Speaking at UCT on Sunday evening, the US president stressed the importance of Africans reaching their full potential.
On Sunday evening Barack Obama will speak at UCT, where the slain America icon laid down a stark challenge to opponents of apartheid.
The drug is effective against resistant parasites and shows no adverse side effects, researchers say.
South African university and scholarly presses have rallied together to promote books.
The University of Pretoria have finished the Varsity Cup at the top of the log with a four-try bonus point victory over the University of Cape Town.
This week UCT is celebrating Open Education Week — a global event aimed at creating awareness about the benefits of open sharing in education.
The increasing availability of high-quality free content on the internet should be encouraged.
UFS vice-chancellor Jonathan Jansen says students are graduating from weaker universities with the same lack of basic skills as when they left school.
In the second of his two-part article, Max price explains why UCT uses race in deciding who to admit.
In the first of a two-part article Max Price argues that universities have to consider students’ socioeconomic status.
A pilot project shows that reorganising staff and equipment can yield positive improvements.
The humanities in SA will not survive unless we recognise they have sometimes been harnessed to political agendas.
One size does not fit all when assisting students who are not ready for higher education, says <b>Stuart Saunders</b>.
South African scientists are fitting young penguins raised by humans with satellite transmitters so they can track them once released into the wild.
Researchers have found a way to measure the brain activity of cyclists at racing speed, breaking new ground in the study of how the brain works.
If people knew their status, new infections would decrease. The question is how to achieve this.
The University of Cape Town has considered all views on the Centre for African Studies fairly.
A collective of students who oppose the so-called disestablishment of the Centre for African Studies at UCT share their thoughts.
The public debate on African studies at UCT has been shockingly revealing.
The debate around the Centre for African Studies at UCT is really about the perceived need to institutionalise difference.
Blaming and shaming South Africa’s schoolteachers will do nothing to heal the country’s dysfunctional education system.
A comprehensive learning kit for physical science teachers and learners has been put together by Sasol.
Links between other SA universities and their counterparts in Israel are now likely to come under the scrutiny of boycott campaigners.
Centres for African studies are more imperative today than they have ever been, writes <b>Harry Garuba</b>.
The debate should focus on the nature and place of African studies in an African university, writes <b>Max Price</b>.
The mass roll-out of solar water heaters in low income communities needs to be accompanied by consultation.
The continent’s reliance on biomass has lethal results, report says.
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UCT’s professor Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan and a team of international researchers has identified a very special African dinosaur.
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Professor Michael Kyobe won an award at the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2009.
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Two emerging researchers at UCT are helping to keep the university on the world map.
UCT’s Drug Discovery Unit is breaking new ground in the using of plants to find novel compounds for antimalarial, and other drugs.
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A new method to recycle the salty water produced by coal mining could benefit both the mining industry and the environment.