![]() One is situated in Bloemfontein, referred to as South Campus, and the other in the former homeland QwaQwa that was, until 2003, part of the University of the North. The university also has two satellite campuses. The university's Bloemfontein Campus is near the city centre. This decision was jointly challenged by civil rights group AfriForum and Solidarity (South African trade union) but the decision to remove Afrikaans was upheld by the Constitutional Court of South Africa in 2017 when the judgment favored the university's new language policy which has been implemented since then. However, the university decided to make English the primary medium of instruction in 2016. Although a bilingual language policy (Afrikaans & English) were introduced since 1993 it was formalized in 2003. The name of the university again changed in 2001 to the University of the Free State as it is known today. In 1950 the University of the Orange Free State (UOFS) was established and the official medium language was Afrikaans. Language activists in favor of Afrikaans made it possible for the language to be accepted as one of the subjects at the college as a "supplementary subject to Dutch" in 1919 when Afrikaans became a popular subject. However, Dutch was one of the subjects taught at the college from the very beginning. Therefore, when the Grey University College was founded in 1904, the language medium was English. In 2004, the university celebrated its centenary.Īfter the defeat of the Boers by the British in 1902 the Orange Free State became known as the Orange River Colony during which time the official language was changed from Dutch to English. In February 2001, the university's name changed to the University of the Free State, which was adopted to reflect the real character of the institution and its environment. Today, the University of the Free State boasts more students than ever in its history. Subsequent to the adoption in 1999 of a new university statute, the UFS entered a significant growth period. In 1993, it adopted a system of parallel-medium tuition. ![]() The university was declared a full-fledged, independent university in 1950, and the name was again changed to the University of the Orange Free State. In the late 1940s, the medium of instruction was changed to Afrikaans. The name was changed to the University College of the Orange Free State-the Afrikaans version of this name change is the source of the word used to this day to refer to students of the university ("Kovsies"). Initially, the medium of instruction was English, but later this changed to be bilingual and included Afrikaans. UNISA's trusteeship ended in 1949 when the Orange Free State University received a charter as a university. One of the colleges that were under UNISA's trusteeship was Grey University College, Bloemfontein. UNISA, at the time, was an "umbrella" or federal institution with its seat in Pretoria, playing an academic trusteeship role for several colleges that eventually became autonomous universities. In terms of the modern South African university system, the University of the Free State owes its formal emergence to the University of South Africa (UNISA), itself established as an autonomous university by legislation in 1916. In 1910, the Parliament of the Orange River Colony passed legislation declaring the GUC an official educational institution in the fields of the Arts and Sciences. In 1906 the tertiary part of Grey College became known as the Grey University College (GUC), but shortly thereafter the school and college parted ways. ![]() The long-held dream of an institution of higher education in the Free State became a reality in 1904 when the Grey College first accepted matriculants for a full B.A. The first black university vice-chancellor was appointed in 2010. Initially a whites-only precinct, the university was fully de-segregated in 1996. The university has two satellite campuses. It was declared an independent Afrikaans-language university in 1950 and the name was changed to the University of the Orange Free State. ![]() It was first established as an institution of higher learning in 1904 as a tertiary section of Grey College. The University of the Free State ( Sesotho: Yunivesithi ya Freistata, Afrikaans: Universiteit van die Vrystaat) is a multi-campus public university in Bloemfontein, the capital of the Free State and the judicial capital of South Africa. ![]() Qwaqwa Campus ( Phuthaditjhaba, Free State) ![]()
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