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07 January 2020
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Dear Prospective UFS Student,
Please note this important information regarding 2020 admission and registration:
- Matric results will only be released on 8 January 2020. The UFS will then evaluate all applications for admission.
- Therefore, admission offers will be made from 9 January 2020 onwards.
- Final decisions are made subject to the availability of space, academic results, and other entry requirements where applicable.
- Communication to inform you of your admission status for each programme that you have applied for will be sent from 9 January 2020.
Registration:
- Registration information will be sent once you have accepted the admission offer.
- Bloemfontein Campus first-year students must report for registration from 20 to 24 January 2020.
- No assistance is available before this time.
- Qwaqwa Campus first-year students must report for registration on 9 January 2020.
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Telephone: +27 51 401 2584 | +27 83 645 2454
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UFS agriculture celebrates 50-year reunion
2009-05-27
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As part of the half-century celebrations of the agricultural section of the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences at the University of the Free State, the Department of Soil, Crop and Climate Sciences and the Department of Animal, Wildlife and Grassland Sciences recently held their joint 50-year reunion. The reunion was attended by alumni, former staff, current staff and current students. Big names in the agricultural industry who are associated with the faculty also attended the event. At the function were, from the left, front: Prof. Boet Human (former departmental chair of Agronomy), Prof. Hennie Heyns (former lecturer in Animal Sciences) and Prof. Wynand van Rensburg (former departmental head in Grassland Sciences). Back: Prof. Piet Wilke (former departmental chair of Animal Sciences and Dean of the Agricultural Faculty), Mr Kotie van den Berg (former lecturer in Grassland Sciences and currently a farmer in the Murraysburg district), Prof. Jimmy de Jager (former departmental chair of Agrometeorology).
Photo: Stephen Collett |