Posted on May 29, 2023
May is International Internal Audit Awareness Month, and the University of Pretoria’s Centre for Internal Auditing Excellence in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences’ Department of Auditing joins the global Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) in celebrating the internal...
Posted on May 26, 2023
A panel discussion on ‘Networking the Networks’ held at @FutureAfricaUP observed that societal distrust of intellectualism and experts is a growing trend that could dilute universities’ ability to impact the “grand challenges” of the times.
Posted on May 25, 2023
“Universities must be at the forefront of developing knowledge, and must be experienced as agents and drivers of transformative impact,” says UP Vice-Chancellor and Principal Prof Tawana Kupe as part of his message this Africa Day.
Posted on May 24, 2023
Academics and industry leaders examine how research and innovation can accelerate the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area and how the continent’s higher education sector can contribute to this.
Posted on May 24, 2023
University of Pretoria (UP) researchers are at the forefront of a very special first for South African plant sciences. They have unravelled the precise genetic make-up of the country’s national flower, the king protea (Protea cynaroides). It is the first plant that’s unique to South...
Posted on May 23, 2023
UN Expert Groups (EGs) are made up of experts from diverse fields and countries drawn from academia, civil society, international organisations, business, and other sectors.
Posted on May 23, 2023
Prof Vukosi Marivate and computer science master’s students flew the UP flag high at the first International Conference on Learning Representations conference to be hosted in Africa.
Posted on May 22, 2023
Africa Week will feature a series of topical dialogues where thought leaders will interpret openness in its broadest sense to move conversations about open science towards concrete actions.
Posted on May 22, 2023
Dr Ross Elliott, a specialist small animal veterinary surgeon at UP’s Onderstepoort Veterinary Academic Hospital, worked with a team from Somaliland’s Cheetah Conservation Fund to save Janet, a cheetah, from amputation and euthanasia.
Posted on May 20, 2023
Dr Tiwonge Mzumara-Gawa, a research fellow with the FSNet-Africa Project at the Centre for Advancement of Scholarship, speaks about her research project on 'Birds, Insects, and crop interaction between subsistence farms and macadamia orchards in Malawi'.
Posted on May 19, 2023
Prof Ann Skelton of UP’s Faculty of Law has been elected to chair the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, where she will be active in holding states accountable for failures to protect the rights of children globally.
Posted on May 19, 2023
“This membership will advance our aspiration and ambition to be a global African university,” said UP Vice-Chancellor and Principal Professor Tawana Kupe.
Posted on May 19, 2023
Dr Ilse van Staden, who qualified as veterinarian at the Faculty of Veterinary Science in 1995, is not only an alumnus of the Faculty, but an acclaimed, award-winning poet, writer and artist who recently donated two copies of her debut Afrikaans novel, ‘Goeie dood wat saggies byt’...
Posted on May 18, 2023
“Most of us think we’re in the business of giving care, but the real reason is to give dignity to people,” said an attendee at the International Nurses Day event recently hosted by UP,
Posted on May 18, 2023
Dr Sansia Blackmore of the African Tax Institute writes that elected government representatives need to be accountable to taxpayers. “They owe us much by way of transparency — explaining themselves and spending our hard-earned taxes carefully, in the interest of the people,” she...
Posted on May 16, 2023
With climate change said to be affecting the intensity of rainfall, experts at the University of Pretoria (UP) have investigated if there are observable changes in the probability of significant to extreme daily rainfall across South Africa.
Posted on May 16, 2023
UP confers honorary doctorate to Africa Director of the Alliance for African Partnership (AAP), Professor Richard Mkandawire, for his outstanding influence in the transformation of Africa’s agricultural food systems.
Posted on May 16, 2023
The Thabo Bester case has unleashed a fascination for forensic science. Bridget Hilton-Barber speaks to one of South Africa's foremost forensic pathologists about the vital role of autopsies and what they tell us about the state of our nation.
Posted on May 16, 2023
The South African portion of the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study 2021 conducted by UP has found that 81% of South African Grade 4 learners are struggling to read for comprehension at age 10.
Posted on May 15, 2023
UP recently conferred an honorary doctorate on Nelson Mandela Foundation archivist Dr Verne Sheldon Harris who highlights the work of archive as “work that reaches insistently for the just society of our dreams”.
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