UCT GSB’s EMBA ranked 31st globally for Overall Satisfaction by the Financial Times
The UK’s Financial Times has placed the UCT GSB among the best EMBAs in the world for alumni satisfaction in its new 2024 rankings.
2024 UCT Teaching and Learning Conference
UCT’s 2024 Teaching and Learning Conference, themed “All About Curriculum: New Visions and Future Directions”, takes place on Wednesday, 20 and Thursday, 21 November 2024. The full programme and book of abstracts are now available.
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UCT Inaugural Lecture: Professor Sithombo Maqungo
Professor Sithombo Maqungo will present his inaugural lecture “Been there, fixed that, presented there and published that. Is this all there is to the life of an academic trauma surgeon?” on Thursday, 28 November 2024 at 17:30 SAST.
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2025 Summer School: 20 January – 1 February
Celebrate 101 years of lifelong learning at the University of Cape Town. Join us at Summer School in January 2025 and feast your mind on lectures presented by world-class scholars on ground-breaking research topics.
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Applications for 2025 coursework postgraduate studies have closed
Seize the opportunity to join Africa’s leading university. Find out everything you need to know about applying for postgraduate studies at UCT.
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UCT Semester Study Abroad Programme
The UCT Semester Study Abroad Programme offers international students academic excellence, diverse perspectives, and an unforgettable adventure. Applications for the first semester of 2025 closed on 31 October 2024.
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UCT is committed to generating new knowledge in, for and from Africa. Our recent achievements include identifying a new heart-attack gene and a landmark restitution of human remains that allowed redress and social justice through science.
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UCT and the Sustainable Development Goals
UCT is committed to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and contributes meaningfully to all 17 of them. As the leading university in Africa, we have a critical role to play in addressing global challenges through research.
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Research and innovation: highlights 2020/21
Despite the global pandemic – and, in fact, driven by the increased urgency it created – the year of 2020/21 at UCT was marked by great research achievements and several seminal events informed by and feeding into our forward thinking.
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Integrated Energy Systems - 11 November-26 January 2025
(Ends 26 January 2025)
More infoDept. of Electrical Engineering course
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Online course
Modelling and Simulation of Wastewater Treatment Systems
(Ends 15 November 2024)
More infoDept. of Civil Engineering course
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Online course
Commercial and court-aligned mediation training
A 40-hour remote mediation training course that covers the essentials needed to become an effective mediator in any field or industry.
Whistleblowing: Practical implications
This four-hour remote short course will help participants understand the implications of the Protected Disclosures Act, No. 26 of 2000 (as amended in 2017) for their organisation’s whistleblowing programme.
Notices
Annual General Meeting (AGM) of UCT Convocation
Members of the UCT Convocation are hereby notified that the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Convocation will be convened as a hybrid meeting (ie on a virtual online platform and in-person attendance as preferred) and is scheduled to take place on Thursday, 5 December 2024 at 17:00.
The AGM takes place in accordance with the UCT Statute.
Council’s letters to individuals referenced in the panel’s report
The UCT Chair of Council, Mr Norman Arendse (SC), has written letters of apology to individuals who have been wronged as referenced in the report of the independent panel, as well as to the 37 anonymous complainants referred to in the Ombud Report.