UKZN Wins Gold Again

Sep 21, 2012

UKZN Wins Gold at Garden Show

UKZN has won Gold at the 2012 Garden Show. The university stand, organised by the College of Agriculture, Engineering and Science, won gold for the second time this year, having also won gold at the Royal Show. With this year's Garden Show theme being 'Garden meets Art', UKZN's stand created an interesting fusion of postgraduate art work, food art, and horticulture. Contestants came from as far afield as Pretoria and Cape Town. The stand was organised by College PRO Ms Swasti Maney, with input from the School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences and the School of Arts.

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Did you Know?

UKZN’s School of Information Systems and Technology was the first university in South Africa to introduce Podcasting as an educational tool.

UKZN was founded in 1910 – it is now 100 years old!

Spud author, John Van De Ruit, graduated from UKZN.

In 2010 there was a total of 41 626 students at UKZN, of this 32 791 were undergraduate & 8 835 were postgraduate.

UKZN has won the Daily News ‘Your choice award’ for the best University/College for the past seven years running.

Globally UKZN is one of only three South African universities in the top 500 Universities in the world.

UKZN is the third most productive University in terms of its research production.

The University employs over 5000 staff members.

UKZN has been home to many successful sportsman over the years, Tommy Bedford a former Springbok Rugby player, Shaun Pollock & Jonty Rhodes South African Cricketers.

Some high profile businessmen studied at UKZN, Sol Kerzner the developer of Lost city & more, Stephen Saad the CEO & founder of Aspen Pharmacare Holdings, Guy Brazier the regional leader of Deloitte & Alan Olivier the CEO of Grindrod Group.

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