The University of Cape Town's Graduate School of Business (GSB) has received accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), making it one of the few business schools in the world to hold the prestigious title of being 'triple-crown' accredited. Read more...

With a corps that is 83% white and almost 80% male, the actuarial profession in South Africa faces formidable transformation challenges. In the field, an amalgam of advanced mathematics and statistics, UCT's Shivani Ramjee is rare as hen's teeth. Read more...

A UCT-led research team is blazing the trail for a participatory approach to creating public spaces. Little besides dust drifts between the tightly-packed tin dwellings of Monwabisi Park in Khayelitsha. Read more...

Professor Nan Yeld, the outgoing dean of UCT's Centre for Higher Education Development (CHED) will return to her research career but not before a well-earned sabbatical. Her decade-long contribution as dean was honoured at an official farewell on 12 June. Read more...

"Musically dynamic and refined." This is how audio production giant Avid described the sound of Break & Fall, a song written and performed by two UCT music students and which won a prestigious international competition,- beating out close to 5 000 other pop hopefuls from across the world. Read more...

Millions of children have been introduced to the joy of reading through the Nal'ibali campaign, which in the last year distributed close to 10 million supplements promoting reading for enjoyment and multilingual literacy. Read more...

A new clinical trial by the UCT Lung Institute's Centre for TB Research Innovation (CTBRI) is not only innovative in design and in its collaborative nature, but it's also the first major African TB study to use a complete source-based electronic data capture and verification system. Read more...

After receiving honorary degrees at last Friday morning's graduation ceremony, Caiphus Semenya and Letta Mbulu's soulful medley received a standing ovation from the platform party, graduates and guests alike. As one of South Africa's most famous musical 'exports', the husband and wife duo were honoured for their role as unofficial cultural ambassadors and for their sustained commitment to the socio-economic well-being of all South Africans. Read more...

The youngsters were making the most of SHAWCO's Community Day in Manenberg, which kicked off celebrations of the student-run welfare organisation's 70th anniversary. SHAWCO uses one of the school's classrooms as its Manenberg Community Centre. Read more...

Responding to the sightseeing aspirations of Pan-African postgraduates is just one way the School of Economics in the Faculty of Commerce is helping UCT students from the rest of Africa feel at home on the most southerly tip of the continent. Read more...

A panel discussion inspired by African literary great Chinua Achebe, who passed away earlier this year, formed part of the closing proceedings of UCT's Africa Month celebrations on 24 May. Acclaimed Nigerian author and international scholar Achebe, dubbed the 'grandfather of modern African literature', passed away in March, and the Africa Month Panel Discussion, hosted at the Golden Arrow Studio at the Baxter Theatre Centre, was titled Things Fall Apart? Read more...

This week saw the release of the American Psychiatric Association's 5th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).

The DSM is used throughout the world and this is the first revision in nearly two decades. Not surprisingly, it has received a good deal of media coverage across the globe. Read more...

Four UCT students will walk 500km of the Eastern Cape's Kei River in June, starting in the Great Winterberg Mountains and ending at the river mouth on the Indian Ocean. En route they will collect valuable water samples that will gauge the river's health and the impact of climate change - and at the same time, learn more about the social dynamics of communities divided by the river. Read more...

Canadian scientists were the perfect partners for their South African peers in physics and space exploration and the two countries had only begun to scratch the surface of what they could share and achieve together. This was the contention of David Johnston, Governor-General of Canada, in his keynote address at a recent UCT panel discussion on international education and science collaboration. Read more...

UCT finalists in the NSTF-BHP Billiton awards. Six UCT scholars and units are finalists in the prestigious 2012/13 National Science and Technology Forum-BHP Billiton awards. This year, the NSTF celebrates its 15th awards, which recognise, acknowledge and promote excellence in the South African research and development community. Read more...

The UCT Consulting Club held its annual Case Competition final event in May, the culmination of a month-long competition that included 400 students from UCT, Wits and Stellenbosch Universities, vying for the R10 000 grand prize. Read more...