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Feb / March 2009 Lees Afrikaanse weergawe In this issue:
Reminder: Alumni Career Portal: The Alumni Career Portal on TuksAlumni's website assists professional alumni with extensive and high-level experience to better their career outlooks by facilitating job opportunities. The company that manages the portal on behalf of TuksAlumni has finalised its strategic alliance with the largest recruiter network in South Africa. This means that the portal now offers alumni an even wider scope of job opportunities around the country. Visit the portal online at http://www.trecruit.co.za/ui/candidateregistration/jbUPLanding.aspx. > Read more UP news >You can also alternate between the Afrikaans and English versions by clicking on the link with your language choice at the top of the page. 1. Welcoming a new generation of first-year students 2. Perserverance and commitment pay off for alumna Welheminah Mabogo There can be no great success without great commitment. This is the motto of alumna, Welheminah Mabogo, Media and Communications Officer at the University of Venda (Univen) and UP Master's graduate in Communication Management. Read more... 3. A bright year ahead for continuing education 4. AlumNews 5. Learn to innovate on the web 6. Mining engineering alumni meet at indaba TuksAlumni and the Department of Mining Engineering coordinated an event for UP alumni at the International Mining Indaba in Cape Town on 9 February 2009. Mr Wilco Uys, Vice-President: Operations, Energy Coal South Africa at BHP Billiton, was the speaker at the cocktail function. 7. RAG makes people open their hearts Pretoria's streets were once again filled with students participating in the Rag procession on Saturday, 31 January 2009. The theme for this year's event was The Bucket List (that is the things you would like to do or achieve before you die), and the winning float, the time machine, was built by Mopanie and Nerina residences. Read more... 8. News from the TuksAlumni clubs and interest groups 9. UP boasts record number of NRF-rated researchers 10. Upcoming TuksAlumni events 11. Leadership centre established at UP 12. Alumni association elects new leaders 13. Alumni involvement in the Stroke Support Group The Stroke Support Group, based in Pretoria, has an interesting connection with the University of Pretoria. It was established in 1983 when an occupational therapist, Pam Chasen, organised a group of people from all professions who were interested in strokes and some who had suffered from strokes themselves. Read more... 14. Dr Piet Botha is appointed as Deputy Chairperson of the University Council When one hears the name of Dr Piet Botha, one automatically makes an association with the University of Pretoria. This is hardly surprising, as he has been associated with UP since 1966: as a student, lecturer, alumnus, member of several of the committees of the University Council and as Chairperson of the TuksAlumni Board where he served 12 years: form 1996 until 2008. This makes him the longest-serving chairperson of this association. His most recent appointment is as Deputy Chairperson of the University Council. Read more... 15. New horizons: Resignation of Vice-Chancellor and PrincipalThe Vice-Chancellor and Principal of UP, Prof Calie Pistorius, would like to take this opportunity to inform alumni that he has accepted an offer to serve as the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull in the United Kingdom, as of 1 September 2009. Read more... > Visit http://www.be.up.co.za/news for information on Tuks' commercial contract research and consulting company, Business Enterprises at University of Pretoria (Pty) Ltd, and the business solutions they offer. > For information on Tuks' continuing education short courses, in-house courses and year programmes, visit Continuing Education at University of Pretoria (CE at UP) at http//:www.ceatup.com. > Unsubscribe or change your e-mail address by sending us your full initials, surname, date of birth and your e-mail address to alumni@up.ac.za. Alternatively complete the online Stay-In-Contact-Form. Should you have any query regarding the transmission of this newsletter, kindly contact us at the same e-mail address. |
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