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28 June 2022 | Story Nonsindiso Qwabe | Photo ALBERT VAN BILJON
Leanne Manas and Prof Francis Petersen
In conversation: Prof Petersen and Leanne Manas.

An outward-looking, globally competitive university that ranks among the top-tier universities in South Africa and on the continent, driven by a strong human-centred, diverse social-justice approach. This is at the heart of the vision Prof Francis Petersen, Rector and Vice-Chancellor of the UFS, shared with multi-award-winning news anchor Leanne Manas during a sit-down conversation on Friday 22 July 2022.

Prof Petersen reflected on the great strides and difficulties faced during his first term, as well as navigating the UFS through the COVID-19 pandemic to position the institution in a strategic and focused manner as a university of choice on the continent and in other parts of the globe.




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International MDS student gets scholarship
2010-02-17

Here he is pictured with Prof. Lucius Botes, the Programme Director for the MDS and the Dean of the Faculty of the Humanities.
Photo: Supplied


A postgraduate student from the University of the Free State, Mr Kuela Kiema, has received a scholarship from the University of Tromsø in Norway. The scholarship, worth R15 000 per year, will cover all his class fees for the two years that he will spend there in the multi-disciplinary programme of Masters in Development Studies (MDS). Mr Kiema is a citizen of Botswana.

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