​The Stellenbosch University Transformation Office recently put out a call to members of the university community to write about their experiences during #LockdownSA. Claire Kelly is the Acting Head and Faculty Programme Manager of the...

The 2019 winners of the annual Stellenbosch University (SU) Teaching Excellence Awards were announced recently. Lecturers of the Faculty of Science have bagged two of the 12 awards. Dr Marnel Mouton was awarded the Teaching Excellence Award...

One of the first recorded species to have been lost to forestry and agriculture in the Western Cape in the 1800s, a type of fountain bush from the pea family that used to grow next to mountain streams in the Tulbagh region, have been...

​​​​​​​​​Thanks to the Extended Degree Programme (EDP), the future is full of possibilities for students such as Axola Dlepu, a BA Social Dynamics student who gained access to the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Stellenbosch...

Women's health as well as reproductive health tends to be neglected in the public domain. However, Dr Rizwana Roomaney, a lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Stellenbosch University (SU), wants to help change this. An experienced...

Modelling clay is not an item regularly found on requisition forms of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS). Yet anatomy lecturer Janine Correia nowadays purchases clay for her students to play with while simultaneously...

Edu­cational assessment at schools and universities should be seen as a means through which teaching and learning can unfold and not just as something to test learners and students. This is one of the key arguments in a new book by Dr...

​​The Unit will now report directly to Deputy Vice-Chancellor (DVC): Learning and Teaching, Prof Deresh Ramjugernath.The move comes after much thought had been given to the positioning of the Unit within the University, and how to best...

The calibre of Stellenbosch University students and staff and the work that they do towards solving pressing agronomical issues in the South African agricultural sector was recognised by the South African Society of Crop Production (SASCP)...

In a first colloquium on the way forward with the new Language Policy Framework for Higher Education Institutions hosted on 28 and 29 September 2021, higher education representatives agreed that collaboration would be key. The event was...