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  • StatsSA: Presentation and Supercross Workshop

    Posted on October 06, 2011

    The Institute for Women's and Gender Studies would like to cordially invite you to a presentation and workshop by Statistics South Africa.

  • GIBS receives Diamond awards

    Posted on October 04, 2011

    This week GIBS received two Diamond awards from the PMR.africa publication, based on the results of their annual national survey on Accredited Business Schools offering the MBA/MBL degrees in South Africa.

  • Lowering the value of MBAs will be detrimental to SA business and education says Nick Binedell

    Posted on October 03, 2011

    The MBA is well-established globally as a premier degree designed for business, which is accepted as not fitting neatly within the educational hierarchy.

  • Remember not to forget...

    Posted on September 30, 2011

    On Wednesday the 21st of September a group of Occupational Therapy students from the University of Pretoria, together with their lecturer, embarked on a journey to create awareness about Alzheimer's Disease.

  • Penumbra at Aardklop National Arts Festival

    Posted on September 28, 2011

    The Drama department will present the physical theatre production Penumbra on 6 and 7 October 2011 at the Aardklop National Arts Festival. Students from different year groups partake in the production. The production won a Standard Bank Ovation Award at

  • First recipient of the SAIGA Research Award in Government Auditing announced

    Posted on September 28, 2011

    The Southern African Institute of Government Auditors (SAIGA) announced that Professor Dieter Gloeck, staff member of the Department of Auditing, is the first winner of SAIGA's prestigious Research Award. Professor Gloeck is an extraordinary Professor at

  • UP wins IEEE Outstanding Paper Award

    Posted on September 28, 2011

    Prof. Sunil Maharaj of the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering and Mr. Kahesh Dhuness, postgraduate student, won the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Outstanding Paper Award for their paper entitled "A cog

  • Growing food in an old coal bunker:University of Pretoria graduate's green vision scoops sustainability award

    Posted on September 28, 2011

    Sustainability in architecture reaches far beyond the application of materials. This was proven in the work of Calayde Davey, whose master's dissertation in architecture at the University of Pretoria was awarded the first prize in the Africa and Middle Ea

  • Magnet MBA survey rates GIBS tops

    Posted on September 27, 2011

    Independent research by Magnet Communications shows that MBA students rate GIBS the highest in 7 out of 10 categories in a survey of business school satisfaction levels

  • Gogola - Growth through Knowledge

    Posted on September 26, 2011

    The executive head of the Aardklop National Arts Festival asked the department to create this exciting project in collaboration with AngloGold Ashanti's environmental management division. The project centres on environmental awareness and protection.

  • Last in the Sexuality Seminar Series for 2011

    Posted on September 26, 2011

    The seminars are co-hosted by the Institute for Women's and Gender Studies, the Centre for the Study of AIDS and the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology (all at UP), with the South African Sexual Health Association.

  • Opening of the Orange Cruyff Court at the Mamelodi Campus

    Posted on September 26, 2011

    On 22 September 2011, the Orange Cruyff Court at the University of Pretoria's Mamelodi Campus was launched by the Ambassador for the Kingdom of the Netherlands, His Excellency Mr Andr

  • Tydskrif vir Letterkunde turns 75!

    Posted on September 23, 2011

    Professor Hein Willemse of the Department of Afrikaans at UP has been the editor of the literary journal Tydskrif vir Letterkunde since 2003. The journal's 75th birthday was celebrated on the 8th of September 2011 with a small function held in the Merensk

  • World Peace Day celebrated at Sci-Enza

    Posted on September 22, 2011

    Thanks to an old Japanese legend, a thousand paper cranes descended on the Sci-Enza Science Centre at UP's Hatfield Campus on World Peace Day on Wednesday, 21 September.

  • Gender Seminar: 'Gender and the South African Research Elite'

    Posted on September 21, 2011

    The IWGS would like to cordially invite you to a seminar entitled 'Gender and the South African Research Elite' and presented by Mr Dhesigen Naidoo, Director:Research and Innovation Support, Department of Research and Innovation, UP.

  • Agenda Journal Launch

    Posted on September 21, 2011

    The Institute for Women's and Gender Studies, in partnership with Agenda Feminist Media and the Department of Education Management and Policy studies take pleasure in inviting you to the launch of 85th issue of Agenda Journal entitled "FIFA World Cup: Gen

  • Sex at sea: alternative mating system in an extremely polygynous mammal

    Posted on September 20, 2011

    Nico de Bruyn and colleagues from the department of Zoology & Entomology show that not all female seals are impregnated by the beachmaster.

  • Public Seminar: The Association of Southeast Asian Nations and Indonesia

    Posted on September 20, 2011

    The Department of Political Sciences, in association with the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia, invites you to a public seminar on "ASEAN Connectivity and ASEAN and the role of Indonesia", to be addressed by Dr Siswo Pramono and Ambassador Ibrahim Yus

  • Miss & Mr Tuks 2011

    Posted on September 20, 2011

    Congratulations to Thabani Mbule and Randy Kgodumo - the newly crowned Mr and Miss Tuks 2011!

  • TuksRugby : UP-Tuks over first hurdle at Club Champs

    Posted on September 19, 2011

    UP-Tuks made a solid start to the 2011 National Club Championships in Stellenbosch on UP-Tuks beat Roses United, the Boland champions, by 39-22 in the opening round on Saturday.

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