Tag: uct

ALS ice bucket challenge at UWC Physiotherapy

Aug 28, 2014

in Physiotherapy, Students

ALS, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, ice bucket challenge, stellenbosch, uct, university of cape town, uwc

Earlier today the second year physiotherapy students at UWC completed the ALS ice bucket challenge as a way to raise awareness and a small charitable donation for ALS research. As part of the process, they challenged the students from UCT and Stellenbosch to take up their buckets as well. Well done guys, we’re proud of…
Digital University Symposium at UWC

Oct 30, 2013

in Curriculum, Technology

Cape Peninsula University of Technology, cput, digital university, institutional repository, open access, open scholarship, uct, university of cape town, University of Stellenbosch, university of the western cape, us, uwc

Earlier today I was lucky enough to be able to attend a symposium on “the digital university” as part of a celebration of 20 years of the Cape Higher Education Consortium (CHEC). The event was hosted by the University of the Western Cape and included presentations from representatives at all four member institutions. Unfortunately I…
CHEC course: teaching and learning (day 3)

Aug 18, 2011

in Education, Ethics, Learning, Students, Workshop

advantage, cape higher education consortium, chec, disadvantage, diversity, gender, jeff jawitz, learning, race, racism, south africa, teaching, teaching and learning, uct, university of cape town

Yesterday’s CHEC session was presented by Jeff Jawitz from UCT, who looked at tools for addressing diversity in the South African university classroom. I’ve seen Jeff present before at conferences and he’s got a really relaxed way of introducing and working with often highly controversial topics, like race and gender. I was especially excited to…

Tag: uct

ALS ice bucket challenge at UWC Physiotherapy

Digital University Symposium at UWC

CHEC course: teaching and learning (day 3)