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Faculty of Education Teaching and Learning Webinar: 13 October 2022
The Vice-Dean (Teaching and Learning) of the Faculty of Education, Professor Michael le Cordeur, recently published a piece in The Daily Maverick (18 July 2022) entitled “We need a curriculum overhaul to equip young people for the...
Community-Based Risk Assessment training in Polokwane
Santam recently commissioned the Research Alliance for Disaster & Risk Reduction (RADAR), in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, to train disaster management and fire service personnel in the Limpopo region on community risk...
MGD's legacy of almost six decades will live on through SU
The Matie Community Service, better known as Maties Gemeenskapdiens (MGD), has finally integrated with Stellenbosch University's (SU) Division of Social Impact (DSI) after an intensive consultation process that stretched over two years...
Africa’s healthcare workers struggle to use emergency point-of-care ultrasound
The use of bedside or emergency point-of-care ultrasound (ePOCUS) reduces the time it takes to diagnose diseases in severely ill patients who are being treated in emergency centres and also decreases the chances of missed, wrong, or...
Sustainability students illustrate social entrepreneurship
Students of the Diploma in Sustainable Development recently successfully coordinated two events aimed at developing their entrepreneurial skills and creative competencies. On 20 October, first-year students presented their business ideas...
FMHS acknowledge staff’s learning and teaching efforts
A celebration was recently held to honour the achievement of staff members within the learning, teaching and assessment (LTA) space at Stellenbosch University's Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS). This inaugural event was hosted...
Dr Munya Saruchera of SU serves on international committee
The Society for AIDS in Africa (SAA), organiser of the International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (ICASA), has nominated Dr Munya Saruchera, Interim Director of the Africa Centre for HIV/AIDS Management...
Jemaine keeping a thousand IT balls in the air
Jemaine Wales is a project coordinator at Information Technology. For the past nine months, while Albrecht Bester, manager: network infrastructure, went on early retirement, Jemaine took care of all the business-as-usual tasks that...
Re-imagining assessment for a transformative student experience at the 2022 SU SoTL Conference
Conference delegates at the 15 th SU SoTL Conference were once again afforded the opportunity to attend engaging workshops, keynotes and presentations. The theme of this year's conference was “Assessment matters. Re-imagining assessment...
Prof Adriaan van Niekerk helps improve crop yields, sustainable management of land and water resources
Prof Adriaan van Niekerk, Director of the Centre for Geographical Analysis and a professor in Geography and Environmental Studies at Stellenbosch University, recently delivered his inaugural lecture, titled 'Data Science: Opportunity or...