Chair in the Economics of Social Policy​​ renewed

Posted by Melt van Schoor on 2017-08-19

The NRF has recognised the excellent results of Prof Servaas van der Berg and his research group by renewing funding for his research chair in the economics of social policy for a further five years. The research group is justly proud of the high quality research outputs it has produced in focus areas such as education and health policy, and in particular the completion of 16 PhDs over the five year period.

Read more about this story on the University's news page and follow the group's research on the ReSEP webpage.

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