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Ideas, culture and conversations take centre stage at UCT Summer School 2026
The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) flagship Summer School programme will take place from 19-31 January 2026. The only programme of its kind on the continent, it is open to the public, staff and students. It includes lectures, excursions, campus tours, performances – including by Opera UCT and, for the first time, a ballet.
04 Dec 2025
Media release
Survey: How AI is affecting assessment practices
I’d like to invite you to participate in a research project, the findings of which will contribute to developing support services and resources to build AI in education literacy and to support assessment practices at the University of Cape Town (UCT).
03 Dec 2025
UCT lecture explores immunity and vaccine sovereignty in an age of outbreaks
The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Professor Wendy Burgers delivered the final inaugural lecture in the 2025 series, titled “In Defence of Us All: Engineering Immunity in the Age of Outbreaks” on Thursday, 20 November in the New Learning Centre Lecture Theatre on the health sciences campus.
03 Dec 2025
Media release
UCT study highlights competing pressures shaping AI use in teaching
The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching (CILT) has shared early insights from its emerging research into how staff and students develop the literacies needed to use generative AI (GenAI) ethically, critically and constructively in teaching, learning and assessment.
03 Dec 2025
Media release
UCT leads landmark study to curb alcohol harm in SA
The University of Cape Town (UCT) and the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) have launched a landmark multidisciplinary research initiative to investigate the political, economic and social drivers of harmful alcohol use in South Africa and Botswana and assess its far-reaching impacts. The five-year project aims to generate evidence that supports the co-creation of effective policies and community interventions with stakeholders to reduce alcohol-related harm.
03 Dec 2025
Media release
Update on VC’s Campus-wide Conversations
When we launched the VC’s Campus-wide Conversations in December 2024, it was with the hope and aspiration of beginning a collective journey of conversations – one where we could engage openly and honestly with the difficult questions facing our university, and begin to restore the trust, connection and shared purpose that have all been strained in recent years.
02 Dec 2025
UCT hosts discussion on improving scientific communication and media reporting on marine resource management issues
The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) departments of Biological Sciences and Mathematics and Applied Mathematics will jointly host a discussion session on Improving Scientific Communication and the Media when reporting on Marine Resource Management on Wednesday, 3 December 2025 at the John Day (Zoology) Building on upper campus.
02 Dec 2025
Media release
