University of Cape Town

With the launch of the Local Government Women’s Leadership Development Programme, the University of Cape Town (UCT) is in pole position to develop a pool of women leaders who are empowered, skilled, capable and equipped to make authentic,…

Estimates show that annually more than a billion children experience some form of violence and a significant proportion of that happens at schools in the Global South, according to a report co-authored by Professor Shanaaz Mathews, the…

This is what stakeholders and experts in research integrity were focused on as they hashed out a Cape Town Statement on Fostering Research Integrity in an Unequal World.Aimed at driving equality, fairness and diversity in international…

The point was made by Professor Aldin Mutembei, the Julius Nyerere Chair of KiSwahili Studies at the University of Dar es Salaam and a panellist at an Africa Month event held at the University of Cape Town’s&nbdp;(UCT) Baxter Theatre…

This is what stakeholders and experts in research integrity were focused on as they hashed out a Cape Town Statement on Fostering Research Integrity in an Unequal World.Aimed at driving equality, fairness and diversity in international…

On 16 May, ahead of Africa Day 2022, the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) hosted a celebration with the theme “The Future of Healthcare in Africa”. The hybrid event featured talks from key figures from…

The University of Cape Town (UCT) has initiated a R10 million five-year long, campus-wide project to support the environmental sustainability ambitions of its Vision 2030. The project will be supported by the vice-chancellor’s strategic…

The Hasso Plattner d-school Afrika at the University of Cape Town (UCT) together with the Global Design Thinking Alliance (GDTA) will be hosting the prestigious d.confestival, the first design thinking event of its kind in Africa, and…

A visit by the Bavarian State Chancellery and the Western Cape Government to the University of Cape Town’s Lung Institute (UCTLI) has highlighted a new trial involving BTZ-043 (benzothiazinone DprE1 blocker), a novel TB drug candidate.…

The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) newly launched From Idea to Impact (i2i) programme will support its young innovators in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) on the often technical and complex journey from research…