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<h1>UFS ready to defend new language policy</h1><h1>The University of the Free State says it is ready to defend its new
language policy. This comes after AfriForum and Solidarity threatened
to challenge the matter in court.<br></h1></div>
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The Freedom Front Plus has also urged Afrikaans speaking parents and students to withhold fee payments.<br>
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This comes after the university council resolved that as from next year
the language of instruction and administration would be English.<br>
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Vice Chancellor Professor Jonathan Jansen says all the stakeholders were consulted before the decision was made.<br>
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“We have had of the most comprehensive processes for the review of
language policy over several months in every step of the way. We checked
on if is this process is correct, is it fair, is it legal is it
Constitutional? Nothing happened in the process that put the university
at risk of a challenge from anywhere." <br><br><a href="http://www.sabc.co.za/news/a/52ba33804c0f6b03a8c6ad86af38e8be/UFS-ready-to-defend-new-language-policy-20160317">http://www.sabc.co.za/news/a/52ba33804c0f6b03a8c6ad86af38e8be/UFS-ready-to-defend-new-language-policy-20160317</a><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">**************************************<br>N.b.: Listing on the lgpolicy-list is merely intended as a service to its members<br>and implies neither approval, confirmation nor agreement by the owner or sponsor of the list as to the veracity of a message's contents. Members who disagree with a message are encouraged to post a rebuttal, and to write directly to the original sender of any offensive message. A copy of this may be forwarded to this list as well. (H. Schiffman, Moderator)<br><br>For more information about the lgpolicy-list, go to <a href="https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/" target="_blank">https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/</a><br>listinfo/lgpolicy-list<br>*******************************************</div>
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