UCT remains the top university in Africa, holding its position at ninth in the 2019 Times Higher Education (THE) Emerging Economies University Rankings.
Orientation is a set of programmes designed to introduce first-year students to the different facilities and unique aspects of university life. It usually begins with parent orientation, where the parents of new students are invited to familiarise themselves with the university. Parent orientation will be live-streamed on the UCT website.
UCT’s researchers have been analysing the causes of the current drought, looking into water usage in the city and on campus, and finding ways in which we can save water now for a sustainable future.
UCT is an inclusive and engaged research-intensive African university that inspires creativity through outstanding achievements in learning, discovery and citizenship; enhancing the lives of its students and staff, advancing a more equitable and sustainable social order and influencing the global higher education landscape.
UCT is an inclusive and engaged research-intensive African university that inspires creativity through outstanding achievements in learning, discovery and citizenship; enhancing the lives of its students and staff, advancing a more equitable and sustainable social order and influencing the global higher education landscape.
2018–2019 World University Rankings
1st IN AFRICA
156 Times Higher Education
200 Quacquarelli Symonds
The Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship has partnered with the Grunin Center for Law and Social Entrepreneurship at NYU School of Law to host a three-part webinar series that equips impact investing professionals, particularly lawyers, with the knowledge and skills to effectively serve high impact organisations wanting to raise capital. Participants will hear from international and local legal experts in the field and gain insights into the practical legal issues that come about when making and living with an impact investment.
The aim of the course is to introduce students to the techniques used in the analysis of “cross-sectional” panel data sets, such as the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS). The course will begin with an introduction to using and analysing panel data.
Course participants should be familiar with Stata and with basic statistical tools.
Entrepreneurs’ dispositional factors; Entrepreneurs’ self-care and boundary setting; Entrepreneurship in culturally diverse settings;
Entrepreneurship in the context of South Africa and Africa; Global trends in the field of entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship & nascent ventures.
