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UFS Registration 2023
Ready to register? Get informed on the registration process.

The University of the Free State is excited to welcome you in 2023. Curriculum advice and registration are from 30 January to 17 February for senior students, and from 3 to17 February for first-year students.

All first-year students are encouraged to download the first-year student registration guide to get more information about the registration process. Senior students need to read the senior student registration guide. The postgraduate student registration guide outlines the enrolment process for all programmes and modules available to postgraduate students.

Before starting the registration process, you must speak to your faculty to request curriculum advice. Read the registration activity guide, a user manual created to give you the support you need if you require technical assistance. The service request management user manual will direct you on how to receive the assistance you need if you run into technical problems.

 

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Look no further if you need answers to your registration-related questions. You can get help from the frequently asked questions (FAQ) platform. In addition, first-year students can also browse the first-year orientation webpage for more details on what to do before, during, and after registration. For further details on each topic, click the plus sign (+) on the orientation website.

 

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Justin J. Kennedy leads new Programme in Personal Excellence
2012-05-08

 

Justin J. Kennedy
Photo: Leatitia Pienaar
8 May 2012

Justin J. Kennedy has been appointed as the Manager of the new Programme in Personal Excellence. The programme is hosted in the Centre for Business Dynamics, the commercial unit of the Business School.

He studied at Rhodes University and the University of the Western Cape (UWC) and his research has been published in various health-related publications. His D.Psych. at the University of California migrated into a Ph.D. with research partner DiscoveryHealth.

While in New York, he was part of the research laboratory Helicor that developed the world’s first hand-held medical device for measuring heart-rate variability of the peripheral nervous system.  This device forms part of the programmes offered to control stress and improve cognitive performance as per clinical trials at the UCT Department of Human Biology. This programme evolved into developing the M.Sc. course work on occupational stress and Ph.D. student supervision.

The programme will launch during the university's Beneficiary Programme for Academic Heads of Department, and will focus on the neuro-economics of stress resilience.

Justin’s most recent research is peer review for an international leadership journal where he has presented evidence on how people can improve their cognitive performance and working memory by building functional stress resilience. The overall aim of the programme is to not only reduce stress, but to improve ability to be excellent at work.  Clinical results have shown it is beneficial for performance anxiety, insomnia, migraine, hypertension control and improved ability at cognitive tasks.  The aim of his work is to ensure that simple and practical skills provide academics, students and corporate participants with enduring, functional techniques that are easily applied in their working lives.

The programme has three roles: to offer services that equip students and academics; consulting services to corporate clients, financial groups and private hospitals; and publication of results in peer-reviewed journals. 

This initiative also envisages offering a postgraduate qualification and selected coaching qualifications.  For more info about corporate interventions and programmes open to students and academics, please contact Ansie Barnard at barnardam@ufs.ac.za.
 

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