Posted on April 04, 2022
A recent University Social Responsibility Network (USRN) webinar, hosted by Prof Norman Duncan, UP Vice-Principal: Academic, focused on how community engagement changed during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the hybrid approach that’s been created.
Posted on March 03, 2022
A multidisciplinary study led by two University of Pretoria (UP) researchers has found that Tshwane District hospitals were under immense pressure to provide clinical services in the face of an influx of paediatric patients (under 19 years old) during the early stages of the COVID-19 Omicron wave...
Posted on March 01, 2022
In his March 2022 message, UP VC Prof Tawana Kupe says due to the improving COVID-19 situation, UP has been able to welcome some students back to campus and adds that he hopes the situation will keep improving and more students will be welcomed back.
Posted on February 24, 2022
Dear UP student We have received a number of queries regarding the reopening of contact classes for some students. Most of them relate to why the University is still continuing with online classes and the criteria that were used by faculties to decide on the programmes and lectures where...
Posted on January 28, 2022
UP EXPERT OPINION: The spread of misinformation and disinformation may be unavoidable, but the lack of access to quality data is not, say data scientists including UP’s Dr Vukosi Marivate.
Posted on January 27, 2022
The latest total numbers of occupationally and non-occupationally acquired positive cases of COVID-19 recorded (staff and students) on the University of Pretoria’s various campuses since 5 March 2020.
Posted on January 18, 2022
A team of UP scientists has published the only study from Africa that entailed genomic One Health investigations to reveal that Delta variants of COVID-19 were transmitted from humans to animals.
Posted on January 04, 2022
The opportunity to be uncharacteristically flexible and responsive has taught higher education institutions a number of lessons which they can carry forward in order to shape a successful future, says UP Vice-Chancellor Prof Tawana Kupe.
Posted on December 21, 2021
“It is critical that people who are excluded or hard to reach are enabled to benefit from the vaccination programme to prevent islands within which the virus can hide and spread,” says UP’s Prof Jannie Hugo about the Gauteng-centred project.
Posted on December 03, 2021
It’s been a year of graft and gruelling circumstances, and many of us have felt the impact of 2021 on our physical and mental well-being. Be sure to make full use of the upcoming summer holidays for rest and rejuvenation – here’s how.
Posted on December 01, 2021
Professor Theresa Rossouw of UP’s Department of Immunology writes on how the COVID-19 pandemic affected HIV and TB treatment – and why the pandemic might in time become known as a catalyst for positive change.
Posted on November 26, 2021
UP’s Prof Marietjie Venter has been selected to chair the international scientific advisory team appointed by the WHO to probe the origins of novel pathogens including SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
Posted on October 11, 2021
“UP’s Student Counselling Unit gives students the problem-solving and resiliency skills they need to lead a fulfilling life,” says SCU Head Dr Hanlé Kirkcaldy.
Posted on October 05, 2021
What strategies can universities adopt to ease financial pressure caused by COVID-19? They must use resources sustainably, diversify resource streams and contain costs, says Prof Gerald Wangenge-Ouma, Director: Institutional Planning at UP.
Posted on September 14, 2021
“We cannot use technology in isolation; we have to have a consolidation phase where we actually speak and engage with our students,” said Dr Martha Bradley, a lecturer at UP’s Department of Public Law.
Posted on September 13, 2021
UP’s Prof Leonie Scholtz has co-directed a riveting film about healthcare workers’ battle against COVID-19. Catch ‘Fighting Every Day for Everyone’s Tomorrow: Zero to Zero’ on DStv Premium on M-Net (DStv Channel 101) on 4 October at 8:30pm.
Posted on September 08, 2021
UP alumna Dr Amy Louise Collyer writes about the stressful cycle that has become the life of many healthcare workers as they fight to save the lives of their COVID-19 patients and challenge misinformation
Posted on August 31, 2021
“We’ve received so much gratitude from our patients, their families and communities; that’s what has kept us going.” – UP’s Prof Veronica Ueckermann, critical care specialist and physician, on her experience of COVID-19 in the wards.
Posted on August 30, 2021
"Vaccinate, let us try and heal the nation. Wait, but there’s a debate. People are wondering why we should vaccinate." These are the lyrics of a catchy rap song by UP medical student Rostum Ogbuehi that aims to promote vaccination.
Posted on August 27, 2021
Integration technology “must enhance the actual learning outcomes to facilitate and improve deeper understanding of the content...it must spark creativity in the educator to improve a transformed teaching practice”. – UP lecturer Lizelle le Roux.
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