​​​​Devasting fires occur frequently in many of South Africa's more than 4 000 informal settlements and in backyard dwellings, leaving thousands of people homeless and resulting in numerous fatalities, says Professor Richard Walls, head of...

SU International contributes in various ways to ensuring a transformative student experience and promoting comprehensive internationalisation at Stellenbosch University. One example is the programme entitled “In conversation with...

​​A group from the Forestry Development Trust (FDT) and Sokoine University of Agriculture, both based in Tanzania, visited the Department of Forest and Wood Science from 12 – 14 April 2022 for a workshop on wood property measurement methods...

​Sunday 1 May was Workers' Day. In an opinion piece for Mail & Guardian, Prof Dieter von Fintel (Department of Economics) writes that the post-lockdown 'Great Resignation' trend wasn't so popular among South African workers because they...

Skills training following the completion of a doctorate is critical to enable early-career researchers to become research leaders. Yet very few African universities offer postdoctoral training, in many instances due to a lack of senior...

​​​Stellenbosch University's (SU) Dr Alexander (Alex) Andrason has achieved the exceptional once more: This hyper-multilingual lecturer who speaks ten languages and a global nomad who has already resided in eight European and African...

Since 2001, SU International has been offering an annual school in the months of June and July to coincide with the northern hemisphere's summer. The summer school, which started as a single tailor-made course developed for one specific...

In April, government announced the end of South Africa's state of disaster that had been in place to address the Covid-19 pandemic for the past two years. The announcement not only means that many of the pandemic restrictions are being...

​Medical specialists urgently need more knowledge on how to treat and manage hyperkalaemia (too much potassium in the blood), which may cause respiratory muscle weakness and potentially fatal heart rhythm disturbance. This is according to a...

After more than 700 days, South Africa's state of disaster has been lifted. Campus is lively, indoor masking reminds us that some risk still remains. When the pandemic struck, it felt as if Internationalisation entered a state of disaster...