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Newly qualified teachers press on to survive ‘rollercoaster’ first year The 2021 cohort of the Newly Qualified Teachers Project have endured a turbulent first year in the classroom. 15 Nov 2021
New online tool helps users learn an African language UCT master’s student Chido Dzinotyiwei has developed an online tool that teaches users indigenous African languages. 12 Nov 2021
Health Sciences PhD student awarded Google Fellowship UCT’s Dennis Dogbey is the only African recipient in the Human-Computer Interactions subfield this year. 12 Nov 2021
EMS cements massive transformative purpose, offers case study The Centre for Extra-Mural Studies offers UCT departments a case study in how to unleash their massive transformative purpose, part of Vision 2030. 12 Nov 2021
Grants give African data science a boost Three members of the IDM have been awarded NIH grants for projects in the field of data science applied in health research in Africa. 12 Nov 2021
‘For me it wasn’t work; it was love’ Jonathan Fritz, a member of UCT’s garden maintenance department, will hang up his gloves and overalls when he retires at the end of December. 12 Nov 2021
New findings about prehistoric flying animal life UCT palaeobiologist Professor Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan was part of a study that revealed new information about gigantic pterosaurs in prehistoric skies. 11 Nov 2021
UCT GSB MBA ranks top in Africa on sustainability performance The UCT GSB has been ranked 22nd in the world for its MBA programme on the Corporate Knights’ 2021 Better World MBA list of the top 40 global business schools. 11 Nov 2021
UCT’s clinical & health in top 100 UCT placed among the top 100 universities globally for clinical and health in the 2022 Times Higher Education Rankings by subject. 11 Nov 2021
Rochelle Kapp reflects as she bids UCT farewell After more than three decades at UCT, Associate Professor Rochelle Kapp will retire at the end of the year. 11 Nov 2021
‘Alarming precedent’ – Liesbeek River under siege again Current development at the River Club on floodplains of the lower Liesbeek River suggests that very little has been learnt from a history of abuse. 10 Nov 2021
UCT alum receives SA’s Best Teacher Award Dr Mariëtte Wheeler, a UCT alumnus, received the 2021 Teacher of the Year Award. 10 Nov 2021
VC’s challenge to new UCT Fellows Vice-Chancellor Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng has congratulated nine new UCT College of Fellows inductees. But she threw down some challenges to these ‘elders’ around Vision 2030. 10 Nov 2021
‘Reboot and rebuild’ – SAICE’s new UCT president Marianne Vanderschuren, SAICE’s new president – and UCT’s new SARChI chair – plans to reboot the institute and work with government to urgently tackle SA’s crumbling infrastructure. 09 Nov 2021
UCT research 109th in the world The University of Cape Town (UCT) has been placed 109th in the 2022 US News & World Report Best Global Universities Rankings. 05 Nov 2021
Harnessing the sun and the (surface of) water to make energy A new floating solar power-generating system in Cape Town is set to negate water evaporation and reduce land use – while making clean energy. 05 Nov 2021
UCT accelerates postgraduate transformation UCT launched its Accelerated Transformation of the Academic Programme in October with a view to widening the pool of black South African academics entering career academia. 04 Nov 2021
‘I have seen UCT transform’ – Professor Hambidge After 29 years as a lecturer and researcher in the Afrikaans and Netherlandic Studies department within the School of Languages and Literatures, Professor Joan Hambidge says farewell to UCT. 03 Nov 2021
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