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Developing Critical Mass - Colleges and Municipalities
A group of 25 municipal officials and educators from Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges in the Western Cape attended the first Water Governance for Water Leaders learning program at Stellenbosch University (SU)...
Conference participants value feedback and engagement
Conferences such as the annual Education Students' Regional Research Conference (ESRRC) have great value and researchers, students and supervisors should be encouraged to attend. This is the opinion of Dr Audrey Wyngaard, who attended the...
Education student receives two Rector’s Awards
When MK Nompumza, a fourth-year Education student, registered at Stellenbosch University in 2014 he did so with the resolution that he will take full ownership of his journey at this institution. Growing up in the Eastern Cape, he came...
Students challenged by Leadership in Education short course
Informative, inspiring, relevant, challenging, empowering and thought-provoking. These were some of the check-out words used by course participants during the final session of the Leadership in Education short course hosted by the Faculty...
SU taking action to prevent and address gender-based violence
Gender-based violence is a significant yet preventable barrier to gender equality. In response to the rising threat of gender-based violence in the country as a whole, Stellenbosch University has taken its zero tolerance approach of the...
‘We need to get foundation right’ – panellists at Education Research conference
A panel discussion on “The practice of improvement: Getting from here to there" was one of the highlights of the annual Quantitative Applications in Education Research conference hosted by ReSEP, a research group on Social Economic...
Smartphones keep students from concentrating during lectures
Digital technologies, especially smartphones, have become such an integral part of our lives that it is difficult to picture life without them. Today, people spend over three hours on their phones every day. “While ever-smarter digital...
Genetic research can help improve medical treatment
New knowledge generated through genomic research (the study of an organism's genes and their functions) will continue to deliver effective drugs and bring hope for a cure of the treated conditions. This was one of the viewpoints of Prof...
Maties’ Simmonds shines on the cricket field
Steinhoff Maties Cricket player Kyle Simmonds is turning his dreams into reality one step at a time. Simmonds is a second-year student-athlete at Stellenbosch University and has established himself as one the brightest cricket stars in...
Essay competition offers students opportunity to broaden horizons
After failing to produce a paper for last year's Schroders essay competition organised by the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at Stellenbosch University (SU), Masters student in Economics Ruan Erasmus made amends by...