Posted on November 03, 2016
A delegation from Nigeria recently attended two education-related training programmes through Enterprises University of Pretoria (Pty) Ltd (Enterprises UP).
Posted on November 02, 2016
There can be no doubt that many people are experiencing great anxiety about the current situation at universities and other places of learning and knowledge development in South Africa, writes Mr George Harley from the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and IT at the University of Pretoria.
Posted on November 02, 2016
A memorandum of understanding was signed between the Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Pretoria, Prof Cheryl de la Rey, and a delegation from the Instituto Nacional De Tecnologia Agropecuaria at a meeting held on the University's Hatfield Campus in October 2016.
Posted on November 01, 2016
The Faculty of Education is proud to announce that four of our staff members have received new ratings from the National Research Foundation (NRF).
Posted on October 31, 2016
The Africa Science Leadership Programme recently launched the first Science Leadership Programme clinic. Thirteen ASLP fellows from eleven institutions in seven countries participated.
Posted on October 31, 2016
To do his part in helping to conserve the South African fynbos, Mr Joey Hulbert, a PhD student at UP, has initiated a citizen science project to identify pathogens that may be killing some of these unique plants.
Posted on October 28, 2016
The debut musical production 'Twee hartstale' of Willemien/Philomène Rust a French lecturer in the Department of Modern European Languages at the University of Pretoria, recently won the national Vrynge prize for best production at the 2016 Freestate Arts Festival.
Posted on October 28, 2016
Ruben Scharneck, a six-year-old boy from Pretoria who was diagnosed with stage 4 neuroblastoma cancer dreamt of experiencing a day as a normal Tukkie student. Staff from the University of Pretoria recently visited him at home to make this dream a reality.
Posted on October 27, 2016
The second round of the Tuks Young Research Leader Programme was held at the University of Pretoria earlier this month, involving 20 new fellows from seven faculties.
Posted on October 27, 2016
Prof Ronél Ferreira, Head of the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Pretoria, uses intervention research to facilitate positive change in resource-constrained school settings and vulnerable communities.
Posted on October 25, 2016
The 2016 TuksSport Awards saw rowers Lawrence Brittain, Shaun Keeling, Ursula Grobler and Kirsten McCann take top honours by winning the Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year respectively. The prestigious event took place in Pretoria on Friday, 14 October 2016 where a total of 426 TuksSport...
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.
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