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Summer School 2021 going virtual
Good news in the wake of COVID-19 comes from the Centre for Extra-Mural Studies, which reports huge growth in programme viewership thanks to YouTube.
12 Aug 2020
Phakeng honoured with Toastmasters award
Vice-Chancellor Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng has been awarded the Toastmasters 2020 Communication and Leadership Achievement Award.
12 Aug 2020
UCT’s approach to emergency remote teaching and learning
UCT’s emergency remote teaching and learning plan required collective buy-in from role players across the university in order to run smoothly.
12 Aug 2020
Translating the geological record into isiXhosa
A project based in UCT’s Department of Geological Sciences is translating the country’s geological record into South African languages – starting with isiXhosa.
12 Aug 2020
Celebrating ‘exceptional’ women in sport
UCT’s ParaSports Club held its fourth annual Women in Sport event on Saturday, 8 August, to honour “exceptional” women in several sporting disciplines.
11 Aug 2020
Lessons in collaboration for COVID-19 healthcare workers
Staff from UCT’s Division of Emergency Medicine are integral members of the Western Cape’s frontline COVID-19 team.
11 Aug 2020
Teaching is like ‘creating ripples in a pond’
Recipient of a 2019 Distinguished Teacher Award Associate Professor Romy Parker is achieving the goals she set for herself when she began teaching 15 years ago.
11 Aug 2020
Responsible investments for a sustainable future
As responsible investment strategies are increasingly prioritised, explicit knowledge about environmental, social and governance factors is driving investment decisions.
11 Aug 2020
AI trained to study individual birds in wild populations
Using artificial intelligence, biologists can now train computers to recognise individual birds in wild populations by their feather formations – good news for conservation biology.
07 Aug 2020
Running into COVID-19 chaos
UCT’s Dr Lauren Lai King has been given an opportunity to show her mettle when she assumed the role of course convenor amid a pandemic.
07 Aug 2020
COVID-19: collective experiences
UCT’s Mandla Majola was diagnosed with COVID-19. After weeks of battling to overcome the illness, he was interviewed by iALARM colleague Myrna van Pinxteren and shared his story.
07 Aug 2020
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‘Economic inequality begets academic inequality’
The 54th TB Davie Memorial Lecture, delivered by Cornell University’s Professor Ravi Kanbur, explored the implications of rising inequality for academic freedom.
06 Aug 2020
Avoid crowds with this app
The Crowd app is the brainchild of two UCT alumni who hope to assist their fellow South Africans with identifying busy public locations.
06 Aug 2020
Robin DiAngelo on white privilege, supremacy and fragility
In a dialogue co-hosted by UCT, Dr Robin DiAngelo, author of the bestseller White Fragility, unpacked concepts like structural racism, white privilege and white supremacy.
06 Aug 2020
The systemic suffocation of black people
In his contribution to a recent dialogue on racism, discrimination and inequality, jointly hosted by UCT, Dr Wilhelm Verwoerd tracked the religious roots of white supremacy.
06 Aug 2020
End the world; end anti-blackness
In a critical dialogue on racism and inequality, UCT lecturer Dr Mandisa Haarhoff said it was time to end the world as we know it.
06 Aug 2020
Survey reveals remote learning highs and lows
Results from a survey conducted among UCT students about their experiences of emergency remote teaching reveal the highs and lows of remote learning.
05 Aug 2020
‘A+ teacher’ wins 2020 Stella Clark Teachers’ Award
Hebert Gumbi, an accounting teacher at Mathunjwa High School in Vryheid in KwaZulu-Natal, is the “proud” recipient of the 2020 Stella Clark Teachers’ Award.
05 Aug 2020
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