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UCT to host VC robing ceremony and announce Memorial Hall renaming
The University of Cape Town will host a media briefing during which the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng, will make a historic announcement on the renaming of the Memorial Hall.
12 Dec 2018
UCT ceremonies to take graduands tally to over 7000
Approximately 1885 students - including 118 Doctoral and 780 Master's graduands - are scheduled to graduate during the ceremonies to be held in the Memorial Hall at the University of Cape Town from 13-14 December. This will take the total number of students who graduated at UCT this year to over 7000.
12 Dec 2018
Gugulethu-born UCT graduand uses education to rise above challenges
Sonwabo Ngcelwane will receive his master's degree in Sociology from the University of Cape Town (UCT), with distinction, this week. It is his third degree and fifth tertiary qualification. From a young age, Ngcelwane has seen education as the key to rising above one's circumstances - no matter how challenging. Whenever he has faced obstacles, throwing himself into his studies has helped him gain perspective and maintain an even keel.
12 Dec 2018
A painful family tragedy produces a master's degree for UCT graduand
An unspeakable family tragedy has yielded a master's degree for University of Cape Town (UCT) student Mabuyi Mhlanga after her young daughter was killed instantly after being hit by a car while crossing the road two years ago in Durban. Mhlanga then decided to seek answers and healing by throwing herself into a master's degree related to road safety around schools.
11 Dec 2018
Young UCT scientist joins top fellowship to advance TB research
Emerging scientist from the University of Cape Town (UCT), Mandy Mason, is one of five scientists to be selected from around Africa among the first cohort of the prestigious Crick African Network (CAN) fellows. The scientist is looking forward to broadening her network and knowledge in the field of Tuberculosis (TB).
10 Dec 2018
UCT student receives L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Doctoral fellowship
University of Cape Town (UCT) PhD candidate, Lerato Hlaka, received a PhD fellowship at the L'Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science programme ceremony in Nairobi, Kenya last night, 6 December 2018.
07 Dec 2018
Global academic collaboration - a first for medical and health humanities in Africa
Medical humanities is a well-established field in the UK and USA but an emerging field on the African continent. The BMJ's Medical Humanities Journal will soon publish the first English-language special issue to deal exclusively with work on and about Medical and Health Humanities (MHH) in Africa. The Journal will showcase the work of new and established academics and practitioners working in the field in the December 2018 special issue and accompanying series of blogs and podcasts.
05 Dec 2018
Students with disabilities getting a helping hand in their studies
The Disability Service at the University of Cape Town (UCT) is playing a critical role in enabling students with disabilities cope with their studies, thanks to funding from the FirstRand Foundation (Tshikululu Social Investments).
05 Dec 2018
UCT academic only African representative at World Economic Forum Global Health Council
Associate Professor and director of the Health Economics Unit at the University of Cape Town (UCT) John Ataguba has been selected to the World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Future Council on Health and Healthcare.
04 Dec 2018
UCT to increase tuition fees by 8% in 2018
The University of Cape Town has released tuition and accommodation fee increases for 2018. Please feel free to source quotes from the statement below from UCT Vice-Chancellor, Dr Max Price.
22 Dec 2017
UCT study uncovers the power of mobile phones for refugees
Mobile phone use provides valuable opportunities to enable refugees to negotiate ways to participate in the information society. This is according to University of Cape Town postgraduate commerce student Kasky Bisimwa Bacishoga.
21 Dec 2017
Trending and topical: Summer School 2018 is here
Summer School 2018 has its finger placed firmly on the pulse. The annual public education programme (which offers short courses for non-degree purposes) includes a session each with investigative journalist Jacques Pauw, founding member of Umkhonto we Sizwe Ronnie Kasrils and former top-ranking government official in Nelson Mandela Bay, Crispian Olver. Each will speak to their recently released books, which present damning indictments of the political status quo.
19 Dec 2017
High number of doctoral and Master's graduates at UCT graduation ceremonies
The University of Cape Town (UCT) will cap approximately 480 doctoral and Master's graduands at the 3 ceremonies scheduled to take place on Wednesday, 20 December 2017 in the Memorial Hall.
14 Dec 2017
UCT's new study provides insight into nitrogen pollution in False Bay
Despite a wealth of research on False Bay, little is known about the chemical make-up of its water, how this varies seasonally and how its vigorous circulation prevents stagnation. But a new study by UCT oceanographer Assistant Professor Sarah Fawcett on nitrogen pollution in the country's biggest natural bay hopes to change that.
13 Dec 2017
UCT announces senior appointments
The University of Cape Town has announced a number of appointments at senior leadership level. These include the appointment of Professor Lis Lange as the Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Teaching and Learning, with effect from 1 February 2018.
11 Dec 2017
Invite: UCT academics launch book on high performance in hospital management
The University of Cape Town will host a book launch to celebrate the release of Professors Edda and Peter Weimann's new book
06 Dec 2017
UCT law student selected for the prestigious Schwarzman scholarship
UCT postgraduate law student, Lindokuhle Ntuli, has been chosen among the 142 Schwartzman Scholars from all over the world. Ntuli, a lawyer with a Bachelor of Laws Degree (LLB) succeeded in the rigorous selection process to be part of the third cohort of this scholarship that attracted over 4 000 applicants.
05 Dec 2017
World's first centre to tackle more than 600 000 African fungal infection-related deaths set up by University of Aberdeen at the University of Cape Town
The world's first international research centre for tackling fungal infections which kill around 1.3 million people globally every year has been set up in South Africa by the University of Aberdeen in conjunction with the University of Cape Town.
20 Dec 2016
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