Day Nine: University of Stellenbosch

Our final visit of the tour was to the University of Stellenbosch, located about an hour outside Cape Town. Stellenbosch is quite different from the other institutions that we visited; most notably because of its dual language policy which means that some of the teaching at undergraduate level is done in Afrikaans, leading to a lower percentage of black, coloured and indian students than at other universities.

The majority of our meetings at Stellenbosch were separated out by theme and the individual groups all had highly informative mornings. Theme one was particularly interested in the substantial outreach programmes that the university runs and their attempts to attract black, coloured and indian students to apply, often in spite of the language policy.

A brief tour of the campus concluded the morning before we were hosted to a South African Braai for lunch.