Senate
Academic matters fall under the control of Senate, which comprises the members listed on this page.
Institutional Forum
The Institutional Forum was established in terms of the Higher Education Act, 1997, and advises the Council on matters specified in the Act.
Committee structures
UCT's committees and working groups are organised in clusters, providing a logical hierarchy, while maintaining simplicity, accountability and defined responsibilities.
Legislation
The University of Cape Town (UCT) statute, institutional rules and regulations provide the framework for governance at the university.
Student governance
Please visit the Department of Student Affairs website for information on the following:
Professor Mosa Moshabela
MBChB: University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2001; Diploma in HIV (SA): Colleges of Medicine of South Africa, 2006; Master's in Family Medicine: University of Limpopo, 2009; PhD: University of the Witwatersrand, 2012; MSc in Demography & Health: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, 2017. He is currently enrolled in an EMBA programme at the Henley Business School, University of Reading.
Mr Royston Pillay
Royston Pillay was appointed university registrar on 1 January 2016.
Associate Professor Kasturi Behari-Leak
Associate Professor Kasturi Behari-Leak has been appointed dean of the Centre for Higher Education Development (CHED) from 1 April 2022.
Associate Professor Behari-Leak has a long history in education, with 32 years spent in the education space, of which 17 have been in higher education. This includes, but is not limited to, educational and organisational leadership, higher education transformation, social inclusion and educational change, decolonial practice, curriculum development and pedagogical innovation.
Professor Alison Lewis
Professor Alison Lewis took up her position as the dean of the Faculty of Engineering & the Built Environment on 1 June 2015 and was appointed for a second five-year term in 2020.
Previously, Professor Lewis was the head of the Department of Chemical Engineering since 2013, and a professor of chemical engineering since 2007. She originally joined the department as a senior lecturer in 1996 after completing her PhD and a postdoctoral fellowship in the Water Research Group in UCT’s Department of Civil Engineering.