Posted on August 15, 2019
Professor Shose Kessi, Acting Dean in the Humanities Faculty at UCT, highlighted the link between art, representation and everyday consciousness at a recent lecture, titled “Towards a Decolonial Psychology: Defining and Confining Symbols of the Past”.
Posted on August 15, 2019
In the fifth interview of our #WomenofUP series for Women’s Month we profile Professor Ana Naidoo, Deputy Director: Academic Development of Students in the Department for Education Innovation.
Posted on August 15, 2019
In accordance with the provisions of the Statute and the approved Institutional Rules of the University of Pretoria, Convocation members are invited to nominate suitable candidates to fill the vacant position of President of the Convocation for a five-year term.
Posted on August 15, 2019
Prof Zander Myburg, Director of the Forest Molecular Genetics Programme in the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute at the University of Pretoria, recently received the prestigious Biotechnologist of the Year Award from the Institute of Forest Biosciences.
Posted on August 15, 2019
The Journal of Decolonising Disciplines was launched at a recent conference, titled “Unsettling Paradigms – The Decolonial Turn in the Humanities Curriculum at Universities in South Africa”.
Posted on August 14, 2019
With a career spanning 35 years, Professor Saloshna Vandeyar is still at the top of her game and her nomination for Standard Bank’s Top Women Awards is testament to this.
Posted on August 14, 2019
The University of Pretoria is now home to a spectacular 13-metre sculptural public artwork – the RMB THINK Bench, a contemporary functional piece designed to celebrate and encourage innovative and collaborative thinking.
Posted on August 13, 2019
A project that connects informal brick makers with companies that produce ash as a by-product has won Enactus University of Pretoria second place at a national competition where 15 other universities competed.
Posted on August 13, 2019
Nuclear Physicist Dr Thabsile Thabethe, whose interview is the fourth profile in our #WomenofUP series, is making an impact in society with her series of books on mathematics and science for toddlers.
Posted on August 13, 2019
Dr Dina Coertzen from the Malaria Parasite Molecular Laboratory in the Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology has been selected to participate in the International Union for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB) Young Scientist Program (YSP) at Taylor’s University...
Posted on August 12, 2019
With gender inequality still prevalent in the workplace, the need has never been greater to create, develop and foster a culture of potent and influential female leaders.
Posted on August 09, 2019
In part three of our #WomenofUP series this August, we speak to Professor Alice Chan who lectures in Innovation Management at the Graduate School of Technology Management, Faculty of Engineering, Build Environment and Information Technology. She asserts that women should have the mentality that...
Posted on August 08, 2019
South African universities are actively pursuing gender equality and academic advancement opportunities to substantially increase the number of women professors and leading researchers.
Posted on August 08, 2019
In our #WomenofUP series this August, we speak to Dr Rakgadi Phatlane who assists the Office of the Dean of the Faculty of Education with its transformation initiatives as well as the monitoring of vulnerable students.
Posted on August 06, 2019
In our #WomenofUP series this August, we speak to Prof Susan Adendorff, Director: Facilities Management, about her work at UP. She is in charge of the University’s property portfolio.
Posted on August 05, 2019
In the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, universities are expected to be central actors of scientific, social and technological change in the drive for innovation and economic growth. It is against this background that countries are enhancing their competitiveness by strengthening...
Posted on August 05, 2019
The new UP Mobile App has been launched with great features for staff, students, alumni and visitors. These features are available to users via different profiles, which can be changed by the users.
Posted on August 05, 2019
Adverse Childhood Experiences and child abuse do not receive the necessary attention and assessment they require from society. This was the collective view of experts from the USA and South Africa at a recent colloquium hosted by UP's Department of Early Childhood Education in collaboration with...
Posted on August 04, 2019
The University of Pretoria’s Jazz Ensemble and the DiTeboho Quartet blew some heat into the Hatfield Precinct at the first instalment of Jazzed UP Thursday evenings at News Café recently.
Posted on August 02, 2019
Universities in South Africa need to rediscover their higher purpose For over two decades South African higher education has been dominated by three successive and contending waves of thinking and organisation. They are: neo-liberal managerialism the decolonialisation of knowledge and, most...
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