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Artist Reminds Learners: Look Back while Advancing Forward with Tech The Gordon’s Bay-based artist and children's book author and technical artwork illustrator Will Joubert Alves was the natural choice to create an artwork that would be...

Learners Scoop top prizes in UWC Science Art Competition Altogether, three winners announced in the University of the Western Cape (UWC) Science Learning Centre for Africa (SLCA) Art Competition hail from Langa and Khayelitsha respect...

UWC Science Learning Centre for Africa - Science in Schools Can Be More Relatable Including indigenous knowledge in the curriculum could make science more relatable to learners. This was the central theme during Science Week when the Science Learning Ce...

Ancestral Remains and decolonisation of museum spaces Museums are the link to the past. They help to address current issues and to plan for the future, and their exhibitions and collections serve as connections between the past, pr...

Bridging the divide between Indigenous Knowledge and Science Science educators often emphasise only the empirical and inferential nature of the natural sciences but fail to stress that science, as a human endeavour, is also creative. ...

National Science Week Celebration You are cordially invited to attend the UWC's SLCA National Science Week Celebration on Saturday, 5 August 2023. The theme for this year's celebration was inspired by th...

Notice: Tender opportunity UWC is inviting suitably qualified, competent and established Service Providers within the Northern Cape (Upington) Metropolitan area to submit proposals for the conversion of e...

UWC Maths Art Competition Open: The Role of Mathematics in Daily Living The University of the Western Cape (UWC) invite school learners to enter an art competition illustrating the role of mathematics in daily living. The competition is open to all ...

Professor Rouaan Maarman talks 2022 NSC results Professor Rouaan Maarman talks 2022 NSC results Ahead of the 2022 NSC results Professor Rouaan Maarman from the Faculty of Education at UWC spoke to a few news outlets arou...

UWC’s first Coding and Robotics Club is ready to inspire South Africa’s future roboteers Coding is coming closer to “tomorrow’s scientists” living in under-resourced communities near to the University of the Western Cape. The Science Learning Centr...

World Teacher Day 2021: Five Ways UWC Is Empowering Educators World Teacher Day is a chance to celebrate society’s educators, show our appreciation for all they do, and reflect on how we can make their jobs better - and that is somet...

UWC’s SLCA Brings State-Of-The-Art Science Labs to Knysna Schools UWC-SLCA – an outreach project of the School of Science and Mathematics Education (SSME) at the University of the Western Cape’s (UWC) Faculty of Education – w...

An Engaged University: Five Ways UWC Empowers Communities The University of the Western Cape (UWC) is one of South Africa’s foremost research, teaching and learning institutions, renowned all over the world for its contributions ...

Maths Making A Difference: UWC Promotes Successful Female Role Models In Mathematics To Cape Flats Learners “The laws of mathematics govern everything around us - from the way the stars shine to the amount of sugar we consume; from chemical reactions to the distance we travel to...

UWC Ranks In Top 200 Emerging Economies Universities - Times Higher Education Rankings 2019 Once again, the University of the Western Cape (UWC) has been declared one of the top 200 emerging economy universities, according to the Times Higher Education Emerging Economi...

UWC Opens Nine New Science Learning Centres To Develop The Science Stars of Tomorrow The University of the Western Cape’s Science Learning Centre for Africa (UWC-SLCA) has launched nine new state-of-the-art science learning centres (SLCs) to provide a crea...