Posted on May 08, 2023
On 9 November 2022, the Department of Basic Education (DBE), in collaboration with a range of stakeholders, funders and international benchmarking specialists, launched the Reading Benchmark for the Sesotho languages, Afrikaans and English as First Additional Language.
Posted on April 19, 2023
UP will be awarding 11 908 qualifications during its Autumn Graduation season, which starts today,19 April 2023. Of the qualifications to be awarded at the 28 Autumn Graduation ceremonies, 201 are doctorates, 1 384 master’s degrees and 2 021 are honours degrees.
Posted on March 29, 2023
UP representatives meet with Ghent University delegation to discuss strengthening collaborations through transdisciplinary research, staff and student exchange, and forging new partnerships.
Posted on March 22, 2023
21 subjects offered at UP have been ranked in the 2023 Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World Rankings by Subject. Of the 21 disciplines in which UP was ranked this year, eight are rated first in South Africa.
Posted on March 10, 2023
The DLS is celebrating South African Library Week (SALW) with the theme “Libraries: telling powerful stories” from 20-26 March 2023
Posted on February 22, 2023
UP faculties took stock of lessons learnt and what still needs to be done to recognise and embrace different forms of knowledge at the University’s Senate Conference on Curriculum Transformation.
Posted on January 18, 2023
Two staff members from the Centre for Evaluation and Assessment (CEA), Mr Mishack Tshele and Mr Gabriel Mokoena, joined delegates at the national workshop on Improving the Quality of Assessment at School Level, organised by the Department of Basic Education at its offices in Pretoria. The purpose...
Posted on January 18, 2023
Prof. Funke Omidire attended the fifth RESEP Quantitative Education Research Conference at the STIAS Conference Centre in Stellenbosch on 12 and 13 September, 2022. There were a number of interesting and informative presentations.
Posted on January 18, 2023
The team of four colleagues, Prof. Rinelle Evans, Mr Hendrick De Kock, Mr Gabriel Mokoena and Ms Taslima Ahmed from the Centre for Evaluation and Assessment (CEA) met with the Directorate of Research, Western Cape Education Department (WCED), The School Development Unit (SDU) of the University of...
Posted on November 24, 2022
Professor Adeyemo was appointed as a visiting professor and research fellow in the Centre for the Studies of Religion and Society (CSRS) at the University of Victoria in Canada from January to July 2022. The aim of his visit was to conduct interdisciplinary research on decoloniality and new...
Posted on November 24, 2022
Dr Linette van der Merwe was invited to sing the trouser role of the young teenage boy, Cherubino (translated as ‘little angel’).
Posted on November 24, 2022
Professor Human-Vogel delivered her inaugural address in the Groenkloof Campus Auditorium on 3 August 2022.
Posted on November 24, 2022
On 5 and 6 August 2022, the Unit for Distance Education in the Faculty of Education, in collaboration with Siyafunda CTC, held a two-day digital literacy campaign for the first cohort of Advanced Diploma School Leadership and Management students from the Northern Cape Department of Education at...
Posted on November 24, 2022
The Department of Early Childhood Education hosted a three-part reading series, titled Teaching Reading the UP Way.
Posted on November 24, 2022
During two weeks in September, Dr West and other international experts served on an academic review panel for the Namibian National Council of Higher Education (NCHE) to review three programmes offered by the University of Namibia (UNAM).
Posted on November 24, 2022
Thinking Schools South Africa (TSSA) was privileged to present the TSSA Spring Roadshow in collaboration with Leslee Udwin, founder of Think Equal.
Posted on November 24, 2022
It was an honour to present the preliminary findings of my study at the 2022 WALS conference, which was held in Malaysia from 19 to 23 September 2022. This would not have happened if my supervisor, Dr Sekao, had not encouraged me to submit a paper. The conference was attended by approximately 800...
Posted on November 24, 2022
This article pays tribute to the role of played by teachers who sacrificed their time and lives during the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure that teaching and learning continued.
Posted on November 24, 2022
After four years of collaboration with the Department of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education (SMTE), the interactive session on coding and robotics has become a much- anticipated annual event. This year Early Childhood Education (ECE) students were treated to coding and robotics with a...
Posted on November 24, 2022
The University of Pretoria and the Zenex Foundation have taken hands in a groundbreaking project called ‘Ulwazi Lwethu’.
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