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Taking the shock out of teaching maths
Dr Jonathan Shock, who convenes a dreaded first-year mathematics course, was one of six DTA awardees for 2016.
15 Mar 2017
Unbundling higher education
15 Mar 2017
Women are leading the way in HIV research
There is a saying in South Africa: Wathint’ abafazi, wathint’ imbokodo.
14 Mar 2017
Medicine and science in harmony after seven years
Growing up in a missionary family where he was exposed to the sick and vulnerable in rural communities...
14 Mar 2017
Medicine and science in harmony after seven years
Growing up in a missionary family where he was exposed to the sick and vulnerable in rural communities, Matthew Amoni always knew he wanted to be a doctor and help people. But he also loved the thrill of inventing things and fell in love with aeronautical engineering at a science fair.
14 Mar 2017
#BlackGirlMagic for the literary world
UCT alumnus Dr Kopano Matlwa Mabaso is a medical doctor and published author who is renowned for her two novels: Coconut and Spilt Milk.
14 Mar 2017
O-Week 2017
O-Week introduces first-year students to UCT, with orientation programmes running in faculties, residences and university service offices. But more than this, it’s a chance for them to join sport clubs and student societies and to get to know their fellow freshers.
14 Mar 2017
Young African penguins are dying because they can’t find the fish they need
When young African penguins leave their nests for the first time they do so alone, without any guidance from their parents .
13 Mar 2017
The power and politics of prefixes
Using the correct prefixes when referring to local languages in English is a matter of both linguistic and political necessity, says UCT linguist Dr Mantoa Motinyane-Masoko.
13 Mar 2017
A pan-African approach to leadership
13 Mar 2017
UCT researchers discover heart-attack gene
Fifty years after South Africa performed the world’s first successful heart transplant‚ researchers at UCT’s Hatter Institute for Cardiovascular Research in Africa (HICRA), through global collaboration, have identified a new gene that is a major cause of sudden death among young people and athletes.
13 Mar 2017
Decolonising the curriculum: it’s in the detail, not just in the definition
In the two years since student protests kicked off at South Africa’s universities, people have become increasingly interested in what decolonisation means.
13 Mar 2017
Africa's first design-thinking school launched at UCT
In an era of intense change, where it's difficult to predict which jobs will exist in the next 20 years, applying the same solutions to existing societal challenges will no longer work.
13 Mar 2017
Meet mover and shaker Itumeleng Mpofu
One Day Leader SA is a leadership and debate reality show that airs on SABC1 every Monday at 16:30. In the vigorous selection process, Itumeleng Mpofu, a third-year politics, philosophy and economics student, worked his way from the top 500 all the way up to the top six.
10 Mar 2017
Decolonising law series on the cards
10 Mar 2017
UCT researchers discover heart-attack gene
Fifty years after South Africa performed the world's first successful heart transplant‚ researchers at UCT's Hatter Institute for Cardiovascular Research in Africa (HICRA), through global collaboration, have identified a new gene that is a major cause of sudden death among young people and athletes. Maryam Fish‚ Gasnat Shaboodien and Sarah Kraus make up the all-female UCT team that made the discovery.
10 Mar 2017
The extinctions MOOC
10 Mar 2017
New ranking shows which SA banks contribute most to systemic risk
09 Mar 2017
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