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News Author: Stellenbosch University / Universiteit Stellenbosch Published: 16/04/2021 ​ The Council of Stellenbosch University (SU) held its first of four scheduled meetings for the year on Tuesday 13 April 2021. As in December 2020, we again met in hybrid mode, with some members gathering on campus (observing all COVID-19 protocols) and others participating online. SU did extremely well in trying circumstances last year, having completed the 2020 academic year successfully despite a rapid switch to online mode when contact tuition was suspended nationwide in March. In the end, no fewer t...

News Author: Innovus Published: 09/04/2021 ​The first cohort of Stellenbosch University graduates, SU faculty and corporate employees successfully completed the first 6-week programme of the newly established SU Techpreneurship Centre in March this year. At the end of the program, 90% of SU graduates were interviewed by local technology companies, and 70% of them were offered full-time internships. The Techpreneurship Centre is creating a valuable link between academia and exciting South African technology companies. The SU Techpreneurship Centre is a new data science and entrepreneurial d...

Share In March, the virtual mobility project began among students from the institutions that make up the network, who are already taking subjects from different universities. Students who are participating positively highlighted the possibility of approaching new approaches, and meeting people from other houses of study, particularly in the current healthcare context. camera During the last weeks, and even in the midst of the total quarantine, students from different UC undergraduate programs have met teachers and students from other Chilean universities thanks to the Virtual Student Mobility...

The term has been in use for several decades but has gained currency as enterprises have become awash in a sea of data, funneled into databases by a wide variety of new customer-facing applications, particularly mobile apps. Data science, though, can be applied to small data sets as well as the “big data” generated by mass-scale applications. Advertisement One of the newest data science programmes in sub-Saharan Africa is the School for Data Science and Computational Thinking at Stellenbosch University (SU) in South Africa, opened in July 2019 with the goal of “blazing new trails in wha...

Teachers and parents can find the solutions to the quizzes HERE! The team develop teaching materials to enhance problem-solving skills through education in computational thinking and will have more materials for Seachtain na Gaeilge and St Patrick's Day.  Make sure to check on the website HERE. What is Bebras?  Bebras is an international initiative aiming to promote computational thinking among school students at all ages. Participants are usually supervised by teachers who may integrate the Bebras challenge in their teaching activities. The challenge is performed at schools using computer...