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UCT hosts IARU Presidents’ Meeting
The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) spring graduation was marked by historic milestones, including the awarding of honorary doctorates to four distinguished individuals and the official renaming of Jameson Hall to Sarah Baartman Hall, among other notable highlights.
09 Mar 2026
VC’s Open Lecture by Oxford VC and other updates
Following engagements between the University of Cape Town (UCT) executive and the three unions representing the Professional, Administrative and Support Service (PASS) staff within the bargaining unit (pay classes 1–12), an agreement has been reached by both parties.
05 Mar 2026
UCT-led study finds increase in plastic bottle pollution on Marion Island
A long-term study led by researchers from the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology found that when litter was first surveyed on Marion Island in 1984, more than half of all items came from the island’s research station. Since then, the amount of beached litter has increased substantially, but litter from the research station has decreased due to improvements in solid waste management, with local land-based litter currently accounting for less than 1% of all litter.
05 Mar 2026
Media release
How care is organised, experienced and governed amid social and economic change – UCT lecture
University of Cape Town (UCT) Professor Elena Moore, professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Humanities , will deliver her inaugural lecture, “Who cares? The directions of state-family relationships in changing times”, on Wednesday, 4 March 2026 at 17:30 SAST at the New Lecture Theatre on upper campus.
03 Mar 2026
Media release
UCT exco and PASS unions reach agreement
Following engagements between the University of Cape Town (UCT) executive and the three unions representing the Professional, Administrative and Support Service (PASS) staff within the bargaining unit (pay classes 1–12), an agreement has been reached by both parties.
02 Mar 2026
