​​A first-of-its-kind training project between the Department of Business Management and Italtile culminated in seven students being offered internships with the company and one of the seven, Dannika Essl, being named as the overall winner...

Please see the updates from HELTASA below. The Higher Education Learning and Teaching Association of Southern Africa (HELTASA) is a professional association for educators and other significant role players in the tertiary sector. Digital...

​An article published by two colleagues at the Centre for Health Professions Education (CHPE) in the Medical Education, earned them the Henry Walton Award. That means that the particular article was só popular that during 2018 it was the...

​​The phenomenon of using photo storybooks ( fotonovelas) to address health issues in South Africa has shown significant promise and thanks to a grant he received from the Division of Social Impact at Stellenbosch University (SU), Dr Burt...

The first week of September marks Kidney Awareness Week in South Africa and it highlights the need to have one's kidney functions checked early before chronic kidney disease sets in. Kidney disease can kill. Ten thousand South African, men...

​​​​​Firebrand. Art lover. Traveller. These are the three words that friends recently sponsored as a birthday gift for political scientist Prof Amanda Gouws. There's a host others that one could choose to describe her by too: Feminist...

​​The scars of childhood trauma run much deeper than the actual abuse or neglect experienced by the child. Studies have revealed that they can have a lifelong effect on brain functioning. Now researchers at SU's Department of Psychiatry are...

Prof Anneke Hesseling keeps a painting by Sir Luke Fildes called The Doctor above her desk. The image of the Victorian-era general practitioner observing the “crisis of illness" in a child in those (pre-antibiotic) days is an enduring one –...

​​​The Stellenbosch University Botanical Garden (SUBG) is the only garden in Africa and one of only 11 gardens in the world to have been named an Accredited Conservation Practitioner by Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI). The...

​​​Stellenbosch University's (SU) efforts to mitigate the risk of day zero has resulted in a 45% reduction of water usage in 2019 when measured against the year 2015. Since the implementation of a new grey water system, the institution is...