Posted on October 25, 2016
The Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Pretoria, Prof Chika Sehoole, along with other representatives from the Faculty honoured the eight top achievers in the BEd degree of 2015 at a function held on Wednesday, 19 October 2016.
Posted on October 21, 2016
Two students from the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences recently walked away with prizes in the LitNet Akademies Einstein Competition.
Posted on October 14, 2016
The Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Pretoria, Prof Cheryl de la Rey, recently addressed staff on the call for quality free higher education.
Posted on October 13, 2016
The availability of funds for teaching will always be finite, writes Prof Christof Heyns, Director of the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa in the Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria, in the Pretoria News.
Posted on October 11, 2016
An academically brilliant student, whose master's degree was of such a high standard that it was upgraded to a PhD, was recently awarded the 2016 Society of Tropical Veterinary Medicine Norval-Young Award.
Posted on October 07, 2016
In a recent article published on The Conversation Africa, Prof Brenda Wingfield says that the student protests across South Africa could lead to universities losing the ability to do their core work: to teach and to conduct research.
Posted on October 05, 2016
The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International) has announced that the University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) has earned its prestigious accreditation.
Posted on October 05, 2016
The life of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela bears testimony to the damage of apartheid. Prof Christi van der Westhuizen writes about her life of 80 years.
Posted on October 05, 2016
Joel Alves, a veterinary student in the University of Pretoria's Faculty of Veterinary Science at Onderstepoort, won $1 000 with his black-and-white photo entitled 'Conservation in motion', which captures the important role wildlife veterinarians play in protecting rhinos.
Posted on October 05, 2016
Peter Lindsey, Policy Coordinator of the Lion Programme at UP spoke to Samantha Spooner from The Conversation Africa about the findings of a new report that warns of an extinction crisis facing the world's largest wildlife.
Posted on September 30, 2016
GIBS Faculty members who teach a core module of the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) PGDip (Postgraduate Diploma in General Management) programme entitled Human Behaviour and Performance, were recently awarded the prestigious Aspen Institute Business and Society 2016 Faculty Pioneer...
Posted on September 29, 2016
Several high-profile writers will grace an international literary conference to be held at the University of Pretoria. World-renowned Afrikaans author Breyten Breytenbach will open the conference and speak on the topic 'Imaginings, modernities and visions'.
Posted on September 28, 2016
Prof Bob Millar, Director of the Centre for Reproductive Neuroendocrinology in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Pretoria, has been awarded the Platinum Scientific Achievement Award by the South African Medical Research Council.
Posted on September 28, 2016
The Poultry Nutrition and Management Research Facility on the University's Experimental Farm was recently upgraded to the amount of R2 million, with a major part of the cost being covered through collaboration with generous sponsors from the poultry industry.
Posted on September 19, 2016
According to Prof Jannie Hugo from the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Pretoria, the use of eHealth could be of particular benefit in the provision of primary healthcare services to rural communities in South Africa.
Posted on September 16, 2016
Three students from the Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics (CMEG) at the University of Pretoria recently had their honours research published in international peer-reviewed journals.
Posted on September 15, 2016
In celebration of National Book Week, the departments of English and Library Services at the University of Pretoria hosted an event titled: 'Meet your African writers: Yewande Omotoso and Sandile Memela'.
Posted on September 14, 2016
Prof Danny Bradlow, SARCHI Professor of International Development Law and African Economic Relations at UP, recently spoke to The Conversation Africa about the changing role of central banks and what South Africans should look out for.
Posted on September 14, 2016
UP Audiology students are making today matter by helping to improve people's ability to hear. Seeing the look on someone's face when they hear for the first time in a long time, or for the first time ever, is one of the reasons these students are pursuing a profession in audiology.
Posted on September 13, 2016
The journey by road from Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of Congo, across Zambia and Zimbabwe to South Africa took Dr Estimé Mukandila three days. He had to leave his pregnant wife in the middle of a civil war in order to further his studies at the University of Pretoria.
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