Posted on June 12, 2020
Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) lecturers Professor Caren Scheepers and Dr Tracey Toefy have won the award for Best African Business Case at the prestigious European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) 2019 Case Writing Competition.
Posted on June 11, 2020
A very special patient was airlifted under risky circumstances from the Johannesburg Zoo to the University of Pretoria’s (UP) Onderstepoort Veterinary Academic Hospital, after his condition had veterinarians worried.
Posted on June 11, 2020
The Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, notes with grave concern the instances of death and other human rights violations due to excessive force during law enforcement in South Africa. We note that these are not isolated instances, but are linked to inequalities based...
Posted on June 11, 2020
The recent killing of George Floyd in the USA at the hands of four police officers has led to global protests demanding justice for his murder.
Posted on June 11, 2020
Protecting your business idea is crucial for the success of any business, particularly a new one. On 3 September, intellectual property firm KISCH IP will partner with TuksNovation at the University of Pretoria to present a masterclass on intellectual property (IP) for budding entrepreneurs and...
Posted on June 11, 2020
Professor Annet Wanyana Oguttu of the University of Pretoria’s (UP) Department of Taxation and African Tax Institute has been appointed by the United Nations as a member of the High-Level Panel on International Financial Accountability, Transparency and Integrity for Achieving the 2030...
Posted on June 10, 2020
The University of Pretoria (UP) has collaborated with Pennsylvania State University to translate a global learning tool into local languages to support learners in how they think about content.
Posted on June 10, 2020
University of Pretoria (UP) Vice-Chancellor and Principal Professor Tawana Kupe has been elected to serve on the International Council of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR).
Posted on June 09, 2020
While it will take time to fully understand the scope of COVID-19’s impact on food and agriculture, we can look at the current state of food systems in Africa and what countries are doing to ensure that the food security of tens of millions of people does not succumb to the worst...
Posted on June 09, 2020
The University of Pretoria (UP) cares for all our students and would like to ease the financial burden for you and your family.
Posted on June 09, 2020
“Life seldom goes the way you plan it, and that is okay – I got accepted to study at the University of Pretoria [UP] on my second try,” says Thobeka Dlangalala, who received a master’s degree in microbiology from UP as one of 11 000 graduates who were awarded their degrees...
Posted on June 09, 2020
The special patient aboard the helicopter was Makokou, a 34-year-old male Western lowland gorilla from the Johannesburg Zoo who was airlifted to Onderstepoort for a CT scan of his nasal passages.
Posted on June 08, 2020
Small-scale fishers in South Africa remain significantly marginalised, and the emergence of COVID-19 has worsened the situation.
Posted on June 08, 2020
The first ever university and industry textbook on diversity management in the South African workplace reveals that race and gender representation remains largely elusive, in both the public and private sectors.
Posted on June 07, 2020
There is no evidence to date that the new coronavirus which causes COVID-19 can be transmitted by food. The association of transmission with the wet food market in Wuhan, China, has led to much misinformation about COVID-19 being spread in food. The virus, it needs to be emphasised, is...
Posted on June 06, 2020
University of Pretoria (UP) academic Professor Matthys Dippenaar has appealed to municipalities to monitor groundwater and/or surface water that are close to sites where cemeteries are located, in light of the more than 50 000 COVID-19-related deaths that are being forecast in South Africa over...
Posted on June 05, 2020
Five academics from the University of Pretoria (UP) are finalists in the 2019/2020 National Science and Technology Forum’s (NSTF) prestigious NSTF-South32 Awards.
Posted on June 05, 2020
More than 250 participants from South Africa and 12 countries across four continents joined an online meeting of the Tree Protection Co-Operative Programme (TPCP) and DSI NRF Centre of Excellence in Plant Health Biotechnology (CPHB) hosted by the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology...
Posted on June 05, 2020
Highly regarded researchers Professor Bernard Slippers and Professor Antoinette Lombard of the University of Pretoria (UP) have won prestigious awards from the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (South African Academy for Science and Art). Prof Slippers, of the Department of...
Posted on June 05, 2020
Three scientists from the University of Pretoria (UP) have received a prestigious international fellowship to lead their own research teams at UP’s Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI).
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