​​South Africa could face mass hunger if efforts to offset the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic are eased, write Dr Gabrielle Wills, Prof Servaas van der Berg (both from the Department of Economics) and Prof Leila Patel...

​​​​​Dear colleagues and students Welcome back from recess, and all the best with the second semester! Most of us are still working and studying online from home. Nevertheless, our Stellenbosch University (SU) campuses are slowly but surely...

Since newborn babies, as well as their mothers and the hospital staff looking after them, are very vulnerable to COVID-19, we need policies and systems that can help to protect them, write Profs Angela Dramowski and Adrie Bekker from the...

​​​​Keep growing your teaching @ SU Teaching Fellowships The SU Teaching Fellowships provide excellent teachers and scholars of teaching and learning with the opportunity to spend more consistent periods of time, with various forms of...

​A team of computer science students from Stellenbosch University walked away with the first place in Investec's Programmable Banking hackathon, which took place from 23 to 24 July. The team of BScHons students, consisting of Jaco Swart...

What would happen if South Africa were to place the interests of children and adolescents front and centre of all policy and responses? This is the question Prof Mark Tomlinson from the Institute for Life Course Health Research tried to...

Stellenbosch University's Development and Alumni Relations (DAR) has successfully launched the first in a series of conversations with national and international leaders, titled the Matie Crest Talks. On Thursday, 23 July more than 1 600...

​​​Stellenbosc​h University (SU) has launched a process to rename the RW Wilcocks Building on its Stellenbosch campus. SU staff, students and representatives of the Stellenbosch community have been invited to participate in the process. The...

The Rector and Vice-Chancellor, Prof Wim de Villiers, invites all personnel of Stellenbosch University (SU) to the second Staff Assembly of 2020. In a first for our institution, the meeting will be held online because of restrictions on...

​​​​​Eleven Knight-Hennessy scholars and five staff members from Stanford University visited the Faculty of Education on 21 August. They were hosted by the Office of Prof Jonathan Jansen, Distinguished Professor of Education, Education...