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The University of Johannesburg, colloquially known as UJ, is a public university located in Johannesburg, South Africa.The University of Johannesburg was established on 1 January 2005 as the result of a merger between the Rand Afrikaans University (RAU), the Technikon Witwatersrand (TWR) and the Soweto and East Rand campuses of Vista University. [12]
On 1 March 1922, the University College, Johannesburg, was finally granted full university status after being incorporated as the University of the Witwatersrand. The Johannesburg municipality donated a site in Milner Park, north-west of Braamfontein, to the new institution as its campus and construction began the same year, on 4 October.
It has 6 campuses in South Africa and is owned by Educor (the Education Investment Corporation Limited) group. [8] [7] [10] [2] [3] [4] Damelin offers degrees, diplomas and other higher qualifications, but is considered a college instead of a university due to the regulations for tertiary institutions in South Africa. [11]
Johannesburg also has one of several film schools in the country, one of which has won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Student Film in 2006. [97] The South African School of Motion Picture and Live Performance, or AFDA for short, is situated in Auckland Park. Johannesburg also has three teacher-training colleges and a technical college.
University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park Campus. Kingsway Campus Auckland Park, also known as APK, is the largest and most populated of the four campuses of the University of Johannesburg. [1] [2] It is also the seat of the administration and governance body of the university. The campus was formerly the only educational campus of the Rand ...
The GCRO is a collaboration between the Universities of Johannesburg and Witwatersrand, the city of Johannesburg, Gauteng Provincial Government, and SALGA-Gauteng. The GCRO's purpose is to collect information and create a database on the Gauteng City Region to provide to government, lawmakers and civil society an informed understanding of the ...
Now part of University of Johannesburg: Technikon SA 1 January 2004 [32] Now part of University of South Africa: Transvaal University College: Johannesburg, Pretoria: 1906 1910/1930 Predecessor of the University of Pretoria and the University of the Witwatersrand. The University of the Witwatersrand was named the Transvaal University College ...
The National Union of Educators (NUE) was a trade union representing education workers in South Africa. The union was founded in 1997, when the South African Teachers' Association merged with the Transvaal Teachers' Association and the Transvaal Association of Teachers. Its initial membership was of white and "coloured" workers, but it accepted ...