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Creative careers are big business
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UFS, Tiger Brands take agricultural research from the laboratory to food value chain
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Why tertiary education still matters in a changing economy
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Graduate earns PhD at 82 and champions family-centred postnatal care
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Skills partnership opens green-economy pathways for Bay engineering graduates
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Scholarship graduate sets sights on giving back
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SA’s tertiary education capacity crisis gains momentum
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91% of SA executives: “AI has improved work, but can’t say why”
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SA can close its critical artisan gap by fixing the path from training to qualification
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Delecia Davids makes history with prestigious Einstein Fellowship
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The much-acclaimed play The Fall returns to the Baxter Theatre this September in the wake of global events signalling the importance of decolonisation across the world. The cast, consisting of UCT alumni, enjoyed resounding international success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, with standing ovations and five-star reviews across the board. The...
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A UCT sports scientist is a member of the international Sub2hr marathon project to crack the elusive two-hour barrier − without drugs. The project, which is the brainchild of Professor Yannis Pitsiladis (University of Brighton), harnesses the best of sports science and an elite team of athletes. The Sub2hr...
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Amy Booth and Nicholas Loxton of UCT’s Surgical Society talking about the Kilimanjaro climb and the society’s other projects. Video by Saadiq Behardien UCT’s Surgical Society is planning to summit the daunting Mount Kilimanjaro this December to raise funds to buy a life-saving kidney dialysis machine for Groote Schuur...
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Ten recent graduates from UCT’s Department of Chemical Engineering will be completing their master’s degrees abroad, with the bulk of students attending the University of Cambridge in the UK. “In academia, we highly value it when our students decide to go one level further because we need to know...
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“It is said that what hides in the dark will be revealed in the light. So what if I told you that I want to use light to illuminate one of the most prominent issues in the darkest times of drought?” This was Nyasha Chimhandamba’s opening to the winning...
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An innovative Upper Triassic–Lower Jurassic magnetic barcode developed during the PhD research of Dr Lara Sciscio, of UCT’s Department of Geological Sciences, provides a relative age that aids in configuring the timeline and occurrence of the end-Triassic mass extinction event and Early Jurassic post-extinction recovery in the Southern Hemisphere....
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The University of Cape Town (UCT) is now the first university on the continent to offer a specialisation in its MSc degree that is specifically designed to equip students with the necessary skills and knowledge to embrace the technological revolution in the financial services sector. South Africa’s financial services industry...
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An eye-watering odour wafts through UCT’s Sports Hall 2. The pungent gas doesn’t seem to bother the dozens of schoolchildren who are gathered in the sports centre. In fact, more and more are crowding around the source. It was perhaps not so much teenage tomfoolery as it was scientific...
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The sky isn’t the limit for two master’s students from UCT’s SpaceLab who have been selected for the International Astronautical Federation’s (IAF) 2017 Emerging Space Leaders (ESL) Grant Programme. Ani Vermeulen and Louis Feng, who are both working toward their MPhil in space studies at UCT, are among the...
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For youngsters Brandon Como and Grant Oosterwyk, growing up on the Cape Flats was about economic survival and avoiding gangs. No one talked about university. But they had other ideas – and they changed the trajectory of their and their families’ lives, and their community. In his 30 years...
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