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New EMS Dean ready for challenges
Broadening student access and success, enhancing research excellence, accelerating transformation of the staff body and ensuring relevance of the curriculum. These are the four core elements Prof Ingrid Woolard, newly appointed dean of the...
MB,ChB curriculum undergoing major overhaul
The medical programme (MB,ChB) of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) is currently being renewed with the aim of making the curriculum more pragmatic for students, and more responsive to the health needs of the population. It...
Helping Paralympians stay free from injury, illness
Athletes participating at the Paralympics can suffer from illness and injury during competition and therefore prevention strategies are needed to help them perform at their best. This was one of the viewpoints of Prof Wayne Derman from the...
Prof Hester Klopper elected to council of international body
Prof Hester Klopper, Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Strategy and Internationalisation at Stellenbosch University (SU), has recently been elected to serve on the Council of the Consortium Universities for Global Health (CUGH) based in Washington...
Farewell, Prof Leopoldt van Huyssteen!
Prof Leopoldt van Huyssteen, Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Stellenbosch University (SU), is looking forward to his retirement at the end of November, especially to the freedom that he will have to tackle his long list of projects. Even...
Several factors impede land reform efforts
The success of the land reform effort is constrained by, among others, poor agricultural support systems, bureaucracy, and a lack of smart incentives, said Prof Johann Kirsten, Director of the Bureau for Economic Research at Stellenbosch...
Court Judgement Gelyke Kanse
The Western Cape Division of the High Court of South Africa recently found in favour of Stellenbosch University (SU) in an application in which Gelyke Kanse and eight other applicants ('the applicants') challenged the process SU followed...
Quackery under fire at SU summit
The “antidote" to quackery and pseudoscience is evidence-based healthcare based on sound scientific research, and proper science communication to make technical scientific information digestible for members of the public. This message was...
Universities SA expresses concern relating to the cuts in funding for research development
Universities SA (USAf) has released a statement in which concern is expressed relating the cuts in funding for research development. . Click here to read the statement
SU launches Africa Centre for Scholarship
Stellenbosch University (SU) launched the Africa Centre for Scholarship (ACS) during the Africa University Day celebrations today (24 November 2017). As part of the ACS launch, three bursaries of R30 000 each were awarded to postgraduate...