Representatives from the University of the Free State (UFS), the Central University of Technology and the Free State Higher Education Consortium attended the regional forum of the Council on Higher Education (CHO) on the Main Campus. The topic was government's involvement in higher education, institutional autonomy and academic freedom. The event was part of an investigation of a task team of the RHO into this topic.

Attending the forum were from the left Ms Ashley Symes (researcher from the CHO), Dr Adam Habib, (speaker) and Dr Maboreng Maharasoa (speaker).