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Opinion article: Teachers are in ideal position to help
Our world is becoming increasingly complex and intolerant of social difference. Schools and especially teachers have a significant role to play in creating opportunities for children and adolescents to engage in dialogue and to affirm the...
Stem cell research gets ‘boost’ from NRF
Stem cell research at Stellenbosch University's (SU) Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) recently received a major boost in the form of a R1,93 million grant awarded to Dr Mari van de Vyver from the Division of Endocrinology...
Saturday surgeries cut waiting time for breast cancer patients
When Dr Ilna Conradie looked for alternative ways to reduce the waiting time for surgery of breast cancer patients at Tygerberg Hospital (TBH) last year, she came across Project Flamingo – a charity-based programme that facilitates “catch...
SU researchers aim to grow research collaboration with African countries
'Orphan crops' and the impact of an invasive weed on subsistence farmers in Nigeria are two of the topics Stellenbosch University (SU) researchers will investigate as part of a research visit funded by SU's Centre for Collaboration in...
GUS Daytime Bioscope Program
WEEK 1 (18 to 22 April): Money Iseeyou Simon Gush (SA) Creation Kudzanai Chiurai (ZIM) Meal Time O'refiloe Mashope (SA) WEEK 2 (24 to 29 April): Movement A Windy Day Kamyar Bineshtarigh (Iran/SA) Beitbridge Moonwalk 2010 Dan Halter (SA)...
VAP Talk: Decolonising Art Institutions
"Decolonising Art Institutions" by Nkule Mabaso Bio Nkule Mabaso (b.1988) currently works as curator of the Michaelis Galleries at the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town. She graduated with a Fine Arts degree from...
Telematic Schools project seeks to expand initiative
A total of 505 schools from the Western, Northern and Eastern Cape are part of the Telematic Schools project, an initiative which seeks to address important educational challenges in South Africa. It started as a pilot project in 2009 to...
Research Project: Western Cape Department of Transport & Public Works
A research team of 10 BcomHons in Public and Development students took part in a three-month internship with the School of Public Leadership from 29 January 2017. The aim of the internship was to evaluate three different programmes from the...
Reducing the environmental impact of concrete structures using fabric formed fibre reinforced concrete
Prof Billy Boshoff, from the Unit for Construction Materials (UCM), Stellenbosch University, visited the University of Bath for three months in the beginning of 2017 as part of his sabbatical. The title of the collaborative project is:...
Wordless picturebooks help parents and children read
In South Africa we largely overlook the potential of wordless picturebooks to help promote a culture of reading and to improve literacy, especially among parents and their pre-school children in poor communities. "This is despite...