Posted on November 29, 2022
“I’m deeply grateful for the support I’ve received from the literary community and from the University of Pretoria’s humanities faculty and Future Africa Institute,” Dr Nokuthula Mazibuko Msimang said.
Posted on November 28, 2022
“While the media must continue reporting on instances of GBVF, this reporting has to go beyond the headlines, sensationalism and alarmist reportage,” writes UP master’s student Lisa McDermid.
Posted on November 28, 2022
The University of Pretoria's Albert Luthuli Leadership Institute (ALLI) has appointed well-known and respected scholar Prof Dan Banik from the University of Oslo as extraordinary professor.
Posted on November 28, 2022
Our latest issue of RE.SEARCH is out and focuses on how the University of Pretoria (UP) is implementing transdisciplinary research to co-create new knowledge to develop solutions and design new futures for us all.
Posted on November 25, 2022
The engineering education conference as well as the Global Engineering Deans Council meeting co-hosted by UP will focus on what and how engineering university students worldwide should be taught, in line with the global digital disruption.
Posted on November 25, 2022
Vice-Chancellor Prof Tawana Kupe recently met with other Australia Africa Universities Network delegates in Australia to engage on forming equal research partnerships and identifying research and education interventions for sustainable development.
Posted on November 24, 2022
A new series of maps drawn up by Emeritus Professor Rudi van Aarde of the University of Pretoria (UP) and Dr Ryan Huang of Duke University in the US details where African elephants prefer to roam in Southern Africa.
Posted on November 23, 2022
As part of its intention to become a global African university, UP has strengthened its partnership agreement with King’s College London by renewing the joint PhD in Leadership and Security Studies that was established in 2017.
Posted on November 22, 2022
A group of UP students is working with community groups in Mamelodi to pilot a storytelling project aimed at helping secondary school learners share sensitive stories with their teachers using a mix of storytelling mediums and “storytelling boxes”.
Posted on November 22, 2022
UP recently hosted the 2022 Marketing, Advancement and Communication in Education Congress. MACE is an umbrella body of marketing, communication, and advancement practitioners at SA institutions of higher learning.
Posted on November 22, 2022
The students will support BMW Group South Africa in growing and maintaining software within its IT business, and ultimately, these new technologies, techniques, and unique perspectives will benefit South Africa.
Posted on November 22, 2022
Food security experts recently published an article in BMJ reflecting on the threats that global environmental climate change, COVID-19, and conflict have had on global food security and nutrition.
Posted on November 21, 2022
The University of York welcomed a delegation of senior University of Pretoria academics between 15–18 November 2022 to strengthen academic ties and explore common interests between the two universities.
Posted on November 21, 2022
If the issue of language is not addressed successfully, and if multilingualism is not viewed as a core skill that students should acquire, there is a risk of reproducing inequalities through the hegemony of English, says Vice-Chancellor Prof Tawana Kupe.
Posted on November 21, 2022
The visiting delegation, which included @iaeaorg Director of Division Africa Professor Shaukat Abdulrazak, was led by NuMeRI CEO and Head of the Nuclear Medicine Department at UP and Steve Biko Academic Hospital Prof Mike Sathekge.
Posted on November 21, 2022
For years now, invasive water hyacinth plants have clogged up the North West’s Hartbeespoort Dam, which lies downstream from Pretoria and Johannesburg. In new research, hydrogeologists from the University of Pretoria (UP) have used the internal workings of the plants themselves to reiterate...
Posted on November 18, 2022
The Policy Support Initiative (PSI) is a partnership between the South African and German governments that links academic expertise in South Africa’s public universities with policymakers to support evidence-based policymaking.
Posted on November 18, 2022
UP’s Diabetes Research Centre, in collaboration with digital health provider Aviro Health, has launched an app that helps community healthcare workers to deliver better diabetes care to people with type 2 diabetes.
Posted on November 17, 2022
Imagine a world in which human knowledge is equitably shared, unhindered by barriers of cost, time or national borders.
Posted on November 17, 2022
A pilot project to empower preschool teachers to grow small-scale sensory gardens at their creches was recently launched at UP’s Mamelodi Campus. Sensory gardens include features, surfaces, objects, and plants that stimulate our senses through touch, sight, scent, taste, and hearing.
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