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In 2018, the University of Edinburgh was a signatory to the £1.3 billion Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region Deal, in partnership with the UK and Scottish governments, six local authorities and all universities and colleges in the region. [102]
In 2004 South Africa started reforming its public higher education system, [2] merging and incorporating small public universities into larger institutions, and renaming all higher education institutions "university" (previously there had been several types of higher education institution).
Created in 1998 this was one of the first of its kind in the world and has since provided a model for other medical schools to follow. In 2005 The University of Edinburgh was awarded a Queen's Anniversary Prize for EEMeC and The Virtual Hospital Online. In August 2017, EEMeC was retired in favour of LEARN, the University of Edinburgh's VLE.
Principals of the University of Edinburgh. Robert Rollock Sir David Brewster Sir Edward Appleton. 1586 Robert Rollock (Regent from 1583 to 1586) 1599 Henry Charteris; 1620 Patrick Sands; 1622 Robert Boyd; 1623 John Adamson (died in office in 1652 but the original successor, William Colvill, was unable to take the position until 1662) 1653 ...
The following are the South African universities with the largest financial endowments, expressed in South African Rands at fair value. A financial endowment is a transfer of money and/or property donated to an institution and the total value of an institution's investments is often referred to as the institution's endowment.
University 2024 [59] 1: University of Cape Town: 116 2 University of Witwatersrand 264 3 Stellenbosch University 311 4 University of Johannesburg 357 5 University of Kwazulu Natal 401 6 University of Pretoria 439 7 North West University 540 8 University of the Western Cape 726 9 University of South Africa 861 10 University of the Free State 912 11
Patrick Duncan, 6th governor-general of the Union of South Africa, South African Minister for the Interior, Education and Public Health (1921–1924) Kesaveloo Goonam, South African doctor, Indian nationalist and anti-apartheid activist; Alex Ibru, Nigerian Minister of Internal Affairs (1993–1995) Omar Ali Juma, former vice-president of Tanzania
14 June – Cyril Ramaphosa is re-elected as President of South Africa for a second term. [21] 19 June – Cyril Ramaphosa is sworn in for a second term as President of South Africa. [22] 20 June – Democratic Alliance MP Renaldo Gouws is suspended after old videos of him making derogatory and inciteful remarks against black people emerge ...