Posted on August 03, 2018
Learning through the medium of one’s home language can facilitate learning. Being linguistically competent in one’s home language can facilitate the learning of other languages and even learning through the medium of other languages. In a multilingual setting where English, for...
Posted on May 01, 2018
Johan Liversage, one of the lecturers in the Molecular and Cellular Biology module says the first-year students enrolled in this module come from diverse backgrounds and levels of understanding regarding cellular biology. In previous years the students were asked to make analogies for the various...
Posted on April 25, 2018
The process involved in the OSCE practical examinations in the Faculty of Veterinary Science created significant challenges due to the number of students involved. During the practical exam, students are given six minutes to do a procedure in a laboratory or the skills lab and then proceed to...
Posted on March 27, 2018
Continuing Professional Development to Enhance University Teaching
Posted on March 27, 2018
The University of Pretoria entered into a partnership with The MasterCard Foundation to offer scholarships to academically talented but financially needy youth from Africa to study at the University of Pretoria from 2014 to 2023.
Posted on March 27, 2018
The University launched a first ever Small Private Online Course (SPOC) in December 2017 to all provisionally accepted first year students for 2018. The course, entitled “At the Starting Line: Gearing up for Tertiary Education” is a fully online student preparation course that assists...
Posted on November 02, 2017
The Faculty of Health Sciences has a long and proud tradition of excellence in the education of health care professionals. At the heart of this is the Faculty's commitment to quality in teaching and learning.
Posted on October 20, 2017
For two decades the University of Pretoria (UP) has offered a blended approach to teaching and learning. This model has secured a place for UP as a leader on the African continent in the use of a blended learning model.
Posted on August 01, 2017
The Carnegie Foundation awarded a grant of $200 000 to the University of Pretoria and three other South African universities to fund research on the impact of the educational technology strategies that were deployed during the disruptions caused on campuses during the #feesmustfall campaign in 2016.
Posted on May 19, 2017
The awards for teaching and community engagement were handed over at the Achiever’s Evening on 9 May
Posted on May 02, 2017
While the traditional lecture is still the foundation of most learning at UP, the contemporary online learning environment provides students with the complementary learning opportunities required for achieving deep learning.
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