‘The COVID-19 pandemic helped create a stronger hybrid approach to community engagement’, USRN webinar hears

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.

Influx of COVID-19 paediatric cases in early Omicron stages put pressure on Tshwane hospitals – UP study finds

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...

March 2022 Monthly Video Message from the Vice-Chancellor and Principal

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.

Why Universities cannot resume contact classes for all its students

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...

UP EXPERT OPINION: COVID lessons: scientists without quality data are like unarmed soldiers in a war zone

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.

COVID-19 incidents at UP: Latest figures

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.

University of Pretoria-led study reveals COVID-19 Delta variants transmitted from humans to animals

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.

EXPERT OPINION: ‘The COVID-19 crisis has taught us how tertiary education needs to change in order to prepare our students for an ever-changing global environment’ – UP Vice-Chancellor Prof Tawana Kupe

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.