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The University of Pretoria ( Afrikaans: Universiteit van Pretoria, Northern Sotho: Yunibesithi ya Pretoria) is a multi-campus public research university [11] [12] in Pretoria, the administrative and de facto capital of South Africa. [13] The university was established in 1908 as the Pretoria campus of the Johannesburg -based Transvaal ...
University of Pretoria Library. University of Pretoria Library Services serves the students, faculty and researchers of the University of Pretoria. The library of the University of Pretoria is regarded as one of the top university libraries in South Africa. It provides a comprehensive information service for the university's approximately 38 ...
History. The proposal for a university for the capital, first mooted in the Volksraad in 1889, was interrupted by the outbreak of the Anglo Boer War in 1899. In 1902 after the signing of the Peace of Vereeniging, the Normal College for teacher training was established in Groenkloof, Pretoria and in 1904 the Transvaal Technical Institute, with emphasis on mining education, opened in Johannesburg.
The Chancellor is the titular head of the university. Former and current persons who have fulfilled the position are: [6] Justice Tielman Roos, Supreme Court of Appeal and South African Minister of Justice: 1930 – 1932 [7] Rev Adriaan Louw: 1933 – 1934. Dr Hendrik van der Bijl, engineer and industrialist, founding chairman of Eskom and ...
The Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) affiliated with the University of Pretoria, is a business school situated in Illovo, Johannesburg, South Africa. The institution has received accreditation from the Council on Higher Education (CHE) in South Africa and the Association of MBAs (AMBA) internationally. [1]
www .up .ac .za /faculty-of-veterinary-science. The Faculty of Veterinary Science is a faculty of the University of Pretoria. Founded in 1920, it is the second oldest veterinary faculty in Africa. [4] With the exception of the faculties in Khartoum (Sudan, 1938), and Cairo (Egypt, 1946), all the other African faculties were established after 1960.
The University of Pretoria Faculty of Education was incorporated and merged with the University of Pretoria in 1908. The Faculty has five departments, four centres and units and collaborates with more than seven international bodies. [4] The Faculty offers the undergraduate BEd degrees, postgraduate degrees as well as several continuing ...
University of Pretoria Special Collections. Coordinates: 25°45′18.09″S 28°13′50.27″E. Special Collections is a self-contained unit in the University of Pretoria Library Services. The mission of the Special Collections [1] unit is to play a stewardship role in the preservation and proper archiving of its information resources and to ...