Update on unfolding events at UCT
Released: 19:40, 12 October 2016
12 October 2016.
12 October 2016
Dear colleagues and students
The Executive and the Senior Leadership Group (SLG) today agreed to the suspension of classes for the rest of the week (Thursday, 13 and Friday, 14 October 2016). Staff and direct line managers are to agree on specific arrangements during this time.
Key and critical services will continue. Please see the UCT website for more detail on this.
I wish to share some of the thinking on the situation as we perceive it. The suspension of the academic programme has understandably caused much anxiety across the University of Cape Town. The executive and I fully understand the damaging impact of not completing the academic year – on students, parents, staff, society and the university itself. We appreciate, in addition, that for final year students and international students the consequences are even more severe. The economic consequences will also be far-reaching.