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Stellenbosch University (SU) has for the first time been included in Leiden University’s ranking of the top 500 research universities in the world. In the Leiden Ranking 2011/2012 released on Friday (2 December 2011), SU occupies the second position (397th position overall) among South African universities. The University of Cape Town is in first position [...]

Prof Arnold van Zyl, Vice-Rector: Research, at Stellenbosch University (SU), has been appointed  the new Rector of Chemnitz Technical University in Germany. He will become the 29th rector of the 175 year-old institution. “The appointment of Prof Van Zyl as Rector of the Chemnitz Technical University in Germany is a significant loss for Stellenbosch University, [...]

Stellenbosch University welcomes the proposed changes to the Bill on the Protection of Information announced in Parliament on Friday, says Prof Arnold van Zyl, Acting Rector and Vice-Rector: Research. “As the proposed changes will limit the classification of information to the security departments, it should affect the teaching and research at university in exceptional cases [...]

“Universities will lose their academic freedom and academics may be prosecuted due to sensitive research. Therefore Stellenbosch University (SU) is requesting that the Bill on the Protection of Information, 2009 should be withdrawn and thoroughly reviewed,” says Prof Arnold van Zyl, acting Rector and Vice-rector: Research at the university. Stellenbosch University expressed renewed concern about [...]

Stellenbosch University (SU) has signed an agreement with the Zhejiang Normal University (ZJNU) in Jinhau in the Zhejiang province in China. A delegation from ZJNU, lead by their president (as the rector of the university is called), Prof Wu Fengmin, visited the SU campus on Tuesday. The collaboration agreement will build on the research contacts [...]

Stellenbosch University (SU) received a visit from a high-level delegation from China on Saturday. The Head of the Confucius Institute (CI) Headquarters in China, Madame Xu Lin, visited the University as part of visiting the Confucius Institutes hosted by SU and the University of Cape Town. She was accompanied by Mr Wei Yanggen of the [...]

Stellenbosch University (SU) has announced a partnership with Elsevier, the world’s leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information, which will make a significant contribution to the international competitiveness of the University. It will further enhance the University’s active role in the development of Southern Africa (and the Continent at large) – an essential component [...]

Their Majesties, King Harald V and Queen Sonja of Norway, paid a visit to the Uitsig TB Clinic as guests of Prof Russel Botman, Rector and Vice-Chancellor of Stellenbosch University (SU) on Thursday. The visit to the clinic formed part of a state visit to South Africa on invitation of President Jacob Zuma. Uitsig is [...]

High-level representatives of the African Union Commission (AUC) are to visit Stellenbosch University (SU) to investigate areas of cooperation and the University’s involvement with higher education initiatives of the Department of Human Resources, Science and Technology (HRST) of the African Union. His Excellency, Prof Jean-Pierre Ezin, Commissioner in charge of HRST of the African Union [...]

 “It’s an excellent conference. The presentations are of a high standard and even better than those of the previous conference last year”.  This is how one of the delegates, who attended the third annual Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference that took place from 19-20 May at the Lord Charles Hotel in Somerset West, described [...]

Stellenbosch University (SU) recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Ghana. This brings the number of African universities with whom SU has institutional agreements to five. The signing ceremony took place during a visit by Prof Arnold van Zyl, Vice-Rector (Research) and Dr Christoff Pauw, [...]