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04 September 2019
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Story Rulanzen Martin
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Photo Sonia Small
With the second semester well underway, you may feel overwhelmed by the academic pressure and you aren’t sure how to find your way out of this maze. Some first-years are still trying to cope with the hectic academic workload, and our soon to be graduates are contemplating how they will find their feet in the post-university world.
The new edition of Kovsie Advice by the Advising Team in the Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL) would like to help you get ready for the busy academic times ahead. But they would also like to dedicate this edition to helping you align your tasks and efforts with the end goal – that dream job!
In this edition, ideas and resources are shared to help you align your academic journey with your career aspirations.
Enjoy the journey!
The UFS Advising team
Graduation excitement hits Qwaqwa
2016-05-06
More than 700 degrees, diplomas and certificates will be conferred to deserving Kovsies when the graduation season hits the Qwaqwa Campus on Friday 6 and Saturday 7 May 2016.
On Friday, Dr Mafu Rakometsi, the CEO of Umalusi, will address graduands from the Faculties of Education and of Natural and Agricultural Sciences. Umalusi is the Council for Quality Assurance in General and Further Education and Training.
The following day, Prof David Dickinson, a visiting academic, researcher and sociologist from the University of the Witwatersrand who is currently based on the Qwaqwa Campus, will speak to the graduands from the Faculties of the Humanities and of Economic and Management Sciences.
Among the degrees to be conferred will be five PhDs and seven Master’s degrees in the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences. One of the PhDs will be conferred posthumously