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Restoring trust in higher education
In 2025, the Finance Division wants to contribute to restoring trust in Higher Education in South Africa. EDUCAUSE, a nonprofit association in the United States whose mission is "to advance higher education through the use of information...
Hoping all your squares and cubes will fit comfortably within your expectations of 2025
By Anita Nel, Chief Director Innovation and Commercialisation (0 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9)² = 2025. Furthermore, it also represents the sum of the cubes of all the digits of the decimal numbering system. (0³ + 1³ + 2³ + 3³ + 4³ +...
IT is SU’s strategic partner on our digital transformation journey
By Antoinette van der Merwe, Chief Director Information Technology Aligned to the Educause Top 10 issues for building a trusted, resilient institution, IT will focus in 2025 to be SU's strategic partner on our digital transformation...
SU celebrates 200th graduate of MSc in Clinical Epidemiology
The Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics celebrated a significant milestone at the March graduation when Dr Craig Corbett became the 200th graduate of the unit's MSc in Clinical Epidemiology programme. Corbett, who recently completed...
Volleyball gives PhD graduate Jerome Fredericks his sporting chance
From being told that he should aspire to become an astronaut as he was “good for nothing on earth" to graduating this week from Stellenbosch University (SU) with a PhD in occupational therapy, Jerome Peter Boboo Fredericks has exceeded...
Beyond silence: It’s the right(s) time to speak up
Human Rights Day is not just a historical marker it is a mirror held up to our present reality as South Africans. It forces us to take a good look at ourselves and ask whether we are truly honouring the sacrifices made for freedom, justice...
VAT increase, a solution or just a short-term fix to a long-term crisis?
Dr Velenkosini Matsebula is a Senior Lecturer in Development Finance at Stellenbosch Business School. The South African government has once again turned to taxation as a means of addressing its fiscal challenges, announcing an increase in...
DLTE Seminar - Kindling the fire: Transformative teaching and the decolonisation of medical education
You are invited to attend the second quarterly Teaching-Learning-Assessment seminar of 2025, offered by the Division for Learning and Teaching Enhancement (DLTE).Speaker: Prof. Faadiel Essop (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)Topic...
World Health Day: Prioritising the health of mothers, newborns
World Health Day is observed annually on 7 April. The theme for 2025 is “Healthy beginnings, hopeful futures" focusing on improving maternal and newborn health in Africa and the rest of the world. In opinion pieces for the media, experts...
Some insects are declining, but what’s happening to the other 99%?
A team of scientists from South Africa and the United Kingdom have developed a synthesis framework, integrating multiple evidence streams, that will allow for the rapid assessment of changes in insect biodiversity. “We know that insect...