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The Libraries' Digital Library Services department is involved in a retrospective digitisation project of all UCT theses. The aim is that all UCT's Master's and Doctoral theses, dating back to 1929, will be available via OpenUCT. ZivaHub is the University of Cape Town's institutional open access data repository. It houses scholarly outputs such ...
UCT held its first graduation on 7 September 2023 in ceremony at the Nobel Peace Hall (Portuguese: Salão Nobel da Paz) in its Balide campus. [11] The university awarded degrees to 31 graduates from the faculties of education and social sciences, including students who previously attended the stand-alone Instituto de Ciências Religiosas.
The University of Cape Town was founded at a meeting in the Groote Kerk in 1829 as the South African College, a high school for young men. The college had a small tertiary-education facility, introduced in 1874 [9] that grew substantially after 1880, when the discovery of gold and diamonds in the north – and the resulting demand for skills in mining – gave it the financial boost it needed ...
Entrance to Jagger Library with floral decorations in 1947. By 1980, the library was part of an eight-library complex at the University of Cape Town, and was the headquarters of the university's library service. It then contained 518,000 of the 741,000 volumes available in the library network, and could house 1280 readers in its reading rooms. [2]
Thabo Makgoba, Archbishop of Cape Town, PhD from the University of Cape Town [2] Steven Markovitz , award-winning film and television producer Ebrahim Patel , held positions as South African Minister of Trade and Industry and as the Minister of Economic Development , on the University Council of UCT; former staffer in the Southern African ...
A health or medical library is designed to assist physicians, health professionals, students, patients, consumers, medical researchers, and information specialists in finding health and scientific information to improve, update, assess, or evaluate health care.
SHAWCO, the Students' Health and Welfare Centre's Organization, is a student-run NGO based at the University of Cape Town that seeks to improve the quality of life for individuals in developing communities within the Cape Metropolitan area.
The Health Sciences Library offers access to more than 6200 Health Science eJournals, 10,000 eBooks and more than 107,000 print books. [6] They also offer access to more than 91 different databases, such as Clinical Key, which provides access to more than 1,500 health sciences books and journals, plus more than 13,000 medical and surgical videos.