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How we found the gene for a rare heart disease and why it matters 24 Mar 2017
Winfield teaches ethical accounting Associate Professor Jimmy Winfield, an accounting scholar at UCT, runs a course called Business Ethics which aims to open his students’ minds a little 24 Mar 2017
Latest transmission patterns for drug resistant TB pose a new challenge 24 Mar 2017
Existential fatigue, psycho-emotional weight and a revolt 23 Mar 2017
The formula to make maths fun Dr David Erwin’s philosophy of creating a comfortable classroom, keeping students focused, and developing the structures they need to succeed is visible in his teaching. 22 Mar 2017
What we've learnt from the drought 22 Mar 2017
Simplistic racial constructions and mistaken assumptions 22 Mar 2017
Free laptops for hundreds of first-year students Over 800 delighted first-year students on financial aid have received free laptops and backpacks thanks to a campus-wide initiative, spearheaded by UCT's Information and Communication Technology Services (ICTS). The project was first piloted in 2013. 20 Mar 2017
O-Week! 20 Mar 2017
'Stare straight into the eye of the perpetrator', says feminist scholar Author Professor Jacqueline Rose, renowned worldwide for her scholarship on the intersection of feminism, psychoanalysis, literature and politics, delivered the Vice-Chancellor's Open Lecture at UCT on 16 March 2017. 17 Mar 2017
SASSA - no safety net for beneficiaries 16 Mar 2017
A new frontier for cancer diagnostics 15 Mar 2017
Taking the shock out of teaching maths Dr Jonathan Shock, who convenes a dreaded first-year mathematics course, was one of six DTA awardees for 2016. 15 Mar 2017
Unbundling higher education 15 Mar 2017
Medicine and science in harmony after seven years Growing up in a missionary family where he was exposed to the sick and vulnerable in rural communities, Matthew Amoni always knew he wanted to be a doctor and help people. But he also loved the thrill of inventing things and fell in love with aeronautical engineering at a science fair. 14 Mar 2017
#BlackGirlMagic for the literary world UCT alumnus Dr Kopano Matlwa Mabaso is a medical doctor and published author who is renowned for her two novels: Coconut and Spilt Milk. 14 Mar 2017
A pan-African approach to leadership 13 Mar 2017
Africa's first design-thinking school launched at UCT In an era of intense change, where it's difficult to predict which jobs will exist in the next 20 years, applying the same solutions to existing societal challenges will no longer work. 13 Mar 2017
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