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  • Strategy in Practice: Financial Management students engage with local businesses

    Posted on February 01, 2024

    August is the most exciting part of the FIN702 Strategic Management Accounting module year for students in the BCom Honours in Financial Management Sciences program! This is when they present their Practical Case Study projects to fellow students and interested staff from the Department of...

  • Empowering Tomorrow's Innovators: JCP and Sifiso EdTech's Robotics Holiday Bootcamp

    Posted on February 01, 2024

    The Joint Community Projects (JCP) is a compulsory service-learning module for the Engineering, Built Environment and IT (EBIT) Faculty. As a component of its extensive community engagement initiatives, JCP joined forces with Sifiso EdTech to organise the Robotics Holiday Bootcamp, involving 14...

  • Department of Community Dentistry - Winners of the 2023 Faculty of Health Sciences Community Engagement Award

    Posted on December 14, 2023

    The Department of Community Dentistry provides the platform for community engagement (CE) projects within the School of Dentistry. These projects align with the UP 2025 strategic goals 4 and 5, focusing on integrating research into teaching and learning, and embedding CE into academia. The...

  • Fostering Community Engagement: UP's Meal Prep Workshop

    Posted on December 14, 2023

    Situated in the heart of South Africa's educational hub, UP is setting a shining example of how community engagement can create meaningful connections and enhance the educational experience. Recently, the university organised a unique event that brought together seven teachers from different...

  • The Interconnectedness of Moja Gabedi and Reliable House: An occupational therapy perspective

    Posted on November 01, 2023

    Nestled in the centre of bustling Hatfield, Moja Gabedi and Reliable House are two University of Pretoria (UP) community engagement sites that are making a world of difference. Moja Gabedi was previously an illegal dumping site and Reliable House was a run-down space teeming with criminal...

  • Post-consumer textile waste put to good use in collaboration with Clothes to Good (CTG)

    Posted on November 01, 2023

    From March to June 2022, fourth-year B Consumer Science Clothing Retail Management students in the Department of Consumer and Food Science at the University of Pretoria participated in the Clothes to Good (CTG) community project to gain insight into the intricacies of dealing with post-consumer...

  • Collaborating as a Community for the Benefit of All

    Posted on November 01, 2023

    We are part of a group of final-year Occupational Therapy students who were placed in Daspoort and surrounding areas for their community block. During our time in the community, we had to implement a community project. We identified Happy Sabby Day Care Centre as a site for our community project.

  • Reach Out, Unite and Advocate

    Posted on October 01, 2023

    I was enrolled in my undergraduate degree, Bachelor of Laws (LLB), from 2015 to 2018 and graduated in April 2019. After completing my Law School and passing the attorney’s board exams, I pursued my postgraduate studies in Master of Laws (LLM), specialising in International Trade and...

  • Medical Students’ Experience at Daspoort Clinic

    Posted on October 01, 2023

    As part of our final-year Family Medicine block, we attended Daspoort Clinic for three and a half weeks to get exposure to the primary healthcare system. The clinic has a wonderful multidisciplinary team, including the receptionist: Tanja Smith, Pharmacy Assistant: Charlene Meyer, sisters...

  • Nurturing Future STEM Participation through Youth Community Engagement

    Posted on October 01, 2023

    The participation of youth in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) space has been emphasised in assisting South Africa and the rest of Africa to tackle challenges in food security, information and communication technology (ICT), energy production, and trade.

  • Rust de Winter Community Engagement: In Commemoration of the World Animal Vaccination Day 2023

    Posted on September 01, 2023

    On a cold morning at 06:20 on Tuesday 25 April 2023, just over 100 Faculty of Veterinary Science students and three academic staff members set out on an excursion to conduct an outreach in Rust de Winter. This was a resuscitation of the COVID-19-hampered, annual Rust de Winter vaccination...

  • A Story of Persistently Pursuing the Goal: My Academic and Career Journey at the University of Pretoria

    Posted on September 01, 2023

    I enrolled at the University of Pretoria in 2016 to pursue a Bachelor of Social Work. I completed my bachelor's degree in 2019, and the following year, in 2020, I registered for a master’s degree in social work research. In June 2021, I completed my master's and graduated later that year in...

  • And now we see: Learning from visually impaired children

    Posted on August 01, 2023

    On 7 March 2023, the fourth-year Art Education Methodology class visited Prinshof School for the visually impaired to gain insight into the needs of the learners and prepare us for our community project, ‘We and the Others’, which required us to create tactile educational books for them.

  • Seeds of change

    Posted on July 01, 2023

    A few timber benches, small tables and a trench around a water tank may seem like small projects, but they were made with much love...

  • Winning the institutional community engagement award: 2022

    Posted on June 01, 2023

    Social work, being a professional degree, rests on the twin pillars of theoretical knowledge and the ability to integrate learnt theory into practice. Community engagement is therefore not ‘incorporated into’ or ‘added to’ the social work in practice module (MWP 400) but...

  • Urbanism as a stimulant for interactive minds...

    Posted on February 10, 2010

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  • Progress on the Engineering/ parkade project

    Posted on September 11, 2009

    You have probably noticed that work on the building site has virtually come to a standstill.

  • Update on University Road Status

    Posted on July 27, 2009

    As you know the extent of construction activities in and around University Road has necessitated the closure of University Road between Lynnwood Road and Burnett Street for the period 1 June 2009 to 30 September 2009.

  • Invitation to an information session regarding the new Engineering/Parkade project

    Posted on July 13, 2009

    By this time you are most probably aware of the major construction activities taking place behind the Aula on the Hatfield campus. These activities have necessitated the closure of a part of the Circle Road and the loss of parking behind the Aula and CEFI

  • Temporary closure of University Road entrance and H29 parking

    Posted on June 05, 2009

    As part of the preparations for the Federation Cup, a soft lockdown of the Loftus Stadium precinct is now in effect. This resulted in the closure of Lynnwood Road and Jorissen Street between University Road and Walton Jameson Street.

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