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UWC hosted the Early Career Research Day Programme at the Cape Town Science Centre, with newly appointed Science Manager at UWC, Nolusindiso Nkayi, as the programme director at the conference

Computers and the internet are part of our everyday lives - and they’re rapidly transforming higher education for the better. UWC is leading the way in the e-learning race..

UWC Ladies Football Club has been confirmed as the new champions of the Western Cape Sasol League – the senior women’s football league in South Africa – after they won their last two games recently

Archbishop Desmond Tutu turned 85 today – and to celebrate, UWC and the Desmond & Leah Tutu Foundation hosted a lecture on peace and tolerance by Advocate Hina Jilani of the Supreme Court of Pakistan

Physics student Kenzo Abrahams is investigating the conundrum of why nuclei follow a zig-zag of different shapes - as UWC’s very first recipient of a prestigious CERN PhD bursary

UWC Ladies Football Club have been crowned as the new champions of the Coca Cola Cup after they beat RV United 2-1 in a hotly contested final at Athlone Stadium on Saturday, 8 October 2016

UWC’s Entrepreneurship Expo in September 2016 afforded business owners from all over South Africa the chance to learn tips and tricks crucial to their success and to growing the economy

Poetry can entertain. It can move us. It can honour our heritage, and it can change the world. Just ask UWC’s own Diana Ferrus - administrator, writer, teacher and poet - whose poetry helped bring...

The twenty-first century is all about Big Science - powerful instruments, huge collaborations, teams uncovering the epic secrets of the Universe. And the Square Kilometre Array is one of the biggest...

How can we study the large scale structure of the Universe? What do we learn when we do that? UWC’s Prof Mario Santos tackled those questions in his lecture at the prestigious Kavli Prize Symposium...

Without investing in education, science and research, no country can develop successfully - as Honourable Professor Wilfried Lemke, United Nations Special Advisor on Sport for Development and Peace..

Are you trying to find your way in a building you’ve never visited before, or find out more about it? Scan Building App has you covered, courtesy of UWC students who took part in the Disruption48...

TB is one of Africa’s biggest killers - but UWC Alumnus Darlington Mapiye has devised a simple tag that could help us better understand how the disease is spread, and perhaps help curb it as well

The Centre for Performing Arts (CPA) is making good use of its new ensemble uniforms and French horn - thanks to the R65 000 contribution of UWC’s DVC: Academic Prof Vivienne Lawack in July 2016

The University of the Western Cape (UWC) is proud to celebrate its science researcher Usisipho Feleni who received the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women In Science Fellowship yesterday - her second...

The University of the Western Cape’s Access to Success campaign has exceeded all expectations, having raised over R1 million within only two weeks of its launch– and it’s still going strong

The University of the Western Cape (UWC) was abuzz at the weekend when athletes from neighbouring universities converged on campus for the inaugural Western Cape Inter-Varsity Sport Games

Responding to the student accommodation crisis, a Bellville businessman and his wife have donated a block of 30 flats to the University of the Western Cape, each one consisting of 2 bedrooms

The University of the Western Cape’s (UWC) Gender Equity Unit (GEU) hosted the 10th annual Edu-Drama anniversary event

The University of the Western Cape’s Community Engagement Unit handed over care packs to the senior citizens at Lilyhaven retirement home in Bonteheuwel on Friday, 9 September

The University of the Western Cape is flying the nuclear research flag for South Africa; it is the first African university to have an experiment approved to run at CERN, the holy grail for physical...

The University of the Western Cape (UWC) launched its inaugural UWC Alumni Phonathon initiative on 12 September 2016, and it has been a resounding success

The University of the Western Cape (UWC) recently received a cheque for R9 036 000 from the Manufacturing, Engineering and Related Services Sector Education and Training Authority (merSETA)

UWC Ladies football team continued this season’s strong competition run at the weekend when they beat neighbours UCT 3-1 to reach their second consecutive Varsity Women’s Football final