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A new vision in higher education is coming to life!

STADIO celebrated the planting of the first tree on the Durbanville Campus. Set to be a comprehensive facility with state of the art buildings and world class sports stadiums, this campus will be the STADIO showroom in the Western Cape. 

Members of the STADIO community: High school leaders, school principals, partners, investors and members of the press were present to commemorate this mammoth undertaking. 

Enjoy a selection a of images from the event held on 06 November 2024.

VIEW OF SQUARE AND BLOCKS B (behind) AND C (front)  

SIDE VIEW OF BLOCK B

AERIAL VIEW

STADIO Higher Education is strengthening its international academic footprint – but not for the sake of numbers. The institution is pursuing a deliberate model of purposeful internationalisation, selecting global relationships for the value they bring to academic quality, curriculum relevance, research, community engagement, staff development and, above all, the student learning experience. That commitment to quality has been externally affirmed: STADIO holds full institutional accreditation from the British Accreditation Council (BAC), an important international endorsement of the institution and its standards. STADIO is also a full institutional member of the International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE), connecting it with a global community committed to accessible, inclusive and quality distance education – recognition that speaks directly to STADIO’s substantial distance-learning footprint and its purpose of widening access to quality higher education.

For STADIO, however, international recognition is only one part of the story. “Internationalisation must create value. We are not interested in collecting flags, signing agreements that live in filing cabinets, or measuring success by the number of international partners we can list,” says STADIO Chief Academic Officer, Dr Divya Singh. “Our question is much simpler: what will this relationship enable our students and academics to do, learn, experience or contribute that they could not have done as effectively on their own?”

This philosophy is increasingly evident across STADIO’s academic Schools. International seminars, research collaborations, exchanges, and partnerships are underway in the Schools of Policing & Law Enforcement, Law, Education, Fashion, Arts & Design, and Engineering & Architecture, connecting academics and students with international expertise while keeping each activity relevant to its discipline and curriculum. A particular highlight is the School of Education’s long-standing student exchange with the Queen Maud University College (QMUC) in Norway, which allows students to experience education in another context and return with perspectives that enrich their professional development. Its impact reaches well beyond academic exposure: one Norwegian student described her time in South Africa as profoundly reshaping her understanding of education, community, culture and her own assumptions about the world. Such exchanges move learning beyond the classroom and into lived experience – encountering difference, reflecting on privilege and context, building relationships across cultures, and reconsidering what it means to teach in an interconnected world. “The most powerful exchanges are not those that merely expose students to another country; they are those that change how students see themselves, their profession and the communities they will ultimately serve,” says Braan de Villiers, Head of the School of Education.

STADIO’s partnership with Brock University in Canada, led by Dr Kemi Adebayo of the School of Education, signals the direction the institution intends to take. Beyond academic and research collaboration, recent interdisciplinary work has brought the Schools of Engineering & Architecture and Education together with Brock to focus on community engagement. The significance lies not in the partnership’s international character but in its interdisciplinary, applied nature: it connects academics, students, disciplines and communities around shared challenges, showing how international relationships can move beyond signed agreements to become platforms for learning, scholarship and tangible engagement.

STADIO also maintains a long-standing relationship with Globethics in Geneva, an international organisation focused on ethics in higher education and society – reinforced by STADIO’s Chief Academic Officer serving as its First Vice President. Together, these developments support an internationalisation agenda that STADIO intends to grow selectively rather than indiscriminately.

STADIO's approach is based on a simple principle: internationalisation should serve the academic project. Future partnerships and initiatives will therefore increasingly be considered according to the contribution they can make to:

• enriching curricula and exposing students to international knowledge and practice;
• creating meaningful international learning and exchange opportunities for students;
• strengthening academic and professional development opportunities for staff;
• supporting collaborative and interdisciplinary research;
• extending community-engaged scholarship across national boundaries;
• connecting STADIO's academic disciplines with international professional and industry networks;
• bringing international expertise into STADIO classrooms and academic conversations; and
• creating reciprocal opportunities through which STADIO's own academics and students can contribute South African and African knowledge and perspectives internationally.

This approach reflects STADIO's broader commitment to ensuring that its qualifications remain responsive to the needs of students, society and industry.

“Internationalisation should not take us away from our South African purpose; it should help us fulfil it better,” Singh says. “Our students should encounter the world as part of their STADIO education, but they should also recognise that they have knowledge, experiences and perspectives that are valuable to the world. Internationalisation must be reciprocal.”

Bringing the world into the STADIO learning experience

STADIO’s strategy also recognises that meaningful international exposure does not always require students to travel. Visiting international academics, joint research, virtual collaborations, shared academic events and collaborative community-engagement initiatives extend global learning to far more students and staff, which is important for an institution whose purpose is to widen access to quality higher education. Internationalisation at STADIO is therefore designed to complement accessibility, not compete with it, creating a multiplier effect in which a single relationship enriches curricula, research, teaching and professional networks across the institution.

From international presence to international impact

STADIO’s BAC accreditation, ICDE membership, Globethics relationship, student exchanges and expanding School-level collaborations mark an important stage in the institution’s development, but international recognition is never the end in itself. The real measure is impact: what students learned, what academics developed, what research was generated, which communities benefited, and how curricula were enriched.

At the same time, global awareness must never come at the expense of rootedness. STADIO wants graduates who can work across cultures and hold their own in international professional and academic settings, yet who remain firmly situated in the South African and African context – engaging the world from a position of confidence in their own identity, knowledge and contribution. Internationalisation at STADIO, therefore, remains reciprocal - its students learn from the world without assuming that knowledge travels in only one direction, because South African and African scholarship, innovation, and ways of understanding have much to offer globally. “We want our graduates to be globally aware without becoming disconnected from who they are,” Singh concludes. “They must be able to enter any international classroom, workplace or conversation with curiosity and humility – and with confidence that they have something important to contribute.” As STADIO Holdings CEO Chris Vorster puts it, STADIO’s international footprint will be measured not by how far it has travelled or how many agreements it has signed, but by the difference those relationships make to the quality of its education, the opportunities open to its students and staff, and its ability to contribute meaningfully from South Africa to the world.