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How to encourage poor young men to open up about vulnerabilities
How does one encourage poor marginalised young men in informal settlements to speak with candour about their insecurities and challenges? This is one of the key questions Patricia Zweig, a lecturer at the Research Alliance for Disaster and...
SU Welcomes Second Class of Dell Young Leaders
Stellenbosch University (SU) is excited to announce the next 150 first-year students who have been selected onto the Dell Young Leaders programme. These students join a community of 100 students selected in the inaugural 2020 class, as the...
SoA equips small businesses with key accounting skills
The School of Accountancy (SoA) continued its quest to give back to the community through a recent workshop that equipped business owners in Phillippi and surrounding areas with the key accounting skills to better run their businesses. The...
Feedback from the ICBC
Dear colleagues and students As we speed towards the end of the year, we turn our attention to the mode of teaching, learning and assessment planned for next year, as well as the associated matter of a possible vaccination rule at...
Business Management students win CFA research challenge
Stellenbosch University (SU) has for the first time won the South African leg of the CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) Institute Research Challenge held recent. The CFA Institute Research Challenge is an annual global competition that...
French knighthood in agriculture for SU wine researcher
The French government has bestowed a ceremonial knighthood, the Chevalier dans l'Ordre du Mérite Agricole (Knight in the Order of Agricultural Merit), upon wine microbiologist Prof Benoit Divol. He is an associate professor in the...
Top SU researchers receive NRF awards
Seven prominent researchers at Stellenbosch University (SU) were honoured by the National Research Foundation (NRF) at the recent annual NRF Awards. The awards recognise and celebrate South African research excellence that advances science...
National Children’s Day: Children deserve an education in a safe, healthy environment
National Children's Day is celebrated annually on the first Saturday in November. In an opinion piece for Daily Maverick, Dr Chris Jones (Unit for Moral Leadership) writes that pit latrines and a lack of access to water in schools prevent...
Economics lecturer Le Roux Burrows says good-bye after 37 years
Come 2022, economics lecturer Mr Le Roux Burrows will no longer take on that daily drive from his home in Kleinmond to Stellenbosch University. Instead, he will now embark on other, less-travelled roads − both literally and figuratively...
SU launches COVID-19 pop-up vaccination sites
The first of more than 10 COVID-19 pop-up vaccination sites was launched on Monday (8 November 2021) on the main campus of Stellenbosch University (SU). Unvaccinated students and staff can now be jabbed before the end of the examinations...