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(IKS) in November 2005. The task teamis to start the process with a workshop toinvestigate ways in which IKS can be coordinatedand integrated into curricula.A new book on Indigenous Knowledge was published in 2006: Paging through it are,from the left: Dr Otsile Ntsoane, acting Director of IKS at the Department of Scienceand Technology, and Prof. Philip Nel, Director of Africa Studies and guest editor ofthe publication.Teaching excellenceDr Irene Kamara from the Departmentof Chemistry became the first blackwoman to receive the Faculty ofNatural and Agricultural Sciences’award for teaching excellence. Herskills as a lecturer are underlined bythe fact that many Afrikaans-speakingstudents prefer to attend her classes,which are presented in English.’n Koshuisherplasingsbeleid, wat in2006 ingestel gaan word en sal vereis datkoshuisinwoners aan sekere kriteria,waaronder akademiese prestasie, moetvoldoen om vir herplasing te kwalifiseer,sal hopelik ook ’n uitwerking opdie deurvloeisyfer hê.Integration of IndigenousKnowledge SystemsAs part of the university’s initiative topromote a clear Africa orientation in curricula,the Executive Management approvedthe establishment of a task teamfor Indigenous Knowledge SystemsAs a precursor to the IKS initiativethe UFS presented a colloquium on IKSin 2004 in cooperation with the NationalResearch Foundation. In October 2005the Programme for Africa Studieslaunched a comprehensive collection ofthese papers as a special edition ofIndilinga: African Journal of IndigenousKnowledge Systems. Prof. Philip Nel,Director of Africa Studies, was the guesteditor.The publication displays the rangeof burning questions that needs to beresolved in this field, such as mainstreamingIKS in academic debate andpractice, recognition and protection ofthe knowledge holders, bio-prospectingand bio-piracy, bio- and ethnic healing,and the lack of textbooks and field manuals.It contains papers by internationalexperts on IKS such as Prof. FritzWallner from Austria and Prof. GayatriSpivak, foremost theorist from India.Vernuwing in onderrigDie Gesondheidsberoeperaad van Suid-Afrika het volle akkreditering aan dieFakulteit Gesondheidswetenskappe sevyfjaarprogram vir die graad MB.Ch.B.verleen. Die fakulteit se Skool vir Geneeskundewas die eerste in die land wat, inooreenstemming met internasionale tendense,die verkorte kurrikulum virgeneeskunde-studente ingestel het. Dieeerste groep wat hulle vir dié programingeskryf het, het einde 2004 graad gekry.Van 2006 af word ’n magistergraadin Sportgeneeskunde by die Skool virGeneeskunde aangebied. ’n Borgskapvan R750 000 van die mediesesorggroep26