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.

When generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools first surged into the mainstream, higher education institutions faced an urgent question: how do we regulate or contain them within existing academic structures?

Rebecca Monk, a third-year student at the University of Cape Town (UCT), is defying the odds by balancing a tight academic schedule in geology and oceanography with her passion for triathlons – with lots of success.

For services to children’s well-being and global public health, Professor Lucie Cluver, an honorary professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health at UCT, has been appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

The latest Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings show UCT ranked 150th globally, up from 171st in the last rankings. This move places UCT firmly within the top 3% of of 8 467 institutions evaluated and top in Africa again.

UCT student Ntokozo Makhaza has been selected to the Springboks team that will take on the Barbarians later this month.