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  • South Africa must do more to keep teachers from seeking 'greener pastures'

    Posted on November 16, 2017

    Around the world, many teachers are choosing to leave their home countries once they've qualified. It's a global phenomenon, and one that impacts both developed and developing nations.

  • Mathematics Education professor develops apps

    Posted on August 30, 2017

    Prof Gerrit Stols, Head of the Department of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education at the University of Pretoria, has been responsible for the development of five apps for Android tablets and mobile phones.

  • Genetics – a new view

    Posted on August 24, 2017

    In May 2017, twenty-four Agricultural Science teachers and three subject advisors from Gauteng and the North West provinces, met at Bekker High School in Magaliesburg for a genetics workshop.

  • Focus on discourse analysis

    Posted on August 24, 2017

    ‘Language is connected with other elements of social life, so that social analysis and research always have to take account of language’, said Dr Louise Vincent from Rhodes University, who delivered a seminar in the Postgraduate Research Commons in June 2017.

  • Chemistry paper presented

    Posted on August 24, 2017

    Dr Kagadi Mathabate from the Department of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education presented a short paper in April at the international 253rd American Chemical Society conference at San Francisco, USA.

  • Samsung Electronics and Enterprises UP partner to promote e-learning

    Posted on June 27, 2017

    The first Samsung e-Learning for the 21st-century Educator training session was launched in Pretoria on Monday, 5 June 2017.

  • LLITUP Collaboratorium launch at Groenkloof Campus

    Posted on April 20, 2017

    The research space of the Living Lab for Innovative Teaching at the University of Pretoria (the LLITUP Collaboratorium) was recently launched at the University's Groenkloof Campus.

  • Opening up the world of autism

    Posted on April 03, 2017

    World Autism Awareness Day is celebrated annually on 2 April and aims to raise awareness about people with autism throughout the world. Ms Ilse de Bruin, a PhD student at UP, shares some interesting facts about the condition.

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