Article | UCT News

UCT innovators sweep Falling Walls Lab Cape Town 2025 UCT student Candice Eslick has won the Cape Town regional leg of the prestigious Falling Walls Lab competition. 15 Sep 2025

The resilient spirit of a woman UCT officially marked the renaming of the Sarah Baartman Hall on 10 September. 11 Sep 2025

Shaping global chemical safety and workers’ health Dorothy Ngajilo intends to use her position as the health and labour officer of the United Nations Environment Programme to ensure that workers and communities are safe from chemicals. 11 Sep 2025

UCT Language Indaba 2025: turning policy into practice Every year, Grade 11 visual art and design learners in the province are invited to step into Irma Stern’s world by visiting the museum and engage with her work. 11 Sep 2025

Reimagining Irma Stern through youth voices Every year, Grade 11 visual art and design learners in the province are invited to step into Irma Stern’s world by visiting the museum and engage with her work. 11 Sep 2025

A hall of reckoning UCT will commemorate the renaming of Jameson Memorial Hall to Sarah Baartman Hall on Thursday, 10 September. 10 Sep 2025

Championing socially just and decolonised education UCT lecturer and performing artist Msakha Mona, who graduated with his PhD this week, has devoted his time and efforts to advocating for social justice, multilingualism and decoloniality. 10 Sep 2025

Music, queerness, and selfhood UCT student Fumani Jwara has created an extended play for his master’s degree in global media and communications, a joint programme between UCT and the London School of Economics. 10 Sep 2025

Bold, inclusive, African-centred: the HPALS way UCT’s HPALS leads globally in sports science, combining bold, people-centred, African-rooted research with international impact – from rehabilitation technology to genetics and community health. 10 Sep 2025

UCT launches The Learning Store UCT launched a new online short course learning portal, a major step forward in widening access to quality short courses and continuing education opportunities. 09 Sep 2025

Workshop lays groundwork for new Climate Action Innovation Lab UCT’s ACDI convened a collaborative workshop on 27 August to explore the development of a proposed Climate Action Innovation Lab. 09 Sep 2025

UCT academy empowers women with multi-conditions UCT celebrated women living with multiple long-term conditions who completed a three-year Advocacy Skills Programme. 09 Sep 2025

Lecture calls for universally dignified and equal healthcare access for Africa On 1 September, UCT’s FHS hosted its annual Global Health Lecture, themed: “Universal Health Access for Africa: Where are we now?” 09 Sep 2025

Evaluation as inquiry, power and possibility According to Prof Sarah Chapman, evaluation is the most dynamic, evolving, and deeply human disciplines of our time. 09 Sep 2025

Reflecting on 10 years of Rhodes Must Fall On 28 August, UCT hosted the first of three public dialogues, marking a decade since the eruption of the Rhodes Must Fall movement at UCT. 05 Sep 2025

Never too late to learn UCT staffer Nico Badenhuizen has found both personal and professional growth after completing a postgraduate diploma in management practice at UCT GSB. 05 Sep 2025

UCT retains African lead in 2025 global rankings Evaluated out of 2 500 institutions globally, UCT placed in the top 201–300 band in the 2025 ARWU rankings. 05 Sep 2025

‘Noticing the growth in myself was thrilling’ Nina Taaibosch was initially reluctant to study. Now she’ll be graduating, and the study bug has bitten. 04 Sep 2025

Load More

TOP