Posted on March 03, 2020
One in five people may suffer from hearing loss. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that many more are at risk of permanent hearing damage, with more than a billion students putting their hearing in danger because of unsafe listening practices.
Posted on March 02, 2020
Do you dream of becoming an artist or an engineer, a doctor, a lawyer, business leader or a scientist? Do you think you are creative enough to come up with solutions for some of the world’s biggest problems? Are you passionate about South Africa and about making a difference?
Posted on March 02, 2020
South Africa’s higher education sector has experienced turmoil in recent years. Some of it stems from students’ financial woes. Some relates to experiences of alienation in the country’s universities.
Posted on February 28, 2020
The safety and well-being of our students and staff are paramount, and we are taking proactive steps to help ensure that we have a plan of action in place to address a possible outbreak on campus. We have established a task team to assist with the implementation of our plan of action.
Posted on February 28, 2020
The University of Pretoria (UP) has partnered with the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), in Russia, in order to strengthen the University’s research efforts into nuclear sciences and related disciplines.
Posted on February 28, 2020
Former Vice-President of the Minerals Council South Africa and former Executive Head for Anglo American South Africa Andile Sangqu has been appointed as the Executive-in-Residence at the University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science for 2020.
Posted on February 27, 2020
Democratic South Africa has skeletons in the closet that it needs to address. One of these is the death of Dag Hammarskjöld, the Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN), in a plane crash shortly after midnight on 17 to 18 September 1961. The plane went down as it approached Ndola, a mining...
Posted on February 26, 2020
Associate Professor Dr Caren Scheepers of UP's Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) has won the Outstanding Contribution to the Case Method at the European Case Awards. The 11 Awards and five Competitions, which are in their 30th year, are an annual celebration of excellence in case...
Posted on February 26, 2020
The Director of UP's Centre for Child Law, Advocate Karabo Ozah, has been appointed by the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services to serve on the Advisory Committee of the South African Law Reform Commission's Project 100D on Care of and Contact with Children (incorporating Family Dispute...
Posted on February 24, 2020
A group of postgraduate University of Pretoria (UP) students from various African countries were recently awarded the annual Mastercard Foundation Scholarship.
Posted on February 24, 2020
Students who qualify for NSFAS funding will receive their allowances if they have applied online and submitted the necessary documents.
Posted on February 22, 2020
Once Mohau Chauke starts talking netball, there is no stopping her, especially on the topic of who her heroes are and why. It’s no surprise that most of them play goal attack for the Proteas – the same position she plays.
Posted on February 21, 2020
Professor Lise Korsten, co-director at the Centre of Excellence in Food Security at the University of Pretoria, discusses the importance of healthy food. She also looks at the steps that can be taken to ensure that outbreaks like the listeriosis outbreak that recently hit South Africa hard do not...
Posted on February 21, 2020
Huawei Technologies South Africa has once again invested in students from the University of Pretoria’s (UP) Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment and Information Technology by awarding them bursaries at a recent ceremony that was attended by Huawei executives and staff from...
Posted on February 19, 2020
Researchers at the University of Pretoria and the University of Leicester are revolutionising the way TB is detected through the invention and application of a 3D-printed insert added to simple face masks. This new approach has the potential to detect millions of currently missed infections...
Posted on February 19, 2020
The University of Pretoria’s Faculty of Veterinary Science recently celebrated a century of veterinary education in South Africa.
Posted on February 19, 2020
The Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria is proud to announce that its Director of the Centre for Child Law, Adv Karabo Ozah, was appointed by the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services, Ronald Lamola MP, to serve on the Advisory Committee of the South African Law Reform...
Posted on February 18, 2020
More than two years have passed since the detection of what is arguably the most damaging tree pest ever to arrive in South Africa: the polyphagous shot hole borer (Euwallacea fornicatus). The beetle kills trees and there are no proven remedies.
Posted on February 18, 2020
Injury-prone Othaniel Phahlane proved on Saturday with his victory in the Bestmed TuksRace 42.2km that good things happen to those who persevere.
Posted on February 18, 2020
UP has significant strengths in the field of human, animal and environmental health and aims to enhance One Health networks in Africa, said Vice-Chancellor and Principal Professor Tawana Kupe at the LEAP-Agri/LEARN consortium meeting recently hosted at UP’s Future Africa.
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