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Author: Corporate Communication and Marketing/Korporatiewe Kommunikasie en Bemarking [Rozanne Engel]
Published: 25/01/2021
The new and innovative Jan Mouton Learning Centre will soon open its doors to Matie students.
Nestled between the Langenhoven (Neelsie) student centre, and the Polymer Science building, the Jan Mouton Learning Centre will serve as a general learning and teaching facility at Stellenbosch University (SU), where students, staff and stakeholders of the University and the broader public can interact with each other.
“Despite advances in technology and the rapid developments in distance learning, there will always be a need for personal interaction while learning. This centre, with its various lecture rooms, breakaway rooms and big open spaces, makes interaction so much easier, says Prof Stan du Plessis, Chief Operating Officer at SU.
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Author: Corporate Communication and Marketing Division
Published: 11/12/2020
Stellenbosch University (SU) will continue with its hybrid graduation ceremonies, which will include small face-to-face interactions and live streaming for the remainder of its graduands.
In a communiqué to staff and PhD graduands, Prof Stan du Plessis, Chair of the Institutional Committee for Business Continuity (ICBC) said that the ICBC had decided, after careful consideration and much discussion, that SU would proceed with its small face-to-face graduation ceremonies for doctoral graduands, honorary doctorates, Chancellor s awards recipients and the Chancellor s medallist. These ceremonies are scheduled from Monday, 14 December to Wednesday, 16 December 2020.
“We were faced with a very important, but difficult decision on Thursday afternoon (10 December 2020): whether to proceed with our hybrid graduation ceremonies scheduled for next week while South Africa finds itself in the second wave o