University of Cape Town

The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Students’ Representative Council’s (SRC) recent fashion show, which centred around pan-Africanist themes and emphasised environmental sustainability, has raised in excess of R2 million during the grand…

How to collectively achieve a reframed teaching and learning experience at the University of Cape Town (UCT) from the perspective of academics and students was up for debate during a panel discussion at the 2022 Teaching and Learning…

It was a busy start to the spring holiday as dozens of teachers rolled up their sleeves to participate in the Newly Qualified Teachers’ Project’s (NQT) Spring School – a series of professional development workshops designed to help build…

Almost 100 years ago, just after the now-famous South African Modernist artist Irma Stern’s (1894 – 1966) first exhibition in Cape Town, a review in the local press appeared under the headline “Freak Picture Exhibition, the Art of Miss…

You live with brain fog, short-term memory loss, ringing ears, vertigo, shortness of breath, anxiety and depression. Some days are good; some days you feel drained by 11:00 or 12:00 and then on another day, you wake up so tired that you…

The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Graduate School of Business hosted the Southern Hemisphere’s first Surface Ocean – Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS) Open Science Conference from 25 to 29 September 2022, a hybrid gathering of almost 200…

A new paper published in the top journal Nature Ecology & Evolution explores how we evolved through a complex process of hybridisation between Neanderthals and ancient humans at multiple points in ancient history. It debunks the…

The University of Cape Town (UCT) is launching its Conversation Series on 24 October from 10:00 to 12:00, with a focus on anti-racism. The series will run until 27 October.In June 2022, UCT released the new anti-racism policy and related…

The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) International Office celebrated Heritage Month with soccer tournaments, food and music.On Saturday, 1 October, The International Academic Programmes Office (IAPO) invited all international students to…

Award-winning research into antiretroviral (ARV) treatment adherence, led by PhD student Siyanai Zhou and University of Cape Town (UCT) academic Professor Lucie Cluver, established that intimate partner violence (IPV) and other forms of…