University of Cape Town

The Interim Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town, Emeritus Professor Daya Reddy, hosted a Vice-Chancellor’s Open Lecture with guest speaker Professor Edvard Moser.

The Acting Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town, Professor Sue Harrison, hosted a Vice-Chancellor’s Open Lecture with guest speaker Professor Evelyn Welch.

UCT’s Department of Student Affairs (DSA) plans to empower, uplift and unleash human potential in university staff by helping those who don’t hold a matric certificate to obtain one.

The recent ISS Indaba explored ideas to build and maintain a humanising, enabling and integrated student experience at every stage of their UCT journey.

UCT applauds its young affiliates who appear on the ‘M&G’s’ Top 200 Young South Africans list for 2023.

UCT is in the top 200 universities worldwide in the 2023 Times Higher Education Impact Rankings, with four areas ranked in the top 100.

UCT leaps up in Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings 2024 and remains the best university in Africa.

Professor Sir Angus Deaton will deliver the first annual Francis Wilson Memorial Lecture, titled “The politics of numbers: economists confront poverty and inequality”. Join us online at 18:00 SAST on Monday, 3 July 2023.

UCT is one of the best institutions in the world for development studies, according to the latest subject rankings from Quacquarelli Symonds.