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Students write about youth issues
In celebration of Youth Day (16 June) and Youth Month, students Connor Bam (Humanities) and Tian Alberts (Law) write for Mail & Guardian and News24 respectively about some of the challenges young people face today. Click on the links below...
Virtual conference explores role of arts in peace and reconciliation
Stellenbosch University (SU) recently co-hosted an international conference with the theme, Art in Peace and Reconciliation: A Transnational Perspective, in collaboration with the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) to explore...
Grant will make 'meaningful contribution' to the care of stroke patients
A R2.2 million research grant from the British National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) will bring Professor Quinette Louw one step closer to achieving universal health coverage for people with strokes. The grant, which will run over...
It takes a village to raise a child.
It takes a village to raise a child. Throughout his life, Elvin Hendricks filled his own village with inhabitants. Together with his own hard work, Elvin credits this group of people to the success that he has achieved. First of all...
African violin sounds
Wood used for musical instrument needs to meet certain physical and acoustical properties and not all wood species are suitable as tonewoods. While guitars are often made from various (indigenous) wood species, violins worldwide are made...
Online teaching should also consider students with disabilities
Online teaching, learning and assessment practices used during the COVID-19 pandemic should also consider the plight of students with disabilities as well as those who have fewer resources, writes Dr Marcia Lyner-Cleophas from the...
Why was Afrikaner Economic Empowerment more effective than BEE?
There were a few reasons why Afrikaner Economic Empowerment was more effective than Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment, writes Dr Jantjie Xaba (Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology) in an opinion piece for Mail & Guardian...
Support for lecturers during "Emergency Remote Teaching, Learning and Assessment"
The onset of COVID-19 has necessitated us to replace our face-to-face interaction with students during Semester 1 and the foreseeable future with preparing and instituting “Emergency Remote Teaching, Learning and Assessment” (ERT). The...
MobiLex: Multilingual Glossary Project
The SU Faculty of Education's glossary project resulted in an open-access cell phone application, called MobiLex. Academics in the faculty compiled a glossary as part of the faculty's language plan in order to address multilingualism at...
Resuming the national school nutrition programme is a vital test for children’s socio-economic rights
The following article by Prof Sandra Liebenberg of the Faculty of Law at Stellenbosch University was published in the Daily Maverick of 29 June 2020: The outcome of the case concerning children’s rights to food and basic education...