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Acting Vice-Principal: Teaching and Learning and Student Affairs

By Office of the Vice-Chancellor and Principal/Kantoor van die Visekanselier en Rektor

Posted on 30 July 2012

I am pleased to announce that Prof Johann Engelbrecht, Deputy Dean (Teaching and Learning and Community Engagement) in the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, has been seconded as Acting Vice-Principal: Teaching and Learning and Student Affairs with effect from 1 August 2012.

Prof Engelbrecht will act in this capacity pending the filling of the post vacated by Prof Nthabiseng Ogude, who takes up her appointment as Vice-Chancellor and Principal at the Tshwane University of Technology on 1 August. 
 
Prof Engelbrecht has been employed by the University of Pretoria for more than 40 years.  He was in the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics for many years before his appointment as Deputy Dean of the Faculty three years ago. He also serves as Director of the SA Mathematics Foundation on a part-time basis.

He is an active researcher in the field of mathematics education at tertiary level and is internationally recognised in this field. In the field of teaching and learning he received several awards, including the Claude Harris Leon Award Championship in Mathematics Teaching in 1998 and the South African Mathematical Society Award for the Advancement of Mathematics in 2005.
 
Prof CM de la Rey
Vice-Chancellor and Principal