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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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UFS student's essay nominated for Berlin Roundtables
2010-02-22
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Ms Chrismi-Rinda Kotze
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An essay by Ms Chrismi-Rinda Kotze, a staff member and student at the University of the Free State's (UFS) Unit for Language Management, has been selected for the 12th Berlin Roundtables on “Cultural Pluralism Revisited: Religious and Linguistic Freedoms”. The focus of this theme is on religious and linguistic minority rights and the challenges of multicultural societies.
Her essay entitled The Linguistic Landscape as Mechanism in Multicultural Societies, focuses on the importance of the written language in the public space as a mechanism with which to regulate and develop a multicultural society as it is a means of access to participation in society.
The Berlin Roundtables on Transnationality are international conferences that consist of workshops and lecture series for 30 to 65 participants selected by an international jury based on essay competitions. It provides a forum for international young academics and journalists to discuss the political and social challenges facing a global civil society.
At the end of each Roundtable, the Irmgard Coninx Foundation will award up to three participants a three-month research grant at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) and the Humboldt University in Berlin.
They are jointly organised by the Irmgard Coninx Foundation, WZB and the Humboldt University Berlin.
The Roundtables will take place from 7–11 April 2010 in Berlin.