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25 April 2022
Photo Jan van der Walt
From the left are Eduan du Plessis (Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting and recipient of the SAIPA Prize for Best BCom third year student in Accounting), Johanco Viljoen (Bachelor of Science: Botany and Zoology), Louis van der Walt (Bachelor of Accounting), and Thinus Greyling (Bachelor of Commerce: Investment Management and Banking).
Seventeen years of friendship, with four degrees among them. This is what friends Eduan du Plessis, Johanco Viljoen, Louis van der Walt, and Thinus Greyling celebrated during the University of the Free State’s April graduation ceremony. The four friends – who started their academic careers together at Grey Pre-Primary in 2006 and matriculated at Grey College in 2018 – obtained qualifications during the graduation ceremonies of the faculties of Natural and Agricultural Sciences and Economic and Management Sciences.
Regional forum of the Council on Higher Education
2006-05-12
Representatives from the University of the Free State (UFS), the Central University of Technology and the Free State Higher Education Consortium attended the regional forum of the Council on Higher Education (CHO) on the Main Campus. The topic was government's involvement in higher education, institutional autonomy and academic freedom. The event was part of an investigation of a task team of the RHO into this topic.
Attending the forum were from the left Ms Ashley Symes (researcher from the CHO), Dr Adam Habib, (speaker) and Dr Maboreng Maharasoa (speaker).