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UCT celebrates its female executive leadership
To celebrate its women leadership, the University of Cape Town (UCT) held a webinar titled, A Women-led UCT. For the first time in its history, UCT’s executive team is predominantly led by women, and several women are serving as deans and executive directors.
29 Oct 2020
UCT ParaSports club raises awareness on blind football
The ParaSports club at the University of Cape Town (UCT) is on a mission to have blind football included as one of the university’s official sporting codes. As one of the first steps towards achieving this goal, the club hosted a benchmarking webinar on the growth of the sport in other parts of the continent and for tips and advice on what UCT needs to do to get the ball rolling.
29 Oct 2020
UCT moves up in research rankings
The University of Cape Town (UCT) moved up 18 places, from 121st to 103rd position in the 2021 US News & World Report Best Global Universities rankings , and was ranked in the top 100 for six subjects, including an outstanding top 10 ranking for infectious diseases.
27 Oct 2020
UCT climate change experts develop Just Transition Transaction aimed at addressing South Africa’s electricity supply crisis
Three University of Cape Town (UCT) climate change experts have carried out a case study to understand what a just transition of South Africa’s energy landscape into a low-carbon environment could look like. This Just Transition Transaction (JTT) aims to simultaneously solve the electricity supply crisis in South Africa while moving the country towards renewable energy, its emissions commitments and job creation in terms of the Paris Agreement.
27 Oct 2020
UCT student organisation helps youth in marginalised communities
Pantsula with a Purpose, a youth development non-profit organisation (NPO) that provides training and development programmes to youth in under-resourced communities has been tipped as a potential winner of the 2020 Entrepreneurship Intervarsity national final.
27 Oct 2020
UCT research to shed light on immune system’s response to COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has directly affected more than 700 000 South Africans, and each patient experienced the virus differently – many paid the ultimate price. In recent weeks globally, a handful of patients have reportedly been reinfected with COVID-19.
26 Oct 2020
A women-led UCT: In conversation with senior women executives
Join the discussion of 'A Women-led UCT', a series profiling executive leadership at the University of Cape Town (UCT). Connect with UCT Deans of Faculties, Associate Professors Shose Kessi (Humanities) and Linda Ronnie (Commerce), Professor Alison Lewis (Engineering and the Built Environment) and Dr Catherine Duggan (Director of UCT’s Graduate School of Business) as they reflect on their leadership journey, their experiences of being senior women executives along with their vision for a UCT of the future.
26 Oct 2020
UCT launches interactive website to track SA’s post-secondary school qualifications since 1994
In 2020 approximately 14% of South Africans managed to attain a post-secondary school qualification – a 7% increase compared with figures from 1994. While there has been steady progress over the past 25 years, achieving governmentʼs target of 22% by 2030 will take work.
22 Oct 2020
The Baxter is back with a benefit fundraiser
Championed by the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Vice-Chancellor, Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng, a new production celebrates the Baxter’s return under lockdown Level one and serves as a benefit fundraiser aimed at helping recover the loss of income over the past six months.
21 Oct 2020
New UCT Irma Stern Museum website supports art education nationally
The recently launched University of Cape Town (UCT) Irma Stern Museum (ISM) website enables the public to virtually ‘visit’ the museum as the COVID-19 pandemic continues while also supporting teaching and learning in South African schools.
20 Oct 2020
COVID-19 multitool opens communal doors, taps - minimises surface contamination
A novel multitool designed by a University of Cape Town (UCT) electrical engineering team will make opening doors and taps much safer for communities who rely on communal facilities but are wary of COVID-19 contaminating public surfaces.A novel multitool designed by a University of Cape Town (UCT) electrical engineering team will make opening doors and taps much safer for communities who rely on communal facilities but are wary of COVID-19 contaminating public surfaces.
20 Oct 2020
Sustainable Development Goals can help with post-COVID-19 recovery – UN deputy chief
When Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN) Ms Amina Mohammed presented an open lecture titled, ‘Decade of Action: so what?’ at the University of Cape Town (UCT) there was a sense of hope that prevailed.
15 Oct 2020
Student pan-African talk show reimagines news by taking feminist approach
In an effort to get more young South Africans to understand and participate in important discourses that affect the country and the continent, two University of Cape Town (UCT) postgraduates have developed and produced a pan-African talk show, The Revulva, that takes a feminist approach to news and aims to change the way the youth perceives and interacts with current affairs.
15 Oct 2020