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Prof Paul Fouche

The Dean of the Faculty of the Humanities, Prof Heidi Hudson, has the pleasure of inviting you to the inaugural lecture of Prof Paul Fouché in the Department of Psychology. 

 
Event details:
Date: Wednesday 1 June 2022
Time: 17:30 SAST
Venue: Equitas Auditorium, UFS Bloemfontein Campus 

RSVP before or on 27 May 2022 to Anneke Diesel, +27 51 401 9314 or email denobilia@ufs.ac.za 

 

Subject: 
Understanding Greatness: Dissecting the eminent personality from a psychobiographical approach

 

About the Speaker: 

Paul Fouché has been employed at the UFS since 2007. Currently, he is a professor and a registered counselling psychologist with the HPCSA and an active member of the Psychological Society of South Africa. He is also an NRF C-rated researcher. As research supervisor/co-supervisor, he has graduated 115 postgraduate students. 

He served on the editorial committee of Acta Academica, was guest editor of the Journal of Psychology in Africa, and co-editor of special issues on psychobiography for Europe’s Journal of Psychology and two books by Springer. Paul is the coordinator of the BPsych Honours programme and lectures in the Applied Master’s programme.

Academic credentials: 
PhD: 1999, Psychobiography, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa 
MSocSc cum laude: 1993, Counselling Psychology, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa 
BSocSc Honours cum laude: 1990, Psychology, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa 
BSocSc: 1989, Psychology, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa


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New DIRAP Directorate will path way for UFS
2010-08-13

Seen at the launch are, from the left: Prof. Gert van Zyl, Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences; Prof. Driekie Hay, Vice-Rector: Teaching and Learning; and Dr Louis van der Westhuizen, Acting Director, DIRAP.
Photo: Leatitia Pienaar.

A Directorate for Institutional Research and Academic Planning (DIRAP), a reconfiguration of the UFS Planning Unit, was launched at the University of the Free State (UFS). DIRAP will be at the forefront surveying and paving the way for the UFS’s strategic and academic planning, management information, institutional research and quality assurance.

The functions will be organised in a more integrated and structured manner than had previously been the case.

Dr Louis van der Westhuizen is the Acting Director of DIRAP, and the sub-directorates comprise Institutional Information, Quality Assurance, Teaching and Learning, Programme Design and Approval, and Student Development and Success.

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