Posted on March 26, 2013
Of the top ten principal mother tongues in the world, Portuguese ranks fifth and is of considerable strategic importance to South Africa, especially due to the proximity of Lusophone countries like Mozambique and Angola and a strong relationship with Braz
Posted on March 26, 2013
Students and staff from the Department of Social Work and Criminology celebrated World Social Work Day on 19 March. This follows the launch of the Global Agenda for Social Work and Social Development at the United Nations Social Work Day in 2012 where soc
Posted on March 20, 2013
The reports in Media24 regarding Tuks and the Varsity Cup dispute concern a single player. The University of Pretoria (UP) would like to state the facts about the matter in order to properly inform the public. Press releases explaining the situation that
Posted on March 19, 2013
Social workers stand central in the 2030 Vision of the National Development Plan (NDP) to eliminate poverty and reduce inequality. Having adopted a developmental social welfare policy in 1997, social work has renewed its commitment to social justice and h
Posted on March 19, 2013
Drug resistance is one of the main challenges confronting HIV and TB programmes in Africa. Facing these challenges requires an understanding of how drug resistance develops, as well as up-to-date knowledge of how to diagnose and manage drug resistance in
Posted on March 18, 2013
Pretoria, 18 March 2013. With state-owned electricity provider Eskom scrambling to resolve the problems besetting its Medupi Power Station and running a multi-million rand campaign urging South Africans to save energy, the question being asked is whether
Posted on March 17, 2013
The University of Pretoria (UP) wishes to state its position regarding the dispute declared by Varsity Cup and provide further clarification in response to press reports over the past few days, including a press statement from Varsity Cup itself. Dispu
Posted on March 15, 2013
Representatives from the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies and the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology were invited to present their research findings of a study at a Research Colloquium of the National Department of Tourism (NDT) on 12
Posted on March 12, 2013
World Glaucoma Week takes place from 10 to 16 March 2013 and it is a time that we, as eye healthcare workers globally, commit to raise awareness and demystify this condition, often referred to as a
Posted on March 12, 2013
UP-Tuks 1 are a significant step closer to the 2013 Varsity Cup semi-finals after beating UJ on Monday in a true 80-minute Johannesburg thriller. Fortune changed hands twice in the last four minutes after UJ first took the lead for the very first time
Posted on March 07, 2013
The University
Posted on March 05, 2013
The Tourism Management Division has a North-South-South Student Mobility Programme and Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the University of Oulu in Finland. The MoU was signed in 2005 and focuses on collaboration in the fields of tourism managemen
Posted on March 05, 2013
The Memorandum of Understanding signed between the National Department of Tourism (NDT) and the University of Pretoria in 2012, establish a formal basis of cooperation in support of tourism research and skills development activities between the NDT and UP
Posted on March 05, 2013
The Faculty of Humanities would like to congratulate Professor Juan Bornman, who delivered her inaugural address on 21 February 2013.
Posted on March 04, 2013
UP is one of the leading institutions in malaria research in South Africa, recognised for its focus on malaria parasite biology, functional genomics, structure-based drug discovery efforts, innovative vector control strategies and public health and commun
Posted on March 01, 2013
The University of Pretoria
Posted on March 01, 2013
The University is proud to be the recipient of the SARChl Chair in Mathematical Models and Methods in Bioengineering and Biosciences. Prof Jean M-S Lubuma, a renowned mathematician who is currently the Head of the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mat
Posted on February 27, 2013
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (Deloitte) and the International Association for Accounting Education and Research (IAAER) announced the Deloitte IAAER Scholarship Program on 13 February 2013 naming five Associate Professors from Brazil, Indonesia, Polan
Posted on February 25, 2013
Over the coming weekend, from 1 to 3 March 2013, the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Pretoria will be hosting the highlight on the Department
Posted on February 22, 2013
It was a gentle clash of ideas at the Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, when two distinguished personalities, Mr Stephen Lewis, codirector of AIDS-Free World, and Mr Mandiaye Niang, Regional Representative for the United Nations Office on Drugs and
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