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08 April 2020 | Story Prof Francois Vreÿ, and Prof Hussein Solomon

The international response to the Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) as a health security threat stimulated an international response that commenced with drastic, but localised actions in China, but responses rapidly manifested in more extreme measures in the rest of the world. Amidst international efforts imposing extraordinary national and international movement restrictions and a rush to find a medical cure, two questions arise. First, how does COVID-19 as a health security threat feature within the global security debate and second, how to explain the harsh responses that one observes.

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Workshop on research culture
2006-11-22

The Centre for Higher Education Studies and Development (CHESD) at the University of the Free State (UFS) presented a workshop on research leadership and how to build a culture of research and publishing in an academic department on the Main Campus in Bloemfontein.
 

Here are, from the left: Ms Yolandé Goosen (Research Assistant at the UFS Department of Pediatrics and Child Health), Ms Yu-Fang Wen (Lecturer at the UFS Department of Mercantile Law), Prof Jonathan Jansen (Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Pretoria and presenter of the workshop) and Ms Annette Prins (organiser from the Division of Performance Management and Staff Development at the CHESD).

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