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Bumper graduation week for SU as it confers record number of qualifications
Stellenbosch University is looking forward to a bumper graduation week as it prepares to confer 5 865 qualifications – the highest number of December graduations on record – across 13 ceremonies. The ceremonies take place from Monday 9...
Western Cape’s top teacher graduates with master’s from SU
The Western Cape's top teacher, Llewellyn van der Ross, never planned on a career in education. “I didn't choose teaching, teaching chose me," he says of the “epiphany" he had in Grade 12 that saw him study education and return to his...
Resilience key to improving your circumstances
When meeting Dumisani Hompashe and listening to his story, the word “resilience" automatically comes to mind. Because resilience is the silver thread running through his entire life, from his childhood to his part-time PhD studies in...
Record number of qualifications in 2020 despite COVID-19 challenges
Stellenbosch University (SU) has broken its own record for the most qualifications awarded at the institution in an academic year. The latest figures show that the University conferred 9 234 degrees, certificates and diplomas in 2020 – up...
SU’s December hybrid graduations celebrate academic success despite tough 2021
Stellenbosch University (SU) will confer 5 629 qualifications at its hybrid graduation ceremonies from 13–16 December 2021, including a record number of 677 master's degrees, the most in 10 years. A record number of 500 undergraduate...
March graduation ceremonies
Stellenbosch University (SU) will award 3055 qualifications at its March graduation series, which will take place from Monday 27 March to Friday 31 March 2023. The March graduation brings to close the University’s 2022 graduation cycle...
Rising basketball star graduates after giving his studies the full-court press
Overcoming challenges on the basketball court has helped rising sports star Lutho Skweyiya score a slam dunk in the academic arena as well. The Maties Sportsman of the Year for 2023 graduated from Stellenbosch University (SU) on 14 December...
Mom gets to cap son on graduation day
The ecstatic celebrations of graduation day sometimes obscure the harrowing struggles students and their families endure to make it to the finishing line. For Kayden Carelse, receiving an honours degree in logistics on 14 December was an...
Engineering graduate plans to pay SU skills forward
When Kabelo Tlhabadira moves to the town Kathu in the Northern Cape in January to start his career as a civil engineer-in-training at the Sishen Mine, he will be accompanied by his younger brother, Onalenna. The main reason for uprooting...
Another feather in the cap of SU’s language wizard
Whenever you read an article on Stellenbosch University's (SU) website or a newsletter or notice distributed by the institution, it has likely been edited or translated by Elsabé Grauso. Although colleagues might be puzzled why the...