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UCT research makes case for protecting contract workers
There is a growing trend among South African firms to contract work out to miners, truck drivers, construction workers and clothing machinists, and to treat these contract workers as self-employed rather than staff workers under labour law. Many of these "self-employed" workers in turn employ others to help them complete a job. Research by Pamhidzai Bamu, a PhD graduand in Commercial Law at the University of Cape Town, broadly considers the development of this informal and precarious work in a global context.
12 Dec 2011
98% pass rate for UCT's MBChB grads
The graduating class of the MBChB degree programme for 2011 at the University of Cape Town has achieved a pass rate of 97.7 percent - including Vuyane Mhlomi from Khayelitsha, a township in Cape Town, who is graduating third in his class with an average in 2011 of 76.6 percent in his final year of study for the medical degree.
12 Dec 2011
Tutu unable to attend UCT grad ceremony today
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu will not be attending the graduation ceremony this morning at the University of Cape Town, as he has not been released from hospital following a medical procedure over the weekend. UCT has no further details about his condition.
12 Dec 2011
UCT research looks at the mate-swapping albatross, the non-conforming penguin and other fowl topics
Six doctoral students at the University of Cape Town have completed studies on southern African birdlife: 5 of them focusing on specific species, while the sixth travelled 160km on foot, collecting almost 1 million vegetation data points and more than 32,000 insects, and monitoring more than 400 birds' nests to calculate the diversity of grassland.
09 Dec 2011
UCT research tackles Ghana's barriers to healthcare access
The University of Cape Town is set to graduate more than 70 PhDs during the December 2011 graduation ceremonies. Among these are international students whose research focused on issues specific to their home countries. With a primary focus on Ghana, Bertha Garshong's thesis tackles the challenge of access to healthcare.
09 Dec 2011
UCT research investigates infrastructure development
The engineering sector in South Africa remains among the most sought-after skills areas for employers and the development or improvement of infrastructure. Five PhD candidates set to graduate from the University of Cape Town devoted their research to studying issues that could have an important impact on this sector.
09 Dec 2011
UCT research examines future and past of baboons
UCT Zoology PhD graduand Tali Hoffman provides the first detailed investigation into the conflict over space between baboons and humans in the Cape Peninsula, while archaeology doctoral graduand Riashna Sithaldeen explains how climate and landscape might have guided the evolution of the species.
09 Dec 2011
UCT Chemistry PhD researchers do their bit to fight malaria
According to the World Health Organisation, a child dies from malaria every 30 seconds. Malaria accounts for about 1 million deaths every year, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa. Two Science graduands at the University of Cape Town - one of them from Kenya - devoted their doctoral research to the development of anti-malarial treatments.
09 Dec 2011
UCT student's award-winning wind generator design uses recycled hard drives
The design for a sustainable wind generator using redundant materials has earned a prestigious international award for Hartmut Jagau, a master's student in electrical engineering at the University of Cape Town.
09 Dec 2011
UCT to graduate 89 doctoral candidates this month - 5249 total graduands to be hooded between 12 and 17 December 2011
The University of Cape Town will graduate a total of 89 Doctors of Philosophy at 12 ceremonies beginning at 10:00 on Monday, 12 December 2011. The total number of graduates for December 2011 is 5249, an increase of 187 graduates from December 2010. The total number of PhDs awarded for 2011, including the June graduates, is 152.
08 Dec 2011
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, Ms Mary Burton and Dr David Potter to be honoured at graduation ceremonies in December
The University of Cape Town will honour Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu with the Graça Machel Chancellor's Award for Continental Leadership at the graduation ceremony at 10:00 on Monday, 12 December, in Jameson Hall. (Media seating is limited; please confirm your attendance by Thursday, 8 December: email Ms Mologadi Makwela or phone +27 (0)21 650 5427.) In addition, human rights champion Ms Mary Burton and software genius Dr David Potter will receive honorary degrees at graduation ceremonies on 12 and 13 December respectively.
06 Dec 2011
UCT students become first Africans to win global negotiation competition
A team of 4 law students from the University of Cape Town have become the first African team to win the Copenhagen Competition - an international negotiation contest hosted by the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. The UCT team beat competitors from the University of Copenhagen, the National University of Singapore and Yale University at the finals on 1 December 2011.
05 Dec 2011
UCT's newest A-rated researcher looks to plants, insects for major vaccines
Professor Ed Rybicki of the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology is the University of Cape Town's newest A-rated researcher, following the release of the latest ratings by the National Research Foundation (NRF).
05 Dec 2011
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