Cape Peninsula University of Technology
Vice-Chancellor Chris Nhlapo | | |
Students | Over 33,569 (as of December 2013)[1] | |
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Location | , , South Africa | |
Campus | Five campuses | |
Colours | Blue and White | |
Website | www.cput.ac.za |
Cape Peninsula University of Technology (
History
It was formed in January 2005 from the merger of the Cape Technikon and Peninsula Technikon, following years of change in the higher education landscape of South Africa. In 1993, the Technikons Act was promulgated, which allowed
Prof. L Vuyisa Mazwi-Tanga was appointed as the first
Trevor Manuel was appointed chancellor of the university in April 2008.[2]
Foreign students (those from outside the SADC), are required to pay double the fees of local students.
Campuses
CPUT has five campuses:
- The Peninsula Technikon (33°55′56″S 18°38′25″E / 33.93222°S 18.64028°E)
- The District Six Campus, formerly the campus of the Cape Technikon in Zonnebloem (33°55′52″S 18°25′49″E / 33.93111°S 18.43028°E)
- The Mowbray Campus, formerly the Mowbray College of Education (33°56′47″S 18°28′18″E / 33.94639°S 18.47167°E)
- The Granger Bay Campus, housing the Cape Town Hotel School and the Survival Centre (33°53′58″S 18°24′41″E / 33.89944°S 18.41139°E)
- The Wellington Campus, formerly the Boland College of Education (33°38′12″S 19°0′36″E / 33.63667°S 19.01000°E)
The Cape Town Campus is built on a portion of District Six.
Co-operative education
The large majority of courses offered by CPUT incorporate in-service training; the training consists of an internship, usually six months to a year. The university's comprehensive co-operative education policy ensures the student is placed within a company approved by the university; this ensures that institutional academic learning is incorporated into work-based content.
Notable people
See also
- List of South African open access repositories
References
- ^ "CPUT Facts and Statistics page". CPUT Management Information Services. Archived from the original on 29 April 2015. Retrieved 11 December 2013.
- ^ https://www.cput.ac.za/newsroom/news/article/1878/ [bare URL]