CPUT is situated within the Cape Town cosmopolitan hive. With campuses in Bellville, Cape Town and Wellington, CPUT not only provides a diverse social life but easy access and quality education.

About the University

CPUT is situated within the Cape Town cosmopolitan hive. With campuses in Bellville, Cape Town and Wellington, CPUT not only provides a diverse social life but easy access and quality education.

Cape Technikon and Peninsula Technikon merged in 2006 and became established as Cape Peninsula University of Technology. The institution is now referred to as CPUT and envisions to be the heart of technology, education and innovation in Africa.

The institution boasts modern facilities with innovative teaching and learning approaches making studying more enjoyable. CPUT is a leading university of technology in the Western Cape and offers a variety of career-focused undergraduate and postgraduate courses across a broad spectrum of subjects.

The institution has six faculties and five research centres:

• Applied Science


• Business


• Design and Informatics


• Education and Social Sciences


• Engineering


• Health and Wellness Sciences


• Centre for Instrumentation Research (CIR)


• e-Innovation Academy (e-IA)


• Fundani - Teaching and Learning


• Unit of Lifelong Learning


• Water and Sanitation Services Unit (Project Web Site)

Academic Facilities

Libraries:

The library facilities are extensive at CPUT and are made more so with its very close links to the other three tertiary education institutions in the Western Cape: University of Cape Town , Stellenbosch University and University of the Western Cape.

Learning:

CPUT has an electronic system that connects students with their lecturers and courses through their workstation. Their e-Learning  system is an effective way for students to stay up to date with their courses and course materials.

Research:

Becoming a university of technology encompasses measuring research performance:

• the establishment of research niche areas and research units


• the number of peer-reviewed journal publications and conference papers produced by staff and postgraduate students


• the throughput and quality of postgraduate students


• income generated through scholarly grants and contract funding


• the registration of intellectual property in the form of patents


• and the recognition of the research standing of staff, both by peers and other higher education institutions

 

Student Life

Students Organisations and Groups:

• CPUT Choir


• Green Team (environmental awareness)


• CPUT Students in Free Enterprise


• Agrifood Technology Campaign


• Indigenous Knowledge Systems group


• Debating Society


• Environmental Resource Centre


• Drama Society

 

Student Support

Student Counselling:

The service is aimed at facilitating individuals' personal development and wellness, enabling students to realize their full potential and ultimately achieve academic and career success. Students and prospective students are counselled individually or in small groups. The main focus of the service is to assist students in making life transitions and adapting to the social and academic demands of university life. Student counselling offers: career counselling; learning skills counselling; personal and emotional counselling, life-skills workshops and crisis counselling.

Potentially the Counselling service is available to the whole university, but with the limited resources of the Unit it would not be possible to provide a service to all the students at the same level of intensity. For this reason the policy of the Unit is to provide counselling interventions at different levels of intensity as needed by particular groups of students.

HIV/AIDS Living with Hope:

The living with hope programme includes individual counselling around the immediate issues after diagnosis, such as:

• Coping with loss and grief


• Partner notification and disclosure


• Safer sex practices


• Infection control


• Dealing with specific concerns of the student


• Provide primary health care e.g. monthly check-ups and vitamin supplies


• Referral to relevant health authorities and research units to assess the possibility of the students to start anti-retroviral drugs, if they should meet trial requirements.


• Provide and check social and emotional support

Student Health Service

The Health Clinic provides a professional health service to students and staff on campus. All ailments that do not require surgical or therapeutic interventions are treated at the Clinic by full-time nursing and medical staff. Professional primary health care such as family planning, post-coital contraception, pap-smear, vaccinations and eye screening are also provided.

The Health Clinic functions as part of the Counseling and Health Department within the Division of Student Affairs

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