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16 March 2021 | Story Lacea Loader

All academic activities have been suspended on all UFS campuses from 17 to 22 March 2021. No online/face-to-face lectures/tests/assignments will take place until 23 March 2021, and the full academic programme will resume on this date.
This decision will allow the university management an opportunity to address outstanding matters regarding the admission of senior undergraduate students.
Administrative activities will continue during this time and the campuses are not closed. The university management is aware that sporadic disruptions of activities by small groups are still taking place on the Bloemfontein Campus.
 
Protection Services, with the assistance of private security, remains on high alert and is closely monitoring the situation on the campuses. The necessary safety and security plan, as well as contingency plans, are in place.
 

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Students from Virginia Tech at UFS
2007-06-07

 

The Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences at the University of the Free State (UFS) held a function on the Main Campus in Bloemfontein to welcome a group of 13 exchange students from Virginia Tech in the United States of America (USA). The group is visiting the university as part of an Ecology course. The faculty also bid farewell to the group of 16 exchange students who have been on the Main Campus since January this year. Attending the function were, from the left, front: Rockey Warren, Katie Lottinville, Ashley Wright, Prof. Leon van Rensburg (Professor in the Department of Soil, Crop and Climate Sciences at the UFS); back: Prof. Herman van Schalkwyk (Dean: Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences at the UFS).
Photo: Leonie Bolleurs
 

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