Posted on September 13, 2017
Graduating from university and getting your first job are great achievements. However, the transition from student life to the life of a working professional should not be underestimated.
Posted on September 13, 2017
Dr Moeketsi Mosola, City of Tshwane manager, recently graduated at the University of Pretoria with a PhD in Human Movement Sciences.
Posted on September 12, 2017
According to the QS Graduate Employability Survey published today, the University of Pretoria is ranked among the top one hundred universities in the world for its alumni outcomes, with a position in 97th place.
Posted on September 06, 2017
The University will confer 1 807 degrees, diplomas and certificates during this year's Spring Graduation Ceremony. These include 142 doctorates, 427 master's degrees and 746 honours degrees, which will be awarded over three days.
Posted on August 31, 2017
31 August is African Traditional Medicine Day. According to Dr Bosco Bae, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UP, however, the day is meaningless unless its value and history is recognised.
Posted on August 30, 2017
Unlike most musical instruments, the pipe organ is commonly defined by the place where it's often played: church. Prof Theo van Wyk, Head of the Department of UP Arts, clears up some preconceptions about this amazing instrument.
Posted on August 30, 2017
This week is Anti-Discrimination Week at the University of Pretoria (UP). Through this video, the Queer Space Collective contributes to the conversation on what discrimination means to the queer community at UP, and what the University management should include among its considerations while...
Posted on August 29, 2017
The Department of Social Work and Criminology at the University of Pretoria takes a firm position on violence against women and children, especially during August when we celebrate Women's Month.
Posted on August 28, 2017
David Ikpo writes about the creation of queer spaces at the University as part of the #SpeakOutUP campaign, which aims to encourage a non-sexist, non-discriminatory, working, living and study environment for UP staff and students.
Posted on August 25, 2017
Beth le Roux, an Associate Professor in Publishing at the University of Pretoria, writes about the withdrawal of the book 'Mandela's Last Years' written by retired military doctor Vejay Ramlakan in an article that recently appeared on The Conversation.
Posted on August 17, 2017
Prof Henning Melber, an Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Pretoria, writes about the African middle class in an article that recently appeared on The Conversation.
Posted on August 16, 2017
Residents of Pretoria woke up to a new landmark on Monday morning after seven massive beams, each 33,55 m in length and weighing 71 tons, were installed over the weekend to construct a bridge across Lynnwood Road.
Posted on August 15, 2017
Pierre Brouard, Deputy Director of the Centre for Sexualities, AIDS and Gender at the University of Pretoria, writes about the link between substance use and gender-based violence in the tertiary environment.
Posted on August 14, 2017
Within the framework of cooperation between the MA programme "African-European Cultural Relations" at the University of Pretoria and the MA course "Cultural Foundations of Europe" at the University of Konstanz, two consecutive Summer Schools will be held on the topic of "Narratives of Origin and...
Posted on August 10, 2017
The Department of UP Arts, in association with the Faculty of Humanities, University of Pretoria, invites you to a Public Lecture presented by Professor Debra Norris (University of Delaware): I have just seen a Face, The Preservation of Photographic Collections
Posted on August 08, 2017
Prof Charles Ngwena from the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria, writes about what Women's Day means to him by drawing on the past in remembrance of Saartjie Baartman and the place of memory.
Posted on August 01, 2017
The Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship is bringing together scholars to generate discussion and research into using the broad field of the humanities and its related disciplines to understand and engage with global environmental problems.
Posted on August 01, 2017
A new Pre-Award Grants Management System (PAGMS) that was custom-developed for the University of Pretoria using the PeopleSoft system, will assist researchers at the Institution with the management and administration of funding opportunities.
Posted on July 26, 2017
The University of Pretoria's Camerata Choir has won the Grand Prix of Nations Youth Choir category at the prestigious international Grand Prix of Nations and 3rd European Choir Games 2017, held recently in Riga, Latvia.
Posted on July 26, 2017
Prof Siphamandla Zondi from the Institute for Strategic and Political Affairs in the Department of Political Sciences at UP, writes about the protests that once again marred the recent the G20 Summit and how this affects the fashioning of the futures that institutions like the G20 are designed to...
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