For more than seven decades, the UCT Summer School has transformed the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) campus into an energetic meeting place filled with ideas, debate, and critical discourse. The January 2026 edition was no exception

UCT threw a double celebration that had alumni, students, and staff grinning from ear to ear over the weekend. Kopano Residence marked its 80th anniversary on Saturday night, while Leo Marquard Hall celebrated its golden jubilee the night

UCT maintained its place in the top 201–300 band in the 2025 Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities, released in August 2025. This marks another year as the highest-ranked university in South Africa and on the African continent.

Read the 100UP project report. This flagship initiative aims to expand access to higher education for learners from under-resourced communities across the Western Cape.

The National Benchmark Tests (NBT's), which have their home at UCT, play a pivotal role in advancing equity and excellence in South African higher education. They have an impact by providing fair access for all and offer tailored support.

The EthicsLab, a transformative initiative, bridging the humanities and health sciences, is changing the way we think about health, technology and moral responsibility. They urgently need funding to sustain and expand their work.

Advancing requisite disability access was under discussion as UCT, the FirstRand Foundation and other key stakeholders celebrated the Access4ALL programme. Several speakers said it was a critical component towards transformation.

4 UCT alumni responded to the alarming literacy levels in SA by creating a repository of children’s books in video book format, integrating written, illustrated, and audio components of a book to create engaging children’s stories.

UCT world-renowned tuberculosis researcher and senior academic, Emerita Professor Valerie Mizrahi, has been elected as an international honorary member of the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Dr Sianne Alves speaks passionately about the significant strides that the University of Cape (UCT) has made over the last decade to advance sexual and gender diversity and tackle gender-based violence (SGBV) on campus.

The UCT senior rugby team, Ikey Tigers, were crowned Varsity Cup winners after a dominant showing against their Cape rivals, Stellenbosch University’s Maties, in front of a sold-out Danie Craven stadium in Stellenbosch.

In a testament to its commitment to global health innovation, UCT's Holistic Drug Discovery & Development (H3D) Centre, has joined forces with LifeArc, a leading medical research charity, to launch the Centre for Translational AMR Research