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VC calls for differentiated fee structure
Vice-Chancellor Dr Max Price addressing the media after the university agreed to insource all outsourced workers and student protesters' demand that there be no fee increase was met. Vice-Chancellor Dr...
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Of statues, symbolism, interdicts and insourcing! Where to next for UCT?
Students and workers converge outside Avenue House on 28 October 2015 to discuss the latest developments during the second week of campus protests. Photo by Roger Sedres Dr Russell Ally, executive...
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Exams to be held from 10 to 27 November 2015 Released: 19h10, 30 October 2015
30 October 2015 Exams to be held from 10 to 27 November 2015 Today, 30 October 2015, the Senate Executive Committee, meeting with chairs of faculty student councils and representatives of the...
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UCT Vice-Chancellor Dr Max Price reflects on how, in a matter of a week or so, the terrain of higher education – within the universities and within government – has changed...
View ArticleStatement from the Executive on the Interdict and Police action on campus
In terms of the interdict and the action by members of the South African Police Service on campus on Monday, 19 and Tuesday, 20 October 2015 the executive wishes to state the following. Students and...
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UCT working towards starting exams next week
Students hard at work studying. Photo by Michael Hammond. UCT operations are in full swing. Students are hard at work studying and there is a focus all around the campus on preparing for exams....
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UCT's newest A-rated researcher
Climate change scientist Professor Bruce Hewitson is UCT’s newest A-rated researcher following the latest round of National Research Foundation ratings. World leader: Prof Bruce Hewitson,...
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Student Leadership Awards
UCT raised a glass to some its most accomplished young role models at the annual Student Leadership Awards, held in partnership with Investec, on 13 October 2015. Students who showed...
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Water high on EBE's agenda
Engineering & Built Environment Dean Professor Alison Lewis and her team recently brought home an award from the Water Research Commission for a pioneering process to treat acid mine drainage...
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New title for outgoing registrar
It’s not only the business end of a disrupted academic year that’s absorbed outgoing Registrar Hugh Amoore in the past weeks, but the culmination of a 42-year career at UCT. Amoore...
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UCT's year-end exams completed successfully
Year-end exams at UCT ended on 27 November with the vast majority of students able to complete their exams without disruption. UCT students were more drained than usual at the end of the 2015...
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2015's Distinguished Teachers
The 2015 winners of UCT’s Distinguished Teacher Awards have been announced. They include a Hebrew scholar, a plant physiologist, an accounting lecturer and an educationist. Read their stories...
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'A good teacher? Someone who teaches to learn'
Winner of a Distinguished Teacher Award, Dr Joanne Hardman of the School of Education, gives us a peek into her classroom and talks about her teaching style, what makes a good teacher and her five top...
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'If learning is not engaging it is not happening'
Associate Professor Jacqui Kew, a 2015 Distinguished Teacher awardee from the College of Accounting, engages her students by asking questions in the classroom. She believes that students are...
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Find the 'amazing' in all you study and teach
Her classes are like communities and she’s always on the lookout for that amazing bit of information to impart when she’s teaching, says Distinguished Teacher Awardee for 2015,...
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Knowledge is not fixed in textbooks
A teacher’s job is to help students realise that the creation of scientific knowledge is on-going and dynamic, and that they have a role to play in that, says Distinguished Teacher Awardee...
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What the death of two men teaches us about our blind spot in the AIDS response
Dean Peacock from UCT's School of Public Health writes in The Conversation about the lessons that can be learnt from two men's stories: highlighting the need for lifesaving HIV services. AIDS...
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Michaelis graduate exhibition 'highlight' of art calendar
The annual Michaelis graduate exhibition at Hiddingh Campus is a highlight of the South African art calendar, offering members of the public the chance to spot up-and-coming young artists and invest in...
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'Gardening' the ocean to restore the planet
Did you know that kelp soaks up five times as much carbon as land-based plants and that ‘green farming’ can produce 30 times more biofuel than soybeans? US expert Bren Smith visited...
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UCT's biotech lab takes drug discovery to new level
The recent launch of H3D’s state-of-the-art, R22 million medicinal chemistry laboratory marks a new chapter in the university’s drug discovery programme. Drug discoverers:...
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