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11 November 2020 | Story Xolisa Mnukwa

 

Join the University of the Free State (UFS) Division of Student Affairs for the annual Student Affairs Week, where the division will showcase the programmes and services on offer! 

This includes your awareness and perceived relevance of various Student Affairs divisions as well as your participation in the programmes offered by the department.
 
For more information on Student Affairs’ services, you can visit Blackboard and click on the Student Affairs link for either the UFS Bloemfontein, Qwaqwa, or South Campuses. You will then have the option to follow the prompts that will take you on a tour of the Student Affairs division for the respective campuses.

Student Affairs would also like your input on preferred communication platforms, co-curricular programmes, and safety and security on campus. 

The division would furthermore appreciate your valued feedback through comments and recommendations on how to make your student life and experience better. 

Let your voice be heard – complete the 2020 Student Affairs Week Survey:


Accessible online from 12 to 13 November 2020.  

 

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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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