Sharing knowledge in East Africa
Department of Business Management
Posted on 22 Apr 2013
Prof Ernie Heath from the Department of Business Management was recently invited by the Federation Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) and the African Council for Touring & Automobile (ACTA) to facilitate a two-day Learnership Programme in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
The key focus of the event was to strategically explore practical and innovative ways to develop and promote drive-tourism in East and Southern Africa. Countries that were represented, included Botswana, Kenya, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe.
Reaching for the stars
Prof Hannes Rautenbach
Posted on 22 Apr 2013
At a graduation ceremony on 17 April 2013, Dr Christina Botai, researcher at the Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory (HartRAO) received a doctoral degree with a thesis focused on space geodesy from the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences. This is only two years after her husband, Dr Joel Botai, had also received a doctoral degree in the same study field at the University of Pretoria (UP).
All expectations exceeded with the new master’s degree programme in internal auditing
Department of Auditing
Posted on 08 Apr 2013
The Department of Auditing, one of only five tertiary institutions in the world to be accredited at Centre of Excellence level in the Institute of Internal Auditors' Internal Audit Education Partnership (IAEP) programme, in association with Absa, launched a new master’s degree programme, the MPhil specialising in Internal Auditing. Nearly 200 students applied for the first intake in 2013, with 60 students currently enrolled – one of the largest master’s degree programmes at the University of Pretoria.
CMEG researchers head for the Namib Desert
Prof Don Cowan
Posted on 02 Apr 2013
In late April 2013, Don Cowan will lead the 20-strong Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics (CMEG) team, along with researchers from the University of the Western Cape (UWC), the University of Cape Town (UCT), Heriot-Watt University, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the Spanish National Research Council (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas – CSIC), on a week-long field research programme to the Gobabeb Research and Training Centre in the Namib Desert.
Building on the work done during two previous visits, the team will undertake the first comprehensive survey of Namib Desert microbiology, using the latest molecular phylogenetic measurements.
Tuks does it again in SAICA’s Initial Test of Competence 2013
Prof Johan Oberholster
Posted on 28 Mar 2013
The results of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants’ (SAICA’s) Initial Test of Competence (ITC) (formerly known as QE 1) were released on Wednesday, 27 March 2013, after being written in January 2013. A total of 3 117 candidates wrote the exam, of which 2 272 (73%) passed.
Tourism Management takes students “north-south-south” with a student mobility programme
Tourism Management Division
Posted on 05 Mar 2013
The Tourism Management Division has a North-South-South Student Mobility Programme and Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the University of Oulu in Finland.
The MoU was signed in 2005 and focuses on collaboration in the fields of tourism management and environmental studies. The collaboration has resulted in research publications, co-edited books and student exchange programmes.
National Department of Tourism makes bursaries available for postgraduate studies in Tourism Management
Tourism Management Division
Posted on 05 Mar 2013
The Memorandum of Understanding signed between the National Department of Tourism (NDT) and the University of Pretoria in 2012, establish a formal basis of cooperation in support of tourism research and skills development activities between the NDT and UP. The NDT has made funds available to provide financial assistance to a number of postgraduate students at honours, master’s and doctoral level in pursuing tourism-related research studies commissioned by the NDT.
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