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Xenophobia - information for staff and students
SSA students: new grade & credit conversion system implemented
Attention Rwandan students: concession to pay local fees to fall away.
Student Orientation leadership training: 14 Aug - 16 Oct
Postgraduate degree funding: deadline dates for 2010

Events

Introductory Chinese (students)
02 Aug - 15 Sep

Postcolonial memory & the post-apartheid imagination, by Pumla Gqola
02 Aug

Creating a technology transparent learning environment, by Oliver Lawrence
02 Aug

Leadership Week - hosted by the Department of Student Affairs
02 Aug - 04 Aug

Constitutions and the Public-Private Divide - a seminar
02 Aug

Conversational Chinese 1 (staff)
03 Aug - 31 Aug

Liederabend: Schumann & his circle liederabend
03 Aug

Rethinking urbanism, by Mark Swilling
04 Aug

Beethoven & Rachmaninoff, by Francois Botha (piano)
04 Aug

RefWorks Intermediate workshop: Learning more about RefWorks, by Peter Underwood
04 Aug

Free Lunchtime Concert
05 Aug

Disruptive innovation in higher education: Peer 2 Peer University, by Philipp Schmidt
05 Aug

The pricing of liabilities in an incomplete market, by Prof Rob Thomson
05 Aug

Women's struggles: political to personal, global & local
05 Aug

UCT Symphony Orchestra
10 Aug

News and highlights


Sunday, 1 August 2010
Be sure not to miss our byte-sized news stories and pictures!

Sporty two blaze to glory

Drum playersLydia Hall and Frans Mamabolo, sports administrators in UCT's Sport & Recreation section, were recently honoured by University Sport South Africa (USSA) for their service and commitment to student sport and their work within USSA specifically. Read more...


South Africa failing its children - report

Child Guage reportThe South African Child Gauge 2009/2010 can probably be summed up as a damning report on the state of health of South Africa's young. The Gauge is an annual publication of the Children's Institute at UCT, and aims to track and report the situation of the country's children. Read more...


Obituary: Graham Beck

Graham BeckMining entrepreneur, self-made billionaire, renowned horse breeder and famous for his eponymous wines, Graham Beck, died on 26 July at a clinic in London. Beck, who would have been 81 in December, had been diagnosed with lung cancer in early 2010. Read more...


Plant physiologists goes gold

Professor Jill FarrantIf water stress is the Achilles' heel of agriculture and climate change is just tightening the screws, it's a good thing that scientists like Professor Jill Farrant are "working on the right thing at the right time". Read more...


New award to encourage young medical scientists

AttendeesYoung medical researchers were honoured for their outstanding output at the first Best Publication Awards held by UCT's School of Medicine on 26 July. Opening the ceremony, deputy dean Professor Greg Hussey said that he hoped the awards would become a regular event, and will encourage and retain young researchers at the faculty. Read more...


Crash course in South Africa for US visitors

AttendeesMaster's and PhD researchers from the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) in the US, led by Professor Mary-Beth Gasman, were warmly welcomed by UCT's International Academic Programme Office (IAPO) and the Centre for Higher Education and Development (CHED) at a function on 21 July. Read more...


Students divided on long vac

Students on campusIt was back to old routines yesterday when UCT students returned to lecture rooms following an extraordinarily long six-week winter vacation, thanks, in part, to the 2010 Soccer World Cup. So everyone had the first-day blues, as student Lorraine Netshivhambe puts it, with long-separated classmates hugging one another. Read more...


Be creative, Price tells new managers

Line managersA new cohort of line managers was unveiled at UCT when 12 staff members celebrated the completion of a national certificate in management programme, offered, for the first time, through the Staff Learning Centre. Read more...


A retreat from the hospital

Primary Health Care Directorate's Frank MoltenoThe Faculty of Health Sciences has officially launched a new student learning centre in the Cape Flats suburb of Retreat, where students will work and learn in the kinds of health-care conditions they will probably run into often during their careers. Read more...


Pinup science for nation's schools

poster creators Thousands of edu-taining posters and flyers are part of UCT's Faculty of Science's contribution to this year's National Science Week, which takes place from 2 to 7 August. The three posters, targeting mainly primary school learners, are fact-filled, full-colour sheets on the themes The Secret Life of Viruses, Metal-Making in the Past, and Evolution: the Process of Natural Selection. Read more...




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