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Extend your degree
Extended Degree Programmes offer you more time and support to help you complete your degree.
20 Jan 2020
Supporting you
Whether you’re struggling with academics or trying to resolve a dispute, here’s a list of student support services to make your UCT experience stress free.
20 Jan 2020
Stay safe
We take the safety and security of students and staff very seriously. Check out the info on staying safe both on and off campus.
20 Jan 2020
Stay safe
We take the safety and security of students and staff very seriously. Check out the info on staying safe both on and off campus.
20 Jan 2020
Sustainability gets the green light
Sustainability is top of mind for UCT. Find out how you can make a difference to fulfilling our commitment to becoming a green campus.
20 Jan 2020
Join clubs and societies
There really is more to campus life than your studies, and that includes over 100 student clubs and societies.
20 Jan 2020
On your marks ...
With almost 40 sporting codes to choose from at UCT, there’s definitely something for everyone. So, get set and go!
20 Jan 2020
Sexual and gender-based violence
Our commitment to responding to SGBV starts with a zero-tolerance approach to all forms of sexual violence and/or sexual harassment.
20 Jan 2020
Making a difference
At UCT, we believe that ploughing back into the community is an essential part of campus life.
20 Jan 2020
Make the call
Save these essential phone numbers in your contact list.
20 Jan 2020
Investors still not walking the talk
Recent research shows that while lip service is paid to the notion of responsible investing, very little has changed in practice.
17 Jan 2020
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Appointment of Health Sciences Dean
VC Prof Mamokgethi Phakeng writes to the UCT community about the appointment of the new dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS).
17 Jan 2020
How to keep South African children safe
Children are vulnerable to violence and injuries, from burns to drowning and from road traffic injuries to fatal child abuse.
17 Jan 2020
Republished
South African vultures have their fill at ‘restaurants’ – new study
There’s no menu and the food is sometimes rotten. Yet South Africa’s vulture restaurants are dishing up valuable information for researchers working to conserve Africa’s scavenger species, according to a new scientific study published in the International journal Animal Conservation.
16 Jan 2020
Measuring the success of the Cape Flats army deployment
At his UCT Summer School lecture, Dr Irvin Kinnes provided indicators for evaluating the success of the army’s deployment on the Cape Flats.
16 Jan 2020
UCT inventors are among the decade’s best
Business Insider South Africa recently named four UCT-linked inventions among South Africa’s best of the decade.
16 Jan 2020
Effective fisheries management critical in improving sustainable fishing
Where fisheries are well managed, fish populations can recover. This is according to new international research co-authored by Dr Carryn de Moor, a senior research officer from the University of Cape Town’s; Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics and the Marine Resource Assessment and Management Group.
15 Jan 2020
On the cutting edge: meet Assoc Prof Maswime
Associate Professor Salome Maswime has recently joined the Faculty of Health Sciences in her new role as the head of Global Surgery.
15 Jan 2020
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