University of Cape Town

Several South African universities, including the University of Cape Town (UCT), have partnered with Scotland’s University of Stirling (UoS) to address the PhD shortage currently faced in South Africa. Funded by the Department of Higher…

The University of Cape Town (UCT) awarded two full-scale research programmes and four pilot projects as part of the UCT Vision 2030 Grand Challenges Programme. Each of these projects, developed by an interdisciplinary team and chosen from a…

The University of Cape Town (UCT) has placed 31st in the world and top in Africa in ShanghaiRanking’s Global Ranking of Sport Science Schools and Departments. UCT jumped up 18 places from 49th position in the 2022 ranking to 31st in 2023.…

It was once again time for the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) most important academic event: graduation, an occasion adorned with the honour it deserves as graduands took to the stage on 14 and 15 December. The air in the Sarah Baartman…

“We need to reckon with exclusion and who’s excluded, and begin to find the language to name the trauma,” said Deputy Vice-Chancellor (DVC) for Transformation, Student Affairs and Social Responsiveness Professor Elelwani Ramugondo.…

It was celebrations all round as the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Hasso Plattner School of Design Thinking Afrika (d-school) building was named the winner of the 2023 South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE) Technical…

The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Students’ Representative Council (SRC) and the University of the Future (UoF) Steering Committee hosted a co-create challenge event on Friday, 8 September in the Sarah Baartman Hall. This served as an…

A key technical report, which had Professor Harald Winkler from the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) School of Economics as one of the two facilitators, has found that many creative and actionable solutions to overcome climate change…

The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching (CILT) has launched three guides to help staff and students navigate artificial intelligence (AI) and AI-driven tools such as ChatGPT in their teaching and…

Fifth-year Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBChB) student Moses Malebana’s stellar academic record has paved the way for a special international elective at the University of Graz – making him the maiden recipient of this golden…