News & Events

Are protests affecting the mental health of students?

Watch Unisa’s Dr Monkie Moseki, a senior lecturer in the Department of Psychology of Education in the College of Education (CEDU), sharing her views on the student uprisings at universities around the country.. Read more

YALI and Trevor Noah Foundation celebrate new crop of Education Changemakers

The Young African Leaders Initiative Regional Leadership Center Southern Africa and the Trevor Noah Foundation honoured a diverse group of 44 Education Change Makers at a certification ceremony at Unisa recently.Read more

Making academic progress against all odds

A positive and extraordinarily resilient attitude is what helped Zenon Ndayisenga, a Unisa student and asylum seeker from Burundi, to survive against staggering odds. Read more

Talented charmer youngest ever finalist in Unisa music showcase

Only a few years into his musical journey, fifteen-year-old Hao-Wei Lin from Taiwan is one of the three candidates who were announced as finalists of the 14th Unisa International Piano Competition.Read more

Unisa International Piano Competition ends on a high note

The 14th Unisa International Piano Competition, which took place over the past two weeks, was a resounding success with exceptional performances in both the jazz and classical categories.Read more

What makes a true leader?

A member of Unisa's Regional Student Representative Council reflects on the qualities that set a true leader apart from those who are merely in leadership positions.Read more

But first, coffee...

Unisa has partnered with McDonald’s to make the graduation experience even more special.Read more

More than six thousand laptops distributed to students

Unisa’s highly successful rollout of laptops to qualifying students funded by NSFAS has passed the 90% completion mark.Read more

New course set to enhance first-year student experience

Taking some of the pain out of the challenging transition to a university environment is Unisa’s newly launched First-Year Experience Massive Open Online Course.Read more