​LEARNING & TEACHING ENHANCEMENT SEMINAR, 13 MARCH 2019held in Room 3008, Education Building, from 12h45 – 13h45 Ms Mariëtte Volschenk, a lecturer at the Stellenbosch University Centre for Health Professions Education in the Faculty of...

​When she was awarded the prestigious PhD Global Minds Scholarship through Leuven University, Lynn Hendricks had not prepared herself for temperatures of minus-six degrees and for the lonely, overwhelmed feeling of being in a new country...

When contemplating on social justice in March with Human Right's Day being celebrated on 21 March, one cannot help but to think of the words of former South African president, the late Nelson Mandela who once said that education is not only...

The nominations for this year's SU Woordfees Woordtrofee Awards [Word Trophies] have been announced. The winners will each receive a trophy at an awards ceremony on the 4th of April. The nominees (in alphabetical order) are: Best Upcoming...

​​Thanks to two successful National Equipment Programme (NEP) applications, Stellenbosch University's (SU) Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) will be acquiring two state-of-the-art laboratory instruments which have, until now...

Vanessa Reyneke, a Project Coordinator in the General Linguistics Department at Stellenbosch University, and her husband, Johan, have embarked on the ambitious goal of raising R300 000 to help their two-year old Deaf daughter obtain two...

​​​​Every year, Stellenbosch University commemorates Human Rights Day on 21 March with the rest of the country as part of the institution's commitment to the South African Bill of Rights and consequently the right to human dignity, equality...

​The South African Association of Language Teaching (SAALT) hosted its annual conference in Pretoria at the Time Square Maslow Hotel in Menlyn, Pretoria, from 19-21 st June. This year's theme was “Advancing multilingualism – mining the...

​Most people visit their local animal welfare association only when they want to adopt a new kitten or puppy. Not Dr Luther van der Mescht. He goes to visit in search of fleas. To be precise, cat fleas. He is working on a comprehensive...

The reality for many South Africans remains one of poverty and social exclusion. Why are the constitutional rights not a reality in the country? The reasons are in a complex mixture of factors, says Prof Sandy Liebenberg, Distinguished...