Posted on October 09, 2015
UP's Mamelodi Mathematics and Physical Science After-School Programme aims to ensure that pupils improve their marks and that teachers are equipped with the knowledge necessary to teach these subjects better.
Posted on October 09, 2015
The Programme in Agricultural and Rural Finance provides both context and a deeper understanding of what is needed to reach out to smallholder farmers and low-income rural households, and to sustainably serve them with an appropriate range of financial products and services.
Posted on October 08, 2015
2015 marks the first year that a student team from the University of Pretoria (UP) participated in the International Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) competition and only the third time that an African team participated in this prestigious event.
Posted on October 08, 2015
The University of Pretoria (UP) was privileged to host a joint conference with The Network: Towards Unity for Health (The Network: TUFH) and the South African Association of Health Educationalists (SAAHE) in September this year.
Posted on October 06, 2015
According to staff at UP's Section Sports Medicine, successful injury surveillance could motivate sporting bodies to consider and implement rule changes to improve player safety.
Posted on October 06, 2015
Professor Nicola Viegi of the Department of Economics and his PhD student Haakon Kavli received the award for best paper in macroeconomics at the Economic Society of South Africa Conference, held in September 2015.
Posted on October 05, 2015
In a recent study by Prof Berendien Lubbe and her team at UP, researchers set out to determine South Africa's competitiveness as a tourism destination by finding out how the country is performing against its competitors.
Posted on October 05, 2015
Dominique Pröbstl, a Communication Management master’s degree student in UP’s Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, was involved in one of South Africa’s most ambitious corporate social responsibility (CSR) projects.
Posted on October 05, 2015
The JuniorTukkie Office and the Publication Team in the Department: Enrolment and Student Administration received no less than eleven awards at this year’s SA Publication Forum Award Ceremony that was held at the Premier Hotel in Kempton Park on 1 October 2015.
Posted on October 01, 2015
The University of Pretoria (UP) has been included in the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings. UP's inclusion in the rankings was announced today (1 October) at the University of Melbourne in Australia at the THE World Academic Summit.
Posted on September 30, 2015
The 2015 Global Nutrition Report will be launched on Friday, 2 October 2015 at the Indaba Hotel in Fourways, Johannesburg. The report is the first comprehensive summary and scorecard on both global and country level progress regarding all forms of nutrition across 193 countries.
Posted on September 30, 2015
Prof De Wet Swanepoel, an audiologist in the Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology at the University of Pretoria, believes that early detection of hearing problems is the key factor in the treatment of this problem.
Posted on September 29, 2015
Prof Bart Vinck and his research group from UP's Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology have done extensive research on the effect that exposure to recreational noise has on hearing loss in young people.
Posted on September 29, 2015
Prof Sunil Maharaj, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology (EBIT), and one of his students, Mr Pandelani Munyai, won the Best Paper Award at the 2015 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Africon Conference.
Posted on September 28, 2015
It is a modern day tragedy that the ancient scourge of rabies – entirely preventable with today’s vaccines – continues to cause unspeakable suffering in Africa for no other reason than a lack of awareness.
Posted on September 25, 2015
In August 2015, the Information Design Division at the University of Pretoria (UP) welcomed Prof Audrey Bennett, an Andrew W Mellon Distinguished Scholar, to the Department of Visual Arts.
Posted on September 24, 2015
Heritage Day provides an opportunity to celebrate the diversity of the people, cultures, histories, languages, religions, and traditions of South Africa in the spirit of the nation’s motto, ǃke e: ǀxarra ǁke, or unity in diversity.
Posted on September 23, 2015
Ms Yvonne Reilly, of UP's Department of Auditing, is focussed on using her skills to bring attention to South Africa's multi-layered wildlife industry and to address related concerns.
Posted on September 22, 2015
Mr Marco van Dijk, from UP’s Department of Civil Engineering, was awarded the Knowledge Tree Award in the category New Products and Services for Economic Development by the Water Research Commission (WRC).
Posted on September 22, 2015
Dr Cristiano d'Orsi, a post-doctoral fellow based at the University of Pretoria’s Centre for Human Rights, recently published a book on the protection of asylum seekers and refugees in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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