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For the love of science: Helping learners succeed
What an experience to walk into the lecture hall of the De Beers Building, just after 08:00 on a Saturday morning (25 May 2019) and see about 120 Grade 11 learners, all dressed in white lab coats, ready for a day of chemistry experiments...
Clinical Pharmacology reselected as PharmaTrain Centre of Excellence
There was much to celebrate when the division of Clinical Pharmacology's academic Medicine Development Programme was recently re-awarded certification by the PharmaTrain Centre of Excellence. Certification by the centre is one of the...
Centre for Medical Ethics and Law celebrates 15 years
Thanks to the work done at CMEL, Stellenbosch University plays a leading role in equipping the country's healthcare practitioners and researchers for the ethical, social and clinical challenges they face during their careers. Prof...
ADA celebrates ten years of excellence
Ten years, 210 workshops, 4 526 participants and 53 nationalities – this has been the success of the Stellenbosch University (SU) African Doctoral Academy (ADA) in numbers. For the past decade, the ADA, which is situated in SU...
New milk analyser a boon for babies and research
Stellenbosch University (SU) recently became the first university in Africa to acquire a MIRIS Human Milk Analyser. This device is used in neonatal units and analyses the nutritional composition of breast milk, which is crucial in the...
SUNCEP virtual broadcasts to enhance teaching and learning
One of the Learning Enhancement (LE) projects offered by SUNCEP is the LitNum Digihub which supports 6 primary schools in the rural/ farming region between Worcester and Ceres in the Breede Valley. Good performing learners in grades 5, 6, &...
Stellenbosch delegation attends contact seminar at Leipzig
A group of Stellenbosch University (SU) academic and support services staff visited Leipzig University, Germany, for a second contact seminar between the two universities from 23 to 29 June, following on the first hosted at SU in November...
SARS can ‘pierce’ corporate veil to catch tax avoiders
A new study at Stellenbosch University (SU) has found that a relatively unknown piece of legislation could be a new ace up the sleeves of the South African Revenue Service (SARS) as it tries to catch shareholders who hide behind a company...
Best-practice guideline can help nurses assess and manage pain better
When patients with acute trauma-related pain enter emergency centres (ECs), the first healthcare personnel they encounter are professional nurses who must assess and manage their pain. As the frontline healthcare workers in ECs, nurses...
Renewed MBChB curriculum will address the needs of South Africans
Staff and students at Stellenbosch University's (SU) Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) eagerly engaged with the proposed design of the renewed MBChB curriculum at a recent expo held at the Tygerberg campus. “We want to have a...