UCT Faculty of Commerce :: Dean's Newsletter

Dear

When I became Dean of the Faculty of Commerce I decided I would like to keep you abreast of what’s happening at the University of Cape Town and to assure you that the investment which you made with us during your degree years was a sound one. I hope you have warm memories of your days on campus and trust my letters to you will be a useful way for you to keep in touch with your alma mater.

UCT was recently rated by the London Times Education Supplement in the top 200 universities worldwide (and the top in Africa) based on a range of factors including our research. One of my personal goals, as Dean, is to ensure that the Faculty focuses simultaneously on excellence and transformation. There is no point in having one without the other. It seems we are on the right track, because the Faculty of Commerce is increasingly leading the field in terms of excellent research, innovative teaching and progressive transformation.

Kind Regards,

Professor Melvin Ayogu, Dean of Faculty of Commerce

In Their Prime and Debt-free

New marketing research undertaken by UCT’s Unilever Institute (under the directorship of Professor John Simpson) has found a seam of gold in the bedrock of South African consumers.

The Day The Presidency Called

Professor Murray Leibbrandt, director of SALDRU (the South African Labour & Development Research Unit) at the School of Economics, had been lobbying for years for the country to start a nation-wide panel study to track the lives of the same group of people over time and cast light on social mobility.

Today UCT, Tomorrow Silicon Valley

Team Smile, a group of postgraduate students from the Department of Information Systems in the Faculty of Commerce achieved international recognition recently at the Microsoft Imagine Cup competition in Paris and will travel to Silicon Valley for intense business and technology training as part of their prize.

Accounting Department makes strides towards Transformation

The Accounting Department in the Faculty of Commerce has made significant strides towards achieving Transformation within the CA profession, if the latest results from the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) are anything to go by.

UCT Extends Footprint into Sub-Saharan Africa

Next month a small, dedicated unit from the Faculty of Commerce will join a project enabling African countries to leapfrog to world-class standards of data access.

You can visit the Faculty of Commerce website at: http://www.commerce.uct.ac.za
You can visit the University of Cape Town website at: http://www.uct.ac.za

Questions or comments? E-mail us at Carolyn.McGibbon@uct.ac.za