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  • New Deputy Dean appointed in Faculty of Education

    Posted on January 21, 2014

    Prof Max Braun has been appointed as the new Deputy Dean in the Faculty of Education. Prof Braun was Head of Department of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, in the Faculty of Education at the University of Pretoria, since 2009. He has been

  • Seminar invitation: Peacemaking and human security in Africa

    Posted on January 20, 2014

    The Department of Political Sciences and the Mellon Research Group on Peace and Conflict in Africa invite you to a seminar entitled "Peacemaking and Human Security: Examining the conceptual relationship and questions raised for South Africa's role in peac

  • Welcome to all UP students

    Posted on January 15, 2014

    Welcome to the University of Pretoria (UP), a leading South African university. You have succeeded in being selected from the over 40 000 students who applied for admission to Tuks, as we are popularly known.

  • UP Vice-Chancellor appointed to Talloires Network steering committee

    Posted on January 13, 2014

    The Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Pretoria, Prof Cheryl de la Rey, has been appointed as one of the three new members of the Steering Committee of the Talloires Network, an international association of institutions committed to streng

  • Positive discourse needed around matric results

    Posted on January 13, 2014

    Prof Irma Eloff, Dean of the Faculty of Education at UP, is cautiously optimistic about the future of school education in South Africa. The 2013 matric pass rate of 78,2% was greeted with praise from some quarters, but with scepticism from others. In an i

  • Faculty of Law delivers another group of Master of laws in human rights graduates

    Posted on December 18, 2013

    The Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria congratulates its class of 2013 Master of Laws (LLM) in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa on graduating on International Human Rights Day, 10 December 2013. Twenty three studen

  • Tribute to Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

    Posted on December 13, 2013

    Our beloved Madiba, we thank you very much for what you did for us and for our country. Your struggle for justice, freedom and equality was an example, not only for all South Africans, but indeed for the whole world.

  • Second group of clinical associates graduates from the University of Pretoria

    Posted on December 12, 2013

    On 9 December 2013, 62 Bachelor of Clinical Medical Practice (BCMP) graduates from the University of Pretoria

  • Justice Johann van der Westhuizen, founding director of the centre for human rights receives an honorary doctorate from the University of Pretoria

    Posted on December 12, 2013

    Justice Johann van der Westhuizen, judge of the Constitutional Court and founding director of the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, on 10 December 2013, International Human Rights Day, received an honorary doctorate from the University of P

  • University of Pretoria honours the Legacy of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

    Posted on December 12, 2013

    The University of Pretoria joined the world in mourning the passing, on 5 December 2013, of the first democratically elected president of South Africa, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela. On Wednesday, 11 December 2013, staff and students of the University attende

  • Centre for Human Rights draws attention to women

    Posted on December 12, 2013

    In the context of a conference on women

  • Prof Brenda Wingfield received A-rating from NRF

    Posted on December 10, 2013

    Prof Brenda Wingfield, a researcher of high international standing received an A-rating from the National Research Foundation (NRF), effective from 2014. She is also the first women in the Faculty to receive this rating. This achievement is even more e

  • Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (1918 - 2013)

    Posted on December 06, 2013

    The Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Pretoria, Professor Cheryl de la Rey, on behalf of the University community, joins South Africa and the world in mourning the loss of Nelson Mandela.

  • Integrated reporting yearbook 2013 released

    Posted on December 04, 2013

    The Albert Luthuli Centre for Responsible Leadership and its Integrated Reporting Team launched the Integrated reporting yearbook 2013 on 28 November. The same date also saw a celebration in honour of the first group of students to complete the Postgradua

  • UP innovation offers hearing screening solution for children

    Posted on December 04, 2013

    A revolutionary innovation that offers a cost-effective solution to the current barriers of school-based hearing screening, is the result of a recent collaboration between Prof. De Wet Swanepoel from the Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiolo

  • UP student takes top honours in SAIEE competition

    Posted on December 03, 2013

    The 2013 National Student Project Competition of the SAIEE (South African Institute of Electrical Engineers) was hosted by the University of Pretoria on 28 November. Top final-year students from South African universities and universities of technology took part in the competition.

  • Best Professor in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering from UP

    Posted on December 03, 2013

    The Head of the Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of Pretoria, Prof Josua Meyer, has received an award by the World Education Congress as Best Professor in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering.

  • Season's greetings

    Posted on December 03, 2013


    Wishing you and your family love, peace, and joy this Holiday Season and in the New Year.

    Ons wens u en u gesin liefde, vrede en vreugde toe gedurende die Feestyd en in die Nuwe Jaar.

    Re lakalet

  • Forensic Anthropology book launched at the Faculty of Health Sciences

    Posted on November 27, 2013

    Deputy Minister of Health, Dr Gwen Ramokgopa, celebrated the launch of the latest edition of The Human Skeleton in Forensic Medicine authored by Prof Maryna Steyn, a physical anthropologist and the Director of Forensic Anthropology Research Centre, based

  • Students contribute towards saving the rhino

    Posted on November 27, 2013

    Students of the Tourism Management Division hosted two Save the Rhino events. The first was an exhibition in the Merensky Library of the University of Pretoria in October where ceramic rhinos, painted by students and lecturers, were showcased. The second

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