Registrar Student Academic Services at the UFS, was awarded the certificate of honour in support of IEASA’s goals, recognising his strategic and long-standing support of internationalisation in South Africa over many years. Mrs Jeanne Niemann, Senior Officer in the UFS Internationalisation Office, received the award for most outstanding international student support services individual, celebrating her unstinting support of, and assistance to, international students on the UFS Main Campus. Dr Aldo Stroebel, Head of Internationalisation at the UFS, was elected to the Executive Committee of the IEASA Council, the body responsible for the strategic and conceptual governance of the Association. Pictured here are: Ms Niemann (right), receiving her award from Ms Fazela Haniff, President of IEASA.
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