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Monique Tangah – this year’s winner of UFS ‘3MT’

21 October 2020 | Story Andre Damons | Photo Supplied

Monique Tangah_web read more — Monique Tangah (Economic and Management Sciences Faculty) won the PhD category of UFS Institutional Three-Minute Thesis competition hosted by the Postgraduate School.

Monique Tangah, a postgraduate student from the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences at the University of the Free State (UFS), will represent the university on 13 November 2020 at the National Three-Minute Thesis, also known as the ‘3MT’, competition after she won the UFS competition.

The UFS Postgraduate School hosted its Institutional 3MT on 9 October 2020 and winners chosen from each faculty competed against each other for the UFS Three-Minute Thesis title. Tangah, with her thesis titled, Cameroonian women’s empowerment through higher education: An African-feminist and Capability Approach Analysis, emerged victorious from a total of 20 students who are registered for their PhD and master's degrees. Tensions were high as the participants brought their research products of a very high standard forward in the virtual competition.

Willard Morgan, a student in the Faculty of Education, won the category for the Master’s Degree students with his title, Ideological representations of entrepreneurship in high school economic and management sciences textbooks.

The Three-Minute Thesis competition is an annual competition held at 200 universities across the world. It is open to PhD and master's students and challenges participants to present their research in just 180 seconds – in a way that is understood by an audience with no background in their specific research area.

Universities need to focus on the generation of new knowledge to solve critical problems in the country, continent and globally. The Three-Minute Thesis competition aims to achieve this by encouraging the increase of research output produced by master’s and PhD students.

Winners and runners-up of the UFS competition for 2020 are:

For the PhD category

Winner: Monique Tangah (Economic and Management Sciences Faculty)

1st runner-up: Tamson Foster (Natural and Agricultural Sciences Faculty)

2nd runner-up: Monique Basson (Humanities)

For the Master’s category

Winner: Willard Morgan (Education)

1st runner-up: Kyla Dooley (Natural and Agricultural Sciences Faculty)

2nd runner-up: Bonolo Makhalemele (Natural and Agricultural Sciences Faculty)

The National Three-Minute thesis will be hosted virtually on 13 November 2020. PhD finalists from South African universities will compete for the 3MT SA title. Whose research thesis will stand the test of time? Join to find out.

Date: 13 November 2020

Time: 10:00-13:00

Link: https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/405aa3ff84f54eec81557131b6bc2bfd

For more information, email Reabetswe Mabine at mabiner@ufs.ac.za

Willard Morgan (Education) was the winner of Master's category of this year’s UFS Institutional Three-Minute Thesis competition hosted by the Postgraduate School.

Bonolo Makhalemele (Natural and Agricultural Sciences Faculty) was the second runner-up

Monique Basson (Humanities) was the second runner-up in the PhD category.

Tamson Foster (Natural and Agricultural Sciences Faculty) was the first runner-up.

Kyla Dooley (Natural and Agricultural Sciences Faculty) was the first runner-up.

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Samantha excels as Dux student

2011-10-26

Samantha Renda-Dollman with Dr Choice Makhetha, the sponsor of the DUX Award trophy and Vice-Rector: External Affairs. Sharing the moment with them is Prof. Willie van Zyl, Assistant Campus Principal: Academic.
Photo: Thabo Kessah

Samantha Renda-Dollman, a BSc (Zoology) student at our Qwaqwa Campus has obtained 19 distinctions out of the 22 modules she has written since 2009.

This was revealed during the 2011 Annual Student Affairs Excellence Awards that were held at the Qwaqwa Campus to honour academic, sport and cultural excellence. Her hard work earned Samantha the prestigious Dux student award, which makes her the best overall academic performer of the entire student body at this campus of the UFS. This award was presented to her by its sponsor, Dr Choice Makhetha, Vice-Rector: External Affairs, herself a former Dux student.

Considering her achievements to date, Samantha agrees with the Greek philosopher, Aristotle, who believed that ”we are what we repeatedly do; excellence then is not an act, but a habit.” According to Samantha, one of her biggest achievements was winning a national poetry competition in 2000 whilst she was still at a primary school.

“I am happy to be the 2011 Dux student, as it proves that hard work indeed pays. If you commit yourself to working hard all the time and do lots of studying, then achievements like this will come your way,” she said.

Samantha’s immediate plan is to finish her degree and then venture into studying for an honours degree in entomology. “I would like to do my bit in the academic world. That’s where I think my future lies,” she concluded.

Samantha also received the award for the best-performing second-year student in the Faculty of Agricultural and Natural Sciences.

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