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Incident at Hiddingh campus
26 Sep 2016
Statement regarding phoney email about student housing
26 Sep 2016
Open letter to the VC
The Humanities Transformation Committee has written an open letter to the VC.
26 Sep 2016
Mystery tooth linked to Paul Gauguin
When a University of Colorado – Boulder professor contacted Dr Petrus le Roux to analyse a tooth thought to have belonged to French artist Paul Gauguin, the UCT geochemist thought he was being jibed.
23 Sep 2016
Kevin Naidoo: Computing, carbohydrates and cancer
What exactly is scientific computing and how is Professor Kevin Naidoo using it to better understand how disease works?
23 Sep 2016
Parliament picket sparks free-education debate
Hundreds of academics and students picketed outside Parliament on 22 September 2016 to implore the state to improve its funding of South Africa's higher education system.
23 Sep 2016
VC Dr Max Price proposes a medium-term solution
VC Dr Max Price proposes a medium-term solution to the fees issue – grants and loans.
23 Sep 2016
Transforming higher education?
Emeritus Professor Tim Crowe responds to Associate Professor Shadreck Chirikure’s piece on transforming knowledge and the curriculum
22 Sep 2016
Quadruple awards for UCT brewers
It certainly wasn't heartbreak for the UCT team from chemical engineering who blew the judges away with their four category winners.
22 Sep 2016
VC Dr Max Price highlights the need for a long-term solution
VC Dr Max Price highlights the need for a long-term solution to the fees issue.
22 Sep 2016
Community leaders for orthopaedic injury research day
22 Sep 2016
Heritage tour spotlights city's little-known slave history
When arts graduate Amie Soudien visited the Western Cape Archives and Records Service in Roeland Street to trace her family history, she was frustrated by the patchy record of her genealogy.
21 Sep 2016
Academic Freedom Committee Statement
The Academic Freedom Committee has released a statement on the 2016 TB Davie Memorial Lecture.
21 Sep 2016
The constitution enables student protest (and it’s a good thing too)
Pierre de Vos discusses how student protesters are framing their protest within the bounds of the constitution.
21 Sep 2016
Students present demands at mass meeting
Under the banners of #BringBackOurCadres and Fees Must Fall, protesting students packed Jameson Hall on 19 September 2016 while UCT classes, lectures and tutorials remained suspended.
21 Sep 2016
Lobola and love: a film-maker's journey
Sihle Hlophe knew precious little of the rich and complex lives of her Bantu ancestors, until she visited the ancient Kingdom of Mapungubwe.
21 Sep 2016
University fees in South Africa: many questions, lots of anger, and fires to fight
South Africa's Minister of Higher Education and Training Dr Blade Nzimande has announced it is up to the country's universities to “individually…determine the level of (fee) increase that their institutions require…”.
20 Sep 2016
Award-winning paper: 'Valuing waste and wasting value'
Adam van Heerden from the School of Architecture, Planning & Geomatics at UCT has won the Student Award at the 2016 Royal Town Planning Institute's (RTPI) Awards for Research Excellence.
20 Sep 2016
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