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Learning Platforms Update Project and other updates
In line with the Vision 2030 goals, the University of Cape Town (UCT) has initiated the Learning Platforms Update Project (LPUP) to improve the digital learning infrastructure at UCT. Read more on this and other updates.
26 May 2021
UCT VC honours Black Sash stalwarts
Vice-Chancellor Prof Mamokgethi Phakeng hosted Black Sash stalwarts at Glenara to honour and celebrate their work.
26 May 2021
In remembrance: Nokuzola Pearl Lukubeni
The UCT Executive team writes to the UCT community about the passing of Ms Nokuzola Pearl Lukubeni (53).
26 May 2021
Jagger reflections: Quiet, meditative solitude
UCT’s Dr Tessa Dowling shares her reflections on the burning down of the Jagger Reading Room.
26 May 2021
Call for nominations: 2021 UCT Open Textbook Award
Associate Professor Lis Lange writes to staff to call for nominations for the 2021 UCT Open Textbook Award.
26 May 2021
Calling student entrepreneurs: The Pitch applications open
By entering The Pitch UCT 2021, student entrepreneurs stand the chance of winning R25 000 in seed capital, and business mentorship.
26 May 2021
Jagger reflections: ‘Wealth of resources at his fingertips’
UCT alumnus and former staff member Morgan Morris shares his reflections on the burning down of the Jagger Reading Room.
25 May 2021
UCT honours Black Sash stalwarts
UCT Vice-Chancellor Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng hosted a group of Black Sash stalwarts to celebrate the organisation’s 66th anniversary on Wednesday, 19 May.
25 May 2021
Call for applications: UCT Teaching Innovation Grant
Associate Professor Lis Lange writes to staff about the UCT Teaching Innovation Grant.
25 May 2021
Decolonising ecology: Making science more equitable
A new paper co-authored by UCT’s Dr Chris Trisos proposes five interventions to build a more anti-oppressive and decolonial ecology.
25 May 2021
Lessons from the Aids response for COVID-19 vaccinations
Far bolder initiatives and international leadership are required to solve the global problem with vaccine production and distribution, writes Professor Nicoli Natrass.
25 May 2021
Republished
Jagger reflections: ‘It was ... my church’
Two academics from UCT’s Centre for Film and Media Studies share their reflections on the burning down of the Jagger Reading Room.
24 May 2021
COVID-19: Why critically ill patients in Africa are taking a bigger hit
UCT’s Professor Bruce Biccard shares the findings of a study over 3 000 critical care patients from 64 hospitals in Africa.
24 May 2021
Republished
Pandemic perspectives and the role of the media
During a recent UCT Summer School webinar, the Centre for Film and Media Studies shared findings on the role of media in the COVID-19 pandemic.
24 May 2021
Rare honours and international recognition for UCT research managers
Two UCT staff members are part of the first four South Africans to be awarded Research Management Professional status by the International Professional Recognition Council.
24 May 2021
Decolonising ecology? How to adopt practices that make science more equitable
Knowledge systems outside of those sanctioned by Western universities have often been marginalised or simply not engaged with in many science disciplines, but there are multiple examples where Western scientists have claimed discoveries for knowledge that resident experts already knew and shared. This demonstrates not a lack of knowledge itself but rather that, for many scientists raised in Western society, little education concerning histories of systemic oppression has been by design. Western scientific knowledge has also been used to justify social and environmental control, including dispossessing colonised people of their land and ways of life and discounting existing knowledge systems.
24 May 2021
Inequality in South Africa is a ‘ticking timebomb’
UCT’s African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research and the Embassy of France in South Africa hosted a dialogue on historical inequalities and economic transformation.
21 May 2021
Africa has higher death rate among critically ill COVID-19 patients than any other world region, study suggests
Death rates among adults in the 30 days after being admitted to critical care with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 infection appear considerably higher in Africa than globally, according to a prospective observational study from 64 hospitals in 10 African countries published in The Lancet .
21 May 2021
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