​​First-year Achievement Awards / Eerstejaarsprestasietoekennings / Amabhaso eMpumelelo waBafundi boNyaka wokuQala

Prof. Arnold Schoonwinkel, Vice-Rector: Learning and Teaching, hosted the annual event in honour of 32 top-achieving first-year students of 2018 and their nominated lecturers at Lord Neethlingshof on Wednesday 10 April 2019. Dr Antoinette van der Merwe guided the proceedings, which were also attended by faculty deans and vice-deans for Learning and Teaching. The invited speaker, Prof. Magda Fourie-Malherbe, former vice-rector for Learning and Teaching at SU and a long-standing ambassador for learning and teaching, inspired the young students and the lecturers to consider what the global future would look like and what role South African university-educated students would play in leading our society into an unknown future.

Pic one:

Melanie Skead (Director: CTL)

Prof. Arnold Schoonwinkel (Vice-Rector: Learning and Teaching)

Prof. Magda Fourie-Malherbe (invited speaker) and Willem Malherbe

Antoinette van der Merwe (Senior Director: Division for Learning and Teaching Enhancement)

Pic two:

Seated: Kabanga Shakankale (student); Debra Shepherd (lecturer: Economics); Louise Warnich (Dean: Science)

Standing: Portia Solomon (student); Michael Schmeisser (lecturer: AgriSciences); Arnold Schoonwinkel; Anthea Jacobs (advisor: CTL)

A power point of the ​evening's winners:  Click here.​

For the official photographs of the evening:  Click here.​

Photographs courtesy of Hennie Roux and Anton Jordaan (Stellenbosch Centre for Photographic Services; Https://www.scpsphoto.co.za​ )