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SU online and blended short courses now available at SUNOnline
Do you want to sharpen your language skills, develop your leadership potential or start your own business? Stellenbosch University's Short Courses Division, has over 500 short courses that can help you achieve your educational and...
TLA Seminar: Curriculum Renewal: Balancing Clinical Competence and Critical Skills Development
You are invited to attend the next quarterly TLA seminar offered by the Division for Learning and Teaching Enhancement Speaker: Prof. Marianne Unger (Division of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences) (SU Teaching Fellow)...
Winter School advances social science in the digital age
What factors make a political movement successful? Can internet searches reveal patterns of economic inequality? Are bots influencing our elections? For social scientists, the abundance of data produced in social networks, news media...
This is how people can help conserve insects
For humanity's sake, people need to change their attitudes towards insects. They are essential for our wellbeing. They pollinate a third of our crops and help make a healthy living soil. We must protect them better and learn from ideas...
Epilepsy: What is it and how is it managed?
International Epilepsy Day is celebrated every year on the second Monday in February. This year, Campus Health Service is bringing awareness to this condition and giving some information on what it is and how best to manage it. Epilepsy is...
Dr Margaret Blackie - SU Teaching Fellow 2020
Dr Margaret Blackie, Department of Chemistry and Polymer Science, has been appointed as SU Teaching Fellow from 2020. Dr Blackie is a senior lecturer in the Department of Chemistry and Polymer Science. She has been at SU since January 2010...
Self-regulating intervention curbs excessive media multitasking
Are you one of those people who simultaneously watch TV, check the latest Twitter trends or Instagram feeds, or chat on WhatsApp? If yes, you are media multitasking which may sound impressive, but it does come at a cost. “Because media...
Research delves into the mind of rapists
Nobody wakes up in the morning and says, 'I want to rape somebody'. There are many external factors that cause a person to want to commit such an act – including stress and social isolation. This is the strong view of Dr Lihle Qulu, a...
Pregnancy Awareness Week 2020
Pregnancy Awareness Week takes place in February each year and is a way to strengthen pregnancy education and stress important issues that promote a healthy pregnancy and safe motherhood. Here we have a few facts and figures relating to...
Mind the (gender) gap in STEM fields
On Tuesday (11 February), we celebrated the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. In an opinion piece for News24, Dr Tashnica Sylvester from the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences writes that we need to embrace the...