Posted on August 30, 2021
UP is the first higher education institution in Africa to adopt edtech company Blackboard’s Ally software to make its digital courses more accessible to students.
Posted on August 27, 2021
Integration technology “must enhance the actual learning outcomes to facilitate and improve deeper understanding of the content...it must spark creativity in the educator to improve a transformed teaching practice”. – UP lecturer Lizelle le Roux.
Posted on August 26, 2021
“A supportive institutional culture can go a long way to creating conditions for women to be the best they can be in their careers.” – Prof Sandy Africa, Deputy Dean of UP's Humanities Faculty, on gender diversity in the workplace.
Posted on August 26, 2021
Faculty of Health and the Faculty of Veterinary Science hosted experts from various faculties to discuss ways in which they are revaluating and transforming curricula and coming up with sustainable teaching and learning platforms that are aligned with evolving societal needs.
Posted on August 25, 2021
The SALRC hopes to engage young legal minds in generating innovative ideas on issues of law reform through the Legal Writing Competition, which is dedicated to the memory of the late Chief Justice Pius Nkonzo Langa.
Posted on August 25, 2021
“The latest ARWU ranking results are an indication that UP is on track with its pursuit of becoming a research-intensive university,” said the University's Dr Mxolisi Masango.
Posted on August 24, 2021
The University of Pretoria's Hatfield Digital Twin City is a novel initiative that aims to boost service delivery with the help of smart technology.
Posted on August 23, 2021
Meet Prof Ntombizozuko Dyani-Mhango, newly appointed Head of the Department of Public Law in the Faculty of Law – and the faculty’s first black woman professor and head of department.
Posted on August 20, 2021
“Setting up policies isn’t enough: the environment where those policies exist needs to transform. This must be interrogated for change.” – Ntsikie Loteni, UP Transformation Office Director, on effective transformation.
Posted on August 20, 2021
UP Vice-Chancellor and Principal Professor Tawana Kupe presented his virtual Inaugural Lecture in which he interrogated the role of the media in a disrupted society.
Posted on August 20, 2021
Prof Thulani Makhalanyane and Prof Emma Archer say that life found only in Africa, from invisibly tiny microbes to huge mammal herds and our kaleidoscope of plants can give us medicines, technologies and ways to manage climate change.
Posted on August 20, 2021
Researchers in the University of Pretoria’s Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering have surprisingly needed to use the moon to help in their goals of improving solar energy.
Posted on August 19, 2021
Dr Rakeshnie Ramoutar-Prieschl, Head: Research and Development at UP discusses her journey as a female scientist and the challenges she has faced.
Posted on August 18, 2021
Eskom Group Chief Executive André de Ruyter recently presented the 57th Hendrik van der Bijl Memorial Lecture, co-hosted virtually by UP, and spoke about a restructured electricity supply for SA.
Posted on August 18, 2021
Congratulations to UP Vice-Chancellor and Principal Professor Tawana Kupe on being appointed to the governing board of the Association for African Universities, which promotes cooperation among higher education institutions on the continent, and between them and the international academic community
Posted on August 17, 2021
“It’s very important for women to uplift each other,” says UP graduate Shilpa Ranchod, a researcher in radio astronomy. She chats about what inspired her career choice and about women in science supporting one another.
Posted on August 17, 2021
UP’s new Diabetes Research Centre, the first of its kind at a public academic institution, takes a holistic approach to addressing the challenges around the disease, from prevention to care.
Posted on August 16, 2021
UP alumnae Mankhuwe Caroline Letsoalo and Zenia Pero’s paper on the decolonisation of the LLB curriculum in historically white universities has won the first prize of the Yunus Mohamed Public Interest Award for Law, Business and Ethics.
Posted on August 16, 2021
South Africans have been found to tend towards flocking instead of taking flight as a resilience response. This is according to Professor Liesel Ebersöhn, a professor in UP's Department of Educational Psychology.
Posted on August 16, 2021
South Africans have been found to tend towards flocking instead of taking flight as a resilience response. This is according to Professor Liesel Ebersöhn, a professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Pretoria (UP) and Director of the University’s Centre for...
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