Education




Primary educationedit

  • Arcadia Primary School
  • Brooklyn Primary School
  • Capital Park Primary School
  • Crawford College
  • Eduplex Primary School
  • Glenstantia Primary School
  • Hamilton Primary School
  • La Montagne Primary School
  • Laerskool Anton van Wouw
  • Laerskool Boerefort
  • Laerskool Constantiapark
  • Laerskool Danie Malan
  • Laerskool Elarduspark
  • Laerskool Garsfontein
  • Laerskool Lynnwood
  • Laerskool Magalieskruin
  • Laerskool Menlopark
  • Laerskool Meyerspark
  • Laerskool Monumentpark
  • Laerskool Queenswood
  • Laerskool Pretoria-Oos
  • Laerskool Skuilkrans
  • Laerskool Tygerpoort
  • Laerskool Wonderboom
  • Laerskool Wonderboom-Suid
  • Lynnwood Ridge Primary School
  • Maragon Olympus
  • Nantes Primary School
  • Northridge Primary School
  • Prestige College
  • Pretoria Preparatory School
  • Rietondale Primary School
  • Robert Ricks Primary School
  • St. Mary's Diocesan School for Girls
  • St. Paulus Primary School
  • Stratford Preparatory School
  • Sunnyside Primary School
  • Tyger Valley College
  • Waterkloof House Preparatory School
  • Waterkloof Primary School
  • Wespark Primary School
  • Woodhill College

Secondary educationedit

International schoolsedit

Schools for foreign students:

  • Advanced College Brooklyn
  • British International College
  • Courtney House International College
  • Dansa International College
  • École Miriam Makeba (French school)
  • Deutsche Schule Pretoria (German school)
  • Russian Embassy School in Pretoria
  • AISJ-Pretoria
  • North American International School
  • Star College Pretoria
  • Silver Oaks International School

Tertiary educationedit

Pretoria is one of South Africa's leading academic cities and is home to both the largest residential university in South Africa, largest distance education university in South Africa and a research intensive university.citation needed The three Universities in the city in order of the year founded are as follows:

University of South Africaedit

The University of South Africa (commonly referred to as Unisa), founded in 1873 as the University of the Cape of Good Hope, is the largest university on the African continent and attracts a third of all higher education students in South Africa. It spent most of its early history as an examining agency for Oxford and Cambridge universities and as an incubator from which most other universities in South Africa are descended. In 1946 it was given a new role as a distance education university and in 2012 it had a student headcount of over 300,000 students, including African and international students in 130 countries worldwide, making it one of the world's mega universities. Unisa is a dedicated open distance education institution and offers both vocational and academic programmes.

University of Pretoriaedit

The University of Pretoria (commonly referred to as UP, Tuks, or Tukkies) is a multi campus public research university. The university was established in 1908 as the Pretoria campus of the Johannesburg based Transvaal University College and is the fourth South African institution in continuous operation to be awarded university status. Established in 1920, the University of Pretoria Faculty of Veterinary Science is the second oldest veterinary school in Africa and the only veterinary school in South Africa. In 1949 the university launched the first MBA programme outside of North America. Since 1997, the university has produced more research outputs every year than any other institution of higher learning in South Africa, as measured by the Department of Education's accreditation benchmark.

Tshwane University of Technologyedit

The Tshwane University of Technology (commonly referred to as TUT) is a higher education institution, offering vocational oriented diplomas and degrees, and came into being through a merger of Technikon Northern Gauteng, Technikon North-West and Technikon Pretoria. TUT caters for approximately 60,000 students and it has become the largest residential higher education institution in South Africa.

CSIRedit

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is South Africa's central scientific research and development organisation. It was established by an act of parliament in 1945 and is situated on its own campus in the city. It is the largest research and development organisation in Africa and accounts for about 10% of the entire African R&D budget. It has a staff of approximately 3,000 technical and scientific researchers, often working in multi-disciplinary teams. In 2002, Dr. Sibusiso Sibisi was appointed as the president and CEO of the CSIR.

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