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24 August 2021
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Story Amanda Tongha
In a year marked by a global pandemic, the University of the Free State (UFS) has made great strides in research, teaching, and impactful engagement.
Our 2020 journey has seen many staff members providing services to advance public knowledge of COVID-19 for the greater good of South Africa. We have produced top-rated scientists, boasting six SARChI research chairs and three A-rated scholars in our world-class workforce. Our various initiatives to ensure student success continue to bear fruit, with current and former students making their mark in the world. One such example is Qinisani Qwabe, a PhD student in the Centre for Sustainable Agriculture, Rural Development and Extension, who was selected in the education category of the Mail & Guardian Top 200 Young South Africans. He was also chosen to represent South Africa at a BRICS conference in Russia.
You can read these and other facts and figures in ‘Our 2020 Journey’ publication.
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Faculty of Law serious about research
2009-03-13
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Staff from the Faculty of Law at the University of the Free State (UFS) recently attended a workshop presented by Prof. Amanda Lourens, Director: Research Support at the North-West University. The faculty, which is involved in Strategic Academic Cluster 3, namely Transformation in highly diverse societies, is serious about their involvement in research and invited Prof. Lourens to share best practices with them. Amongst others they discussed the positioning and involvement of the faculty in the Strategic Academic Clusters of the UFS as well as the possibility to develop a faculty cluster. At the occasion were, from the left: Prof. Loot Pretorius, Department of Constitutional Law and Philosophy of Law, Prof. Lourens, and Prof. Gerard Fick, Department of Private Law.
Photo: Leonie Bolleurs |