Posted on August 13, 2018
In 2017, the percentage of women in executive positions in Johannesburg Stock Exchange-listed companies was about 19%. “At this rate of improvement, it will take 200 years to reach gender equity.” This is according to Prof Jenny Hoobler, Professor of Human Resources at the...
Posted on August 12, 2018
Dr Vinet Coetzee’s main research objective is to create workable health solutions for Africa that can be used in both hospitals and rural areas. Because access to adequate health facilities is often limited in Africa, she knows her approach has to be different. Using her expertise in...
Posted on August 10, 2018
University of Pretoria researchers are helping save the South African pine industry from the destructive Sirex wasp, through a form of biological control. As part of the South African Sirex Control Programme, they are distributing millions of microscopic worms called nematodes to pine...
Posted on August 10, 2018
The South African SDG Hub, hosted by the Albert Luthuli Centre for Responsible Leadership (ALCRL) at the University of Pretoria (UP), recently launched an SDG publication, aimed at strengthening partnerships between state and non-state actors that are interested in the realisation of the...
Posted on August 02, 2018
A higher education network that entails American and South African universities working together, was launched in Johannesburg recently. The overall collaboration will strengthen various aspects of the South African higher education system. The organising members of the United States-South...
Posted on August 01, 2018
Prof Nthabiseng Audrey Ogude, Dean of the University of Pretoria’s, Mamelodi Campus, was recently appointed Vice-President of the Pan African University Council (PAU). The PAU was established by the African Union Council (AUC) as an intra-African human resource development initiative to...
Posted on July 31, 2018
The University of Pretoria (UP) is one of three South African universities taking a novel approach to analysing big data, building capacity and research expertise ahead of the deluge of data expected to come streaming in through new telescopes like the South African Radio Astronomy...
Posted on July 30, 2018
A new study from the Conservation Ecology Research Unit (CERU) at the University of Pretoria set out to unravel migration in the world’s largest terrestrial mammal – the savanna elephant. Migration, a term often associated with wildebeest in the Serengeti, is more common amongst...
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