This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. The duty of a student is to ask questions and be the makers of their own reality.Student's need to embrace their future in practical terms.

Lis Lange is currently Acting Vice-Rector: Academic at the University of the
Free State where she holds a substantive position as Senior Director heading
the Directorate for Institutional Research and Academic Planning. Before
this, she was the Executive Director (2006-2010) of the Higher Education
Quality Committee of the Council of Higher Education (CHE), and Acting
CEO of the same organisation between August 2007 and April 2008. She
has been involved in the development and implementation of science and
technology and higher education policy in South Africa for a decade and a
half, working in different capacities in the Human Sciences Research Council,
the National Research Foundation and the Council on Higher Education. Her
major concern in both research and practice is the role of higher education
in the development of democratic societies based on social justice. Dr Lange
studied in Argentina, Mexico and South Africa, where she obtained a PhD in
South African history from the University of the Witwatersrand.

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