New Director for the BSc Four Year Programme appointed
Martie Maree
Posted on 04 Feb 2011
Dr Quenton Kritzinger has recently been appointed as the new Director of the BSc Four Year Programme in the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences. The Four Year Programme is situated on the University's Mamelodi Campus.
New call centre for Distance Education
Marelize Naude
Posted on 03 Feb 2011
A state of the art call centre for Distance Education has been operational since 28 January 2011. This call centre, boasting 17 incoming lines, will greatly enhance the capacity of handling the big volumes of telephonic enquiries. The number to call is +27 (0)12 420 5613.
Hein Willemse speaks at CASAS and the Suidoosterfees
Posted on 03 Feb 2011
Hein Willemse, professor in the Department of Afrikaans, took part in public intellectual debates about pertinent issues in Afrikaans twice in the past week.
New Chair of Faculty Research Committee
Posted on 03 Feb 2011
Prof Jan Nieuwenhuis of the Department of Education Management and Policy Studies will serve as the new Chair of the Research committee of the Faculty of Education. Prof Nieuwenhuis is a highly respected researcher with decades of experience in Education. He is author and editor of two academic books, more than 40 technical research reports and numerous articles and book chapters. He has served as consultant to the UNESCO Expert Consultative group on Basic Education, been awarded the Senior Research Medal Extraordinaire by the Education Association of South Africa (EASA) and he was a member of the Reference Group of the South African Council of Educators and the Department of Education on Teacher Professional Development (2007-2010). He's also consultant to the Council on Higher Education regarding the accreditation of higher education programmes.
UP works with Government on water for rural schools
Hannes Rautenbach
Posted on 02 Feb 2011
The UP Water Institute, through the Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology (GGM), has started to work with the Department of Water and Environmental Affairs and the South African Weather Service (SAWS) on fog water collection in high topography rural areas.
TuksRugby : New look team to face Madibaz
Posted on 02 Feb 2011
The Tuks 1 team to take on the Madibaz (NMMU) on Monday (7 February) in Port Elizabeth in the opening round of the 2011 FNB Varsity Cup Competition was announced on Wednesday.
LLM (Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa)
Yolanda Booyzen
Posted on 02 Feb 2011
In 2011, the Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, once again hosts 30 of Africa's brightest legal minds. These 30 students, from 17 countries across the continent, study towards the LLM (Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa) degree. They spend the first semester of six months at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, before embarking on a second semester at one of the twelve partner universities of the programme across the continent.
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