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International Literacy Day: Literacy a critical component of learning
International Literacy Day was celebrated on Sunday 8 September. In opinion pieces for the media, Drs Hanelie Adendorff (Centre for Teaching and Learning) and Zelda Barends (Curriculum Studies) argue that literacy is a crucial component...
Special outreach to promote child health
A sticker on your forehead, jumping on one leg or given a chance to marvel at your disposable gloves – everything has been put in place to make a unique health outreach to vulnerable children go smoothly. The Western Cape Department of...
"Africa, Our Home" – fostering Internationalisation through culture at Stellenbosch University
Stellenbosch University (SU) students celebrated the richness of diversity of its student body at a recent Cultural Evening, held on Friday, 6 September 2024, at The Stellenbosch Museum. Organised by the Student Representative Council's...
Podcast: ‘We have to grapple to learn’: Talking Transformative Assessment with Dr Sharon Malan
Dr Sharon Malan, programme lead of the EMS Faculty's Extended Curriculum Programme, was recently interviewed on the talks@stellenboschuni podcast where she shared her journey of integrating artificial intelligence into the first years’...
Adaptive capacity of plants in drylands and deserts is “globally exceptional”
What do we know about how plants adapted to extreme climates in the desert regions of our world? And how are these plants going to respond to emerging threats, such as increases in aridity, grazing pressure and desertification? These are...
Symposium urges shift from charity to constitutional right in tackling hunger crisis
While millions of South Africans are going hungry, tonnes of food are wasted annually. The country needs to move beyond the notion of “charity", to the constitutionally enshrined right to food when dealing with people facing hunger and...
SU Professor appointed director of global vaccine research network
Professor Samantha Sampson, a renowned tuberculosis (TB) researcher from Stellenbosch University (SU), has been appointed as the Director of the VALIDATE Network, a global collaboration aimed at accelerating vaccine development for complex...
Global Hunger Crisis in Focus at SU’s 2024 International Social Justice Conference and Social Justice Summit
As the world confronts the devastating reality that nearly 2.4 billion people – almost 30% of the global population – lack adequate access to food, 1 Stellenbosch University's Centre for Social Justice (“CSJ") & multiple global and national...
SU launches IMPACT Open-Air Laboratory
The Hans Merensky Chair in Advanced Modelling of Eucalypt Growth and Wood Formation (or EucXylo) at Stellenbosch University (SU) officially opened its IMPACT (Intensive Monitoring of Planted And Competing Trees) Open-Air Laboratory (OAL)...
Vice-Rector (Research, Innovation and Postgraduate Studies) honours SU researchers
Prof Eugene Cloete, Vice-Rector: Research, Innovation and Postgraduate Studies at Stellenbosch University (SU), recently gave recognition to 45 of SU's top researchers who made the biggest contribution to accredited publications and/or...