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mLearn 2005 is jointly organised by the Tshwane University of Technology, the University of South Africa and the University of Pretoria.
Tshwane University of Technology 
The Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) is the largest residential higher education institution in the country with 63 000 students. Almost 14 000 of its full time students reside in the institution's 29 residences at the various campuses. There are 11 faculties in total, comprising of 135 academic departments and 5 717 permanently and temporary employed staff members.
TUT came into being following the merger of Technikon Pretoria, Technikon Northern Gauteng and Technikon North West in January 2004. TUT is also well positioned to serve the higher education needs of different communities in the country, with 9 well-equipped campuses (learning sites) in Pretoria West (Pretoria Campus), Soshanguve, Ga-Rankuwa, Witbank, Nelspruit, Polokwane, a Virtual Campus and two faculties, Natural Sciences and Arts, in the Pretoria city centre.
TUT is truly an institution in service of the Southern African community. The education offered at TUT, with its entrepreneurial focus, opens up unlimited opportunities for local entrepreneurs to join the institution in creating prosperity by stimulating innovation. This is facilitated by various incubators and technology stations.
TUT is also focused on addressing the needs of commerce and industry and, resulting from its applied research and innovation, in finding effective solutions to real problems of business in its communities.
The University of South Africa, or UNISA as it is commonly known, is a dedicated distance education institution and is one of South Africa’s three comprehensive universities. With more than 215 000 enrolled students and about 4 000 academic and administrative staff members, it is one of the world's mega universities and it offers certificate, diploma and degree courses up to doctoral level.
UNISA was founded in 1873 as the University of the Cape of Good Hope and was renamed the University of South Africa in 1916. Until 1946, when it pioneered distance education in South Africa, it acted mainly as an examining agency for other universities. The University has, over the past five years, undergone substantial change and transformation, the most dramatic of which was the merger with Technikon SA and the incorporation of the distance education component of Vista University (VUDEC) on 1 January 2004.
UNISA has two primary campuses in Gauteng - the Main Campus in the City of Tshwane (Pretoria) and the other in Florida (Johannesburg) and regional facilities and learning centres in the other eight provinces of South Africa.
UNISA has five Colleges: Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences; Economic and Management Sciences; Human Sciences; Law and Science, Engineering and Technology and is also the proud host of the Centre for African Renaissance Studies and the Graduate School of Business Leadership.
The Pretoria branch of the Transvaal University College (TUC) was forerunner of the University of Pretoria (UP). It commenced its activities in 1908 with a staff of four professors and three lecturers. Thirty-two students enrolled for courses at the first campus in Pretoria. The University of Pretoria, became a fully fledged university in 1930. The nick name Tuks, for the University of Pretoria, derives from the acronym for the College, namely TUC.
The University of Pretoria is a residential university in Southern Africa with more than 38 963 full-time on-campus students. Apart from that we have more than 16 210 off-campus distance learning students.
There are 9 faculties comprising of 140 academic departments and 2 114 permanently and temporary employed academic staff members. There are 65 research centres and institutes. The total staff compliment of UP is 4 316. UP offers 236 qualifications leading to 1 893 study programmes.
In striving to attain its vision of being locally relevant, globally competitive, comprehensive research institution, the University of Pretoria provides holistic, quality education by creating intellectually stimulating, flexible, life-long learning opportunities; employing innovative teaching methods; encouraging academically exciting and socially challenging research; fostering artistic genius and sporting prowess; wherever possible, through positive community interaction. It achieves its goals of establishing an internationally excellent and ethnically diverse community of scholars by attracting the best Afrikaans and English speaking students and staff of both genders from South Africa, the rest of Africa and abroad.