<div dir="ltr"><h2><span>UFS set to appeal language policy ruling</span></h2>
<p class="gmail-lead">Yesterday, a court ruled in favour of lobby groups to stop a proposed change to UFS’s current language policy.</p>
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<span></span></p><p>JOHANNESBURG – The <a href="http://ewn.co.za/Topic/University-of-the-Free-State-UFS" target="_blank">University of the Free State</a> has confirmed it will appeal a High Court ruling to stop a proposed<a href="http://ewn.co.za/2016/07/22/Fedsas-UFS-language-policy-implicates-the-entire-education-sector" target="_blank"> change to its current language policy.</a></p>
<p>Yesterday, the High Court in Bloemfontein ruled in favour of<a href="http://ewn.co.za/2016/03/15/Solidarity--Afriforum-to-oppose-new-UFS-language-policy" target="_blank"> lobby groups, AfriForum and Solidarity, </a>to stop a proposed change to the university’s current language policy.</p>
<p>Earlier this year, the institution reached a unanimous decision to
make English the primary medium of instruction from next year.</p>
<p>But the lobby groups say the removal of Afrikaans as a medium of
instruction at the institution, was a violation of the Constitution.</p>
<p>The university’s spokesperson, Lacea Loader, says the ruling was wrong.</p>
<p>“The advice is that the High Court judgment is, with respect,
erroneous in relation to legal principles and factual matters which are
both fundamental and far reaching. The university is, under the
circumstance, to appeal the judgment to the Supreme Court of Appeal.”</p><p><a href="http://ewn.co.za/2016/07/22/UFS-set-to-appeal-language-policy-ruling">http://ewn.co.za/2016/07/22/UFS-set-to-appeal-language-policy-ruling</a><br></p><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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