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12 May 2023
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Story Mbali Moiketsi
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Visiting universities and learning more about them is an essential part of prospective students’ journey into higher education. The University of the Free State (UFS) has launched the Kovsie-Connect Virtual Experience.
This is an initiative of the Student Recruitment Services in partnership with the Office for International Affairs to give the modern-day prospective student an experience of what the University of the Free State can offer. The Kovsie-Connect Virtual Experience is an interactive online platform that allows prospective students to engage and learn more about the UFS from the comfort of their own homes.
The Virtual Experience is tailor-made for local and international prospective students with the aim of providing an overview of academic offerings, facilities, and student life through a series of online documents, pre-recorded videos, and virtual tours.
The virtual format allows for easy accessibility and convenience, as potential students can attend the event from anywhere in the world without the need for travel. This experience aims to provide students with the information they need to make an informed decision and Choose the UFS!
Click here to access the tour.
More buy in to economics training in schools
2006-11-23
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Departments of Education from five more provinces in South Africa bought in to the outreach programme of the National Council on Economic Education (NCEE) in the United States of America’s (USA) effort to improve the quality of the training in Economics of teachers and lecturers across the world. The University of the Free State's (UFS) Department of Agricultural Economics is the initiator of this co-operative agreement with the NCEE.
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| Attending a workshop in Bloemfontein where heads of the various departments of education were present and received information on this project, were, from the left: Dr Radhika Bridgemohan (Department of Education: KwaZulu-Natal), Dr Patricia Elder (NCEE Vice-President in Washington DC), Dr Thula Mbatha (Chief Director in the Department of Education in KwaZulu-Natal), Dr Frank Peters (Director: Curriculums in the Department of Education in the Eastern Cape); back: Prof Klopper Oosthuizen (Department Agricultural Economics at the UFS and initiator and co-ordinator of the project).< |