The 2018 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), which was released on 15 August 2018 by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy, indicates that the Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria, based on publications, are ranked top 151 to 200 in the world.   This is an impressive feat, given the fact that as of... Read more

After receiving thousands of entries from across the country and putting entrants through a rigorous four-phase judging process, South Africa’s top 100 university students have been named. With 30 entries, students from the University of Pretoria dominate the list. The GradStar programme, sponsored by DHL, IBM, Comair, Accenture, Fasken and... Read more

If breastfeeding did not already exist, someone who invented it today would deserve a dual Nobel Prize in medicine and economics” –  Keith Hansen, World Bank (2016). At the beginning of every August, we celebrate World Breastfeeding Week (WBW). And every year we are reminded of the elixir-like qualities... Read more

A higher education network that entails American and South African universities working together, was launched in Johannesburg recently. The overall collaboration will strengthen various aspects of the South African higher education system. The organising members of the United States-South Africa Higher Education Network are Rutgers University-Newark, the University of... Read more