Vice chancellor Max Price said the university is obtaining a court order that would prevent students from engaging in violent protests.
There are a number of trends, attitudes and phenomena that we could quite happily do without this year, thank you very much, writes Gus Silber.
The university’s summer programme removes most of the barriers to education, offering transformative and affordable learning.
Transformation in higher education is vital, but a neutral arbiter is required to ensure fairness.
If trustees of the UCT fund have "blood on their hands" because of investment in Lonmin then so must trustees of all pension funds similarly invested.
If there was a list of Africa’s top universities, the University of Cape Town would rank number one, and South Africa would dominate the continent.
The challenge for South African universities is to extend their excellence beyond just infectious diseases, development studies and emerging markets.
Studying at UCT is expensive and many students struggle to pay the fees, though both the university and the state do try to support students.
The racial composition of lecturers and researchers at UCT is one of the most heated topics of debate when it comes to UCT’s transformation.
What should and shouldn’t be taught at our universities? The demands of students include calls for major changes to the content of courses at UCT.
Is the University of Cape Town (UCT) transforming? In this, the second article in our series, we look at how the student body is changing.
What does transformation mean? In the first series GroundUp provides key arguments on the main points of contention facing SA’s UCT.
In the wake of the #RhodesMustFall movement, the minister is pushing for "urgent" demographic changes at the country’s universities.
The University of Cape Town’s council ruled that the statue of Cecil John Rhodes, the centre of much debate over the last few weeks, must be removed.
South African student leaders explain the movement to wipe Eurocentricism off the face of their campuses.
Tearing down the contested statue of Cecil John Rhodes is too simple and obvious an answer to a complex problem, argues Verashni Pillay.
Don’t belittle the act of defacing symbols of the oppression students say is being upheld at universities, writes Victoria John.
Minister Nathi Mthethwa won’t support any violent removal of Cecil Rhodes’ statue from the UCT campus and urges an amicable resolution to the matter.
The campaign to remove the statue is gaining momentum, placing the ‘Eurocentrism’ of national university curricula under the spotlight.
Cecil John Rhodes is buried just outside Bulawayo, but a Zanu-PF official – inspired by UCT protesters – wants his remains sent to the UK.
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The best way to atone for his privilege is to use what he has left behind and direct it towards something that would make him turn in his grave.
It is not enough to say the curriculum is transformative, argues Adam Haupt.
Black students have taken to Twitter to voice their experiences of white privilege on the Rhodes University campus.
The Independent Media boss cites "jobs for pals" and lack of change in his resignation letter from various University of Cape Town bodies.
Yet it still claims it is working to change the racial demographic of its academic staff.
UCT says race will still be considered in a proposed student admissions policy but only as one of many other factors to determine disadvantage.
Activists says Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan misrepresented the true state of the country’s health in his budget speech.
SA’s only top-200 ranked university on the 2013 World University Rankings, UCT, has slipped down 13 places – leaving it at number 126 on the list.
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Politicians and industry experts say that partnerships between the public and private sectors may solve the doctor and nurse shortages in SA.
The truth is, the phenomenon is not the mystical and magical art many assume it is.