Prof Petersen News Today

In a bid to strengthen collaboration between South Africa and UNESCO, the organisation’s Director General, Ms Audrey Azoulay, paid a visit to Funda UJabule teaching school at the University of Johannesburg (UJ)’s Soweto Campus on Tuesday April 16, 20

After seven years at the university, Professor Francis Peterson sadly steps down as vice-chancellor and principal of the University of the Free State.The Council of the University of Pretori...

The Centre for Mineral Biogeochemistry (CMBG) in the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences at the University of the Free State (UFS) showed off its new state-of-the-art facility at a “soft opening” to a select few guests which included the Vic

Instead of profiling their intellectual breakthroughs and recent innovations, many of our universities are plagued with nepotism, financial maladministration and fractious governance, writes Prof Francis Petersen.

Opinion article by Prof Francis Petersen, Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of the Free State Many South African universities are making the headlines for all the wrong reasons. Instead of profiling their intellectual breakthroughs and recent innovations, stories of intimidation, nepotism, financial maladministration, fractious governance, and even worse –…

A focus on the African continent is central to the University of the Free State’s (UFS) internationalisation strategy, which envisages an Africa-imbued internationalisation process that advances Africanisation and decolonisation, and includes a focus on expanding researcher networks across Africa. The UFS considers internationalisation, Africanisation, and decolonisation as complementary processes, and…

"This was so unexpected. Thank you very much for this honour. My children are very proud of me. This is the best thing that has ever happened to me. It has been wonderful experiences in Bloemfontein and at Kovsies."

A new estimates show that COVID-19 infections in the UK spiked by 43% in the week after the platinum jubilee celebrations.

BARNEY CALMAN: Having thankfully avoided the Covid virus (as far as I know) for almost two years, Ive decided its time to get it over with.

People should wait to use lateral flow tests until just before meeting up with others due to the infectiousness of the Omicron Covid variant, a public health expert has warned.