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First DCom in Communication Management awarded
Communication Management Division
Posted on 07 Sep 2012

Dr Corné Meintjes was the first graduate of a DCom degree in communication management obtained from the Division of Communication Management in the Department of Business Management. The degree was awarded to her during the Spring 2012 graduation ceremony.

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Commemorating the Aula
UP Archives/UP Argiewe
Posted on 27 Aug 2012

In the early days of the Transvaal University College there was not a hall for larger student meetings on the Hatfield campus. For that reason graduation ceremonies, for example, took place in the Pretoria City Hall, with the Graduation Ball being held at a hotel in the city centre.

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Honorary Doctorate – Sir TO Conran
Raymund Konigk
Posted on 07 Sep 2012

The Programme for Interior Architecture, Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria conferred the degree, Doctor of Architecture (honoris causa), on Sir Terence Orby Conran FCSD, for his influence on the discipline of Interior Design. Sir Terence was meant to receive his honorary doctorate at the April 2012 graduation ceremony, but due to ill health could not travel to accept his degree. He received his degree at an alumni function in Oxford that took place on 21 August.

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Spring Graduation Ceremonies at the University of Pretoria
Sanku Tsunke
Posted on 07 Sep 2012

Ms Khatija Ahmed Surty, wife of Enver Surty, Deputy Minister of Basic Education, was among the graduates at the University of Pretoria’s Spring Graduation ceremonies. An honorary doctorate was also awarded to Carol Diane Lee, a prominent educationist from the United States of America, by Prof Wiseman Nkuhlu, Chancellor of the University of Pretoria.

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Two lecturers in the Department of Visual Arts receive NRF ratings
Visual Arts
Posted on 06 Sep 2012

Proff Elfriede Dreyer and Amanda du Preez were accorded NRF ratings in the latest annual round of rating allocations, with effect from 1 January 2013. This brings the total number of NRF ratings in the Department to four (with Proff Jeanne van Eeden and Lize Kriel).

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UP Visual Arts student exhibits in New York
Visual Arts
Posted on 06 Sep 2012

Jayna Mistry, a fourth-year student in the Department of Visual Arts, is participating in an exhibition entitled “Her Stories: Fifteen Years of the South Asian Women's Creative Collective”. The exhibition, currently on display at the Queens Museum of Art, was favourably reviewed in the New York Times.

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New programme to develop reporting skills launched at the University of Pretoria
Sanku Tsunke
Posted on 04 Sep 2012

The Albert Luthuli Centre for Responsible Leadership at the University of Pretoria launched the Postgraduate Diploma in Integrated Reporting today. The Diploma is the first (globally) formal academic programme in integrated reporting. The launch of the Diploma took place at the PwC Business School in Johannesburg, coinciding with the release of a Corporate Reporting Survey conducted by PwC.

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The launch of the Russell Loubser JSE Prize and the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences Dean’s List awards function
Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences
Posted on 03 Sep 2012

The Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Pretoria, Prof Cheryl de la Rey and the Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, Prof Elsabé Loots, hosted a function to launch the Russell Loubser JSE Prize.

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Nicci Hattingh, alumna and part-time Information Design lecturer, awarded at the International PromaxBDA Awards 2012
Visual Arts
Posted on 03 Sep 2012

Nicci Hattingh, an Information Design graduate and part-time Information Design lecturer at the University of Pretoria’s Visual Arts Department, has fared exceptionally well at the International PromaxBDA Awards 2012, held in Los Angeles in June this year.

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University of Pretoria and the Pan African Parliament sign MOU for a better African Union
Erika de Wet
Posted on 31 Aug 2012

On 28 August 2012, the Pan African Parliament (PAP) and the University of Pretoria (UP), through the Faculty of Law’s Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa (ICLA), concluded a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to build the capacity of the PAP in the areas of development and harmonisation of laws in line with African Union (AU) instruments.

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