Nursing initiative honoured internationally
ArchivesLatest newsUniversity of Cape Town June 18, 2018
UCT’s Child Nurse Practice Development Initiative (CNPDI) critical care education team has been recognised for its excellence in developing paediatric nursing capacity across the continent. The team was the winner of the 2018 Burdett Nursing Award for Global Health Impact. The inaugural awards ceremony was held on 24 May in London.... Read more
The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Graduate School of Business (GSB) has launched the first impact investment course for lawyers in South Africa, with the aim of increasing knowledge and promoting opportunities in the field of impact investment. The Legal Practice for Impact Investing course is designed for companies,... Read more
Professor Pradeep Navsaria believes that the hallmark of good teaching is an active, collaborative and curiosity-driven learning environment in which all participants are both teachers and learners. He shares some insights into his work and the approach to teaching that led to him winning a 2017 Distinguished Teacher Award (DTA).... Read more
Not only does Professor Robert Dunn practise as a celebrated spinal surgeon, he heads up the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, where he has pioneered innovative teaching practices at undergraduate, postgraduate and postdoctoral levels. It is for this excellence in teaching that Dunn was selected for... Read more
SARChI research chair for Caroline Ncube
ArchivesLatest newsResearchUniversity of Cape Town June 13, 2018
The UCT Faculty of Law has once again proved its research prowess with Professor Caroline Ncube being awarded the Research Chair in Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development through the South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI). This comes as a well-deserved acknowledgement of Ncube’s contribution to the field of intellectual... Read more
Sixth-year UCT medical student Tamaryn Green and alumnus Thulisa Keyi made the headlines when they were crowned Miss South Africa 2018 and first runner-up respectively. Green, the 60th winner of the Miss SA crown, and Keyi were crowned at an event held in Pretoria on Sunday evening. A communique... Read more
Drawing on his research and policy engagement work over the past two decades, Professor Crick Lund presented a compelling case for investing in population mental health during his inaugural lecture in the New Learning Centre on 23 May. Lund is Professor of Public Mental Health in UCT’s Department of Psychiatry... Read more
Clean sweep for Wits at international data science competition
ArchivesLatest newsUniversity of Cape Town May 29, 2018
Four Witsies learn about cloud computing, then go on and beat the global competition in the field. Four students and academics from the Wits School of Computer and Applied Mathematics walked away with top honours at an international data science competition that was hosted by Huawei in China recently.... Read more
A searching look at Lonmin Plc mining and the role of investors following the Marikana massacre in 2012 has won researchers from the UCT Graduate School of Business (GSB) first prize in the prestigious 2017 European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) Case Writing Competition in the African Business Case category. Co-authored... Read more
The proposed Cape Town water tariff for 2018/19 ignores storm water as a water augmentation opportunity, even though it could be critical in bolstering the city’s scarce water supply and its resilience to climate change, says Dr Kevin Winter of UCT’s Future Water Institute. “Social media on water matters... Read more
