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Cape Peninsula University of Technology (Afrikaans: Kaapse Skiereiland Universiteit van Tegnologie) is a university in Cape Town, South Africa. It is the only university of technology in the Western Cape province, and is also the largest university in the province, with over 32,000 students. It was formed by merging the Cape Technikon and ...
The American International School of Cape Town (AISCT) is a private, non-profit, co-educational institution founded in 1997. The school educates 500 students from 50 countries, ranging in age between 2 and 18 years and instructed by teachers from around the world.
Even before the First World War, the German government began to provide financial aid. After the defeat in the war and the loss of the German colonies, the German School Association Cape Town became the sponsor of the school in 1930. In 1961 the name was changed to Deutsche Schule Kapstadt (DSK).
Walter Sisulu University: Peninsula Technikon: 1962-2005 → technikon, 1979 [1] Cape Peninsula University of Technology: Port Elizabeth Technikon (PE Technikon) 1882–2005 → technikon, 1979: Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University: Technikon Pretoria: 1968–2004 → technikon, 1979: Tshwane University of Technology: Technikon Natal: 1907 ...
Now part of North-West University: University of the Cape of Good Hope: Cape Town: 1873 1916 Renamed University of South Africa: Cape Technikon: Now part of Cape Peninsula University of Technology: University of Durban-Westville: Westville: 1972 1 January 2004 [11] Now part of University of KwaZulu-Natal: Eastern Cape Technikon: 1994 2005
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 Rhodes University 953 12
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 ...
Founded in 1873 as the University of the Cape of Good Hope, the University of South Africa (or Unisa as it is commonly known) spent most of its early history as an examining agency for Oxford and Cambridge universities and as an incubator from which most other universities in South Africa are descended.