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VC’s Fees Commission report appeal and other updates
24 Oct 2017
Women athletes talk sport on campus
UCT’s Student Sports Union will host a talk about women in sport on 24 October at 18:00 in the PD Hahn Building annex on upper campus.
24 Oct 2017
Money woes force South Africa to revisit how it rewards researchers
The National Research Foundation recently announced that it will dramatically scale back the “incentive” funding it offers to rated researchers.
24 Oct 2017
Safety of medicines and vaccines in pregnancy under the spotlight at UCT workshop
The University of Cape Town's Centre for Infectious Diseases Epidemiology and Research (CIDER) recently hosted an innovative workshop aimed at building capacity in Africa for the surveillance of poor birth outcomes by developing the science of teratovigilance.
24 Oct 2017
Master’s student at the World Economic Forum
Master’s student Shamiso Kumbirai will be a representative of southern African youth at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos in 2018.
23 Oct 2017
Student entrepreneurs enact change through education
Student entrepreneur Jono Field signed contracts with his first two tutors on the bonnet of his dad’s car in 2015. Now he and partner Kosta Kappatos manage 90 tutors.
23 Oct 2017
UCT preparing for a water-sensitive campus
The current drought is an opportunity for UCT to use its water-sensitive urban-design expertise to showcase what it means to be a water-sensitive campus.
23 Oct 2017
Inaugural Lecture: Professor Maano Ramutsindela
VC Dr Max Price writes to the UCT community about an inaugural lecture that will be given by Professor Maano Ramutsindela.
23 Oct 2017
In remembrance: Malvern Engel
VC Dr Max Price writes to the UCT community about the death of a staff member.
23 Oct 2017
UCT Vice-Chancellor appeals for release of Fees Commission report
The University of Cape Town Vice-Chancellor, Dr Max Price, has expressed grave concern that the President has not yet released the report of the Commission of Inquiry into Higher Education and Training (Fees Commission) established nearly 24 months ago.
23 Oct 2017
UCT student to represent southern African at the World Economic Forum
The University of Cape Town's Shamiso Kumbirai, a master's candidate in the Department of Civil Engineering, has been selected to represent the voice of the southern African youth at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos in 2018.
23 Oct 2017
UCT Philosophy Department statement on the Rocking the Daisies concession
UCT’s Philosophy Department releases a statement outlining their position on the controversial decision to offer a concession for students attending Rocking the daisies.
20 Oct 2017
Open letter
Response to VC’s recent communication about DVC smear email
William Daniels writes a letter to Dr Max Price to address the way in which the Vice-Chancellor handled the public communication about the recent email smearing DVC Phakeng.
20 Oct 2017
Open letter
Why Cape Town’s drought was so hard to forecast
Cape Town’s drought and associated water shortage has officially escalated to the level of a disaster, which comes with severe water restrictions.
20 Oct 2017
Republished
Prof Mayosi elected to US National Academy of Medicine
The dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, Professor Bongani Mayosi, has been elected to the US National Academy of Medicine.
20 Oct 2017
Lessons in innovation and intervention
Professor Ulrike Rivett traversed 17 years of ICT4D research in her inaugural lecture: “ICT for development: the good intentions of the mobile phone”.
20 Oct 2017
UCT hosts public lectures on water challenges
The University of Cape Town's Future Water Research Institute and the Centre for Bioprocess Engineering Research (CeBER) will today, Friday 20 October 2017, jointly host 2 public lectures under the theme
20 Oct 2017
SHAWCO Health’s new president
Fifth-year medical student James van Duuren is the newly appointed president of SHAWCO Health for 2018.
19 Oct 2017
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