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Genetic research can help improve medical treatment

New knowledge generated through genomic research (the study of an organism's genes and their functions) will continue to deliver effective drugs and bring hope...

Smartphones keep students from concentrating during lectures

​​​Digital technologies, especially smartphones, have become such an integral part of our lives that it is difficult to picture life without them. Today, people...

SU taking action to prevent and address gender-based violence

​Gender-based violence is a significant yet preventable barrier to gender equality. In response to the rising threat of gender-based violence in the country as...

Wood Choppers Ball 2017

​It was a magical night with roughly 75 attendees, including undergraduates, postgraduates and lecturers. This year we celebrated our guests of honor, Pierre...

Name change of JS Gericke Library

The Library and Information Service is pleased to announce that the JS Gericke Library has been renamed Stellenbosch University Library Universiteit...

‘We need to get foundation right’ – panellists at Education Research conference

​​​​​​​A panel discussion on “The practice of improvement: Getting from here to there" was one of the highlights of the annual Quantitative Applications in...

Students challenged by Leadership in Education short course

​Informative, inspiring, relevant, challenging, empowering and thought-provoking. These were some of the check-out words used by course participants during the...

Education student receives two Rector’s Awards

​​​When MK Nompumza, a fourth-year Education student, registered at Stellenbosch University in 2014 he did so with the resolution that he will take full...

Conference participants value feedback and engagement

Conferences such as the annual Education Students' Regional Research Conference (ESRRC) have great value and researchers, students and supervisors should be...

Tygerberg returns to its natural roots with water-saving, endemic plants

​The Tygerberg campus of Stellenbosch University (SU) is moving towards a landscape that echoes the original endemic plant growth in the area. By increasing the...
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