Celebrating 85 years of preparing students for life

The Faculty of Education celebrated 85 years of teaching, learning and research with a week-long programme that challenged body and mind and culminated in a gala dinner.

The Faculty of Education celebrated its 85th anniversary with several events that took place in October 2022. The week-long celebrations started with a Faculty Research Day showcasing different research projects that academics are engaged in or that were recently completed. This was followed by an awards ceremony during which the Faculty celebrated researchers who had excelled in the area of journal outputs as well as supervisors with the highest numbers of postgraduate students who had graduated in the minimum time.

Postgraduate students were invited to attend a Research Indaba, during which they also presented their work. This was followed by another awards ceremony at which postgraduates received different awards in categories such as novice research; research in progress;