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SU improves its position on QS subject rankings	https://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=9814	SU improves its position on QS subject rankings	Corporate Communication & Marketing / Korporatiewe Kommunikasie & Bemarking [Alec Basson]	Stellenbosch University can count itself among the leading higher education institutions globally in Life Science and Medicine, Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences and Management, Engineering & Technology, and Natural Sciences.
World Consumer Rights Day: Support competition, support the consumer	https://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=9792	World Consumer Rights Day: Support competition, support the consumer	Willem Boshoff	World Consumer Rights Day is observed on 15 March. In an opinion piece, Prof Willem Boshoff writes that we need to consider how regulatory constraints and non-competition objectives threaten to derail the country’s consumer-focused competition policy.
International Women’s Day: Women’s voices must be heard	https://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=9779	International Women’s Day: Women’s voices must be heard	Corporate Communication & Marketing / Korporatiewe Kommunikasie & Bemarking	International Women’s Day was celebrated on 8 March. In opinion pieces for the media, experts at Stellenbosch University write that women’s voices must be heard in all spheres of society.
SA’s women academics burnt out when working from home	https://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=9776	SA’s women academics burnt out when working from home	Corporate Communication & Marketing / Korporatiewe Kommunikasie & Bemarking [Alec Basson]	Working from home became a nightmare for many of South Africa’s women academics during the first six months of the Covid-19 pandemic-enforced lockdown in 2020 because of increased workloads, domestic pressures, and inadequate workspaces.
Circular economy can help municipalities manage waste sustainably	https://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=9775	Circular economy can help municipalities manage waste sustainably	Corporate Communication & Marketing / Korporatiewe Kommunikasie & Bemarking [Alec Basson]	Municipalities, especially the smaller ones, should consider implementing a circular economic model of reusing, recycling, refurbishment and remanufacturing of waste products instead of just dumping them in landfills.
OPTIMUS programme launch 2023	https://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=9760	OPTIMUS programme launch 2023	Dr Sharon Malan	Excellence and achievement were celebrated as the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences (EMS) welcomed some of the top second-year students in the faculty to the opening of the 2023 OPTIMUS programme on Monday, 20 February 2023.
South Africa’s relief grant: how it can be used to help young people into jobs	https://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=9762	South Africa’s relief grant: how it can be used to help young people into jobs	Kate Orkin, Ingrid Woolard, Maya Goldman, Murray Leibbrandt	The COVID-19 pandemic worsened the unemployment crisis in South Africa. In the second quarter of 2021, unemployment rates were the highest ever officially recorded. Many people who lost their only source of stable income fell into poverty as a result.
Inaugural Corporate Governance Conference hosted by SU departments	https://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=9759	Inaugural Corporate Governance Conference hosted by SU departments	George Nel (School of Accountancy) and Nicolene Wesson (Stellenbosch Business School)	The Inaugural Corporate Governance Conference was hosted jointly by the Centre for Corporate Governance in Africa at the Stellenbosch Business School and, the School of Accountancy, Economic and Management Sciences Faculty at SU.
Experts urge government to prioritise SA's reading crisis	https://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=9751	Experts urge government to prioritise SA's reading crisis	Corporate Communication and Marketing	Most children in South Africa in no-fee schools leave Grade 1 without knowing the alphabet, while 82% of Grade 4 children across the country cannot read for meaning.
Private, communal landholders need more support to protect rhinos	https://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=9738	Private, communal landholders need more support to protect rhinos	Corporate Communication & Marketing / Korporatiewe Kommunikasie & Bemarking [Alec Basson]	Adaptive policies are needed to support private and communal rhino custodians who conserve at least half of the remaining rhinos in Africa.