Welcome to the
University of Cape Town News
Wamkelekile, Welkom
Menu
Search
News
Daily news
Newsbytes
Research & innovation
Newsletters
Publications
Lectures & speeches
Photo essays
Videos
Audio
Campus communications
From the UCT Executive
Campus Announcements
In remembrance
Campus updates
Audio
Media communications
Media releases
Archives
News archives
Features archives
Campus communication archives
Media archives
Debates in higher education
Contact Us
Newsroom
Media liaison
Social Media
archive: News
All
News
Campus communications
Media
category
All
News
Newsbyte
Research and innovation
Cape Town water crisis
Obituary
Faculty of Health Sciences
Graduation
Photo Essay
Videos
Event recordings
Highlights
Affirmative Action debate
Correspondence
Correspondence around debates in higher education
Debates in higher education
Free Education Planning Group
Institutional Reconciliation and Transformation Commission (IRTC)
Transform UCT Third batch
UCT correspondence around #FeesMustFall and #EndOutsourcing
UCT correspondence around #RhodesMustFall
University fees in 2017 and beyond
Views from campus
Front page
Front page extra
Campus Life
Student Life
2000 - 2008
Ad Hominem Promotions
Administration
Afropolitanism at UCT
Arts
Books
Books & Arts
Capital projects
Celebrating Africa
COP17 focus
Corporate
Council
Doctoral Studies
Editorial
Events/Arts
Events/Sports
Executives
Farewell
Feature
Focus
Focus on Postdoctoral Research Fellows
Governance
Graduation archive
Graduation Doctorates
Graduation News
Health
Health and Safety
Inaugural Lecture
Installation
Lectures and speeches
Letter to the Editor
On Campus
Opinions
Outreach/Sport
SHAWCO
Social Responsiveness
Special Focus
Special Projects
Sport
Staff
Student Research
Technology
The Brain Behaviour Initiative
Transformation News
Tribute
UCT Abroad
UCT Notice
Vice-Chancelor's Medals
World Cup
Youth Day
Faculty Focus - Centre for Higher Education Development (CHED)
Faculty Focus - Commerce
Faculty Focus - Engineering & the Built Environment
Faculty Focus - Health Sciences
Faculty Focus - Humanities
Faculty Focus - Law
Faculty Focus - Science
year: 2020
All
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
month: February
All
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Load Previous
UCT in top 10 emerging economy universities
UCT held its position among the top 10 globally and as top-ranked in Africa in the 2020 Times Higher Education Emerging Economies University Rankings.
19 Feb 2020
Huawei awards bursaries to UCT students
UCT students have been awarded R2.7 million in bursaries to help create youth employment and develop much-needed ICT skills for South Africa.
19 Feb 2020
Touring outer space
UCT’s Department of Astronomy recently celebrated its 50th anniversary.
19 Feb 2020
Retiring Deputy Dean of Health Sciences, Gonda Perez, commends UCT’s inspiring students
Associate Professor Gonda Perez, who is the deputy dean for undergraduate education in the Faculty of Health Sciences
18 Feb 2020
Cool science behind CSI, global warming and gene editing
Mini Summer School extends a wealth of knowledge to learners in UCT’s 100-UP programme for promising students in under-resourced areas.
18 Feb 2020
‘We can see change and be proud’
As Associate Professor Gonda Perez prepares to hang up her boots as deputy dean of undergraduate education at UCT’s Faculty of Health Sciences, she says retirement comes at the right time.
18 Feb 2020
UCT online courses give start-ups a digital boost
UCT’s Fintech in Emerging Markets specialisation aims to provide an African perspective on emerging technologies to fully realise their potential on the continent.
17 Feb 2020
Rolex Arts Weekend takes centre stage
The Baxter Theatre Centre at UCT hosted the Rolex Arts Weekend on 8 and 9 February, which featured the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative.
14 Feb 2020
‘Master historian’ reflects on UCT’s history
At the launch of his book UCT Under Apartheid, Emeritus Professor Howard Phillips took a packed room through 20 crucial years in the university’s history.
14 Feb 2020
UCT growing African innovators, building sustainability
As the continent’s academic and research powerhouse with global collaborations, UCT is uniquely placed to contribute to world sustainability, said Chancellor Dr Precious Moloi-Motsepe.
14 Feb 2020
5 questions with Tinashe Mutsvangwa, biomedical engineer
This UCT biomedical engineer is developing low-cost solutions for medical imaging and image analysis in low-resource settings.
14 Feb 2020
Fifty years of brine and biology
In 2020 Emeritus Professor Charles Griffiths notches up 50 years as a member of UCT’s staff. He talks about how life as a marine biologist has changed over the past half century.
14 Feb 2020
Connecting women in chemistry
Women in chemistry representing leading universities in the province came together for a special networking breakfast held at Rhodes Memorial Restaurant this week.
13 Feb 2020
‘UCT gave me freedom’
Visually impaired PhD graduate Joan Byamugisha said that without the support of her classmates and the university, getting to graduation day would have been impossible.
13 Feb 2020
Climate activists need to tackle right-wing populism
Global cooperation is essential if climate action is to be effective, amid the right-wing onslaught against multilateralism.
13 Feb 2020
Republished
Behari-Leak changing narrative of Africa through role as ICED president-elect
UCT’s Dr Kasturi Behari-Leak is the ICED’s new president-elect, and she’ll continue her academic activism so that all voices are heard in higher education.
13 Feb 2020
Medical waste reveals our drug choices
A study on an archive of medical materials, collected over three years from public waste sites, shows which medicines were provided or purchased, consumed, and then discarded.
13 Feb 2020
Republished
Vice-Chancellor’s message to the UCT community as the academic year starts
The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Vice-Chancellor, Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng, welcomes first-year students, as well as staff and returning students after the year-end break.
13 Feb 2020
Load More
TOP