Posted on March 13, 2015
A collaborative team effort is needed to counter the increasing danger of bovine tuberculosis (BTB) in wildlife.
Posted on March 13, 2015
Beloved author and the subject of many academic enquiries, Sir Terry Pratchett, has died.
Posted on March 13, 2015
Dreams become inevitable when we commit to them and, perhaps equally important, when those around us also commit to them.
Posted on March 11, 2015
UP research has found that leopard survival rates in protected, as well as in non-protected areas, are low and that this is largely a result of human activities.
Posted on March 11, 2015
The Faculty of Humanities has launched three exciting new cross-disciplinary faculty research themes (FRTs) through which they hope to enhance research capacity and productivity in the Faculty, while contributing to the strengthening of the humanities as a discipline in South Africa.
Posted on March 11, 2015
The Department of Library Services hosted a presentation titled ‘Foes, follies and budgetary woes’, during which Dawie Roodt unpacked the Finance Minister Nhlanha Nene’s inaugural national Budget speech.
Posted on March 11, 2015
The University of Pretoria is proud to be the home of innovative young minds.
Posted on March 10, 2015
UP-Tuks 1’s inch-by-inch approach to the 2015 FNB Varsity Cup gathered momentum on Monday with a record 68-8 win against Minnows CUT.
Posted on March 06, 2015
Since the construction of new power capacity has been racked by delays and is unlikely to contribute to the grid in the short run, it is vitally important to find other short- to medium-term solutions to the energy crisis.
Posted on March 06, 2015
As in every year’s budget speech, the increases in taxes and levies drew the attention of especially consumers and small enterprises that usually get affected more severely.
Posted on March 05, 2015
Prof Hannes Gräbe is convinced that researchers at the University, in collaboration with railway stakeholders, have the technical expertise and facilities needed to be a leader in railway engineering in Africa.
Posted on March 03, 2015
"Consider a career as entrepreneur or small business person if you can’t find work, it will solve our unemployment problem!"
Posted on March 02, 2015
The recent UP discovery of a novel compound holds so much promise that some of the world’s leading scientists and pharmaceutical companies want to get involved in its future development.
Posted on March 02, 2015
The University of Pretoria (UP) football team, AmaTuks, progressed to the last 16 of the Nedbank Cup for the first time in five years after defeating Moroka Swallows 2‒1 at the LC de Villiers Stadium on Wednesday, 25 February 2015.
Posted on March 02, 2015
In Africa we are accustomed to highlighting poverty, hardship and disease and to take a rather dim view of the future awaiting our continent’s inhabitants.
Posted on February 27, 2015
The theme for UNESCO’s International Mother Language Day 2015 is ‘Inclusion in and through education: Language counts’.
Posted on February 27, 2015
Prof Kobus Maree's latest research article on career counseling leads in international journal.
Posted on February 27, 2015
The Department of Dogmatics affronts Western overemphasis of cognition in constituting being human.
Posted on February 26, 2015
Prof Vinny Naidoo, director of UP’s Biomedical Research Centre and specialist veterinary pharmacologist with the South African Veterinary Council, has led the way to find suitable NSAID alternatives that would be safe for vultures.
Posted on February 25, 2015
The 53-8 win will be recorded as one of the most important milestones in the University of Pretoria's Varsity Cup history – and that with a home crowd of 7000 as most willing witnesses.
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