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29 March 2021
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1. Its support of and confidence in the leadership of the Rector and Vice-Chancellor of the UFS, Prof Francis Petersen and his team, and duly recognises the efforts and results achieved at the University during the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the current nationwide student protest on the payment of student debt.
2. In this context, the Council also distances itself and deplores the statements made by the leadership of the
Institutional Student Representative Council (ISRC), on national television on Monday 15 March 2021, as it pertained to the demand for the immediate resignation of the Rector and Vice-Chancellor, and the statements pertaining to the Chancellor, Prof Bonang Mohale, and Chairperson of the Council, Dr Willem Louw. The Council notes that Mr Katleho Lechoo, President of the ISRC subsequently retracted the utterances.
3. The Council strongly affirms its confidence in the relationship between the leadership of the UFS and the ISRC and expresses its appreciation for the University leadership’s commitment to continuously engage with students about matters of concern to them. The Council furthermore encourages positive and constructive engagement by the ISRC with the University leadership, as this contributes to shared-understanding of the challenges faced by the South African higher education sector and the governance of the UFS.
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.
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