VC virtual alumni event: ‘Renaming places and spaces at UCT’

Join UCT Vice-Chancellor, Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng and members of the UCT executive leadership team in a conversation on the ‘Renaming places and spaces at UCT’. Wednesday 7th July 16h00 (GMT) on Microsoft Teams. Please...

Read more June 30, 2021 at 3:24 pm Amelia Tindale

Renaming of Smuts Hall

Dear colleagues, students and alumni The University of Cape Town (UCT) Council took a number of key decisions at its meeting held on Saturday, 19 June 2021. We will as usual soon write to the UCT...

Read more June 22, 2021 at 10:27 am Amelia Tindale

UCT top in Africa in latest world rankings

The University of Cape Town (UCT) has been ranked 226th in the world by the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings 2022. This position puts UCT among the top 18% of universities worldwide and is...

Read more June 15, 2021 at 1:43 pm Amelia Tindale

Groote Schuur Hospital performs South Africa’s first bowel enteroscopy

A team of academics at the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Division of Medical Gastroenterology have performed South Africa’s first successful bowel enteroscopy (endoscopy of the small bowel). The cutting-edge procedure was carried out at Groote...

Read more June 15, 2021 at 1:35 pm Amelia Tindale