Health and Wellness Sciences honour teaching excellence
CELEBRATING EXCELLENCE: The winners of the Faculty of Health and Wellness Sciences Teaching Excellence Awards.
Monday, 20 October 2025
The Faculty of Health and Wellness Sciences’ Teaching Excellence Awards ceremony shone a spotlight on the faculty’s commitment to outstanding education and honoured exceptional staff members.
The event, which was recently held at the Cape Town Hotel School, showcased the best teaching and learning practices in the faculty, under the theme: In Harmony: Honouring the heart and science of teaching excellence.
Assistant Dean, Dr Lloyd Christopher, said the event was not just about recognising the recipients but everyone who contributed to their success, “whether faculty office, whether it be the heads of departments, and all the other technical administrative staff that make a really very difficult job possible and so we acknowledge all of that”.
The winners were:
- Clinical Instructor recognition award: Elroy Cameron (Emergency Medical Sciences)
- Senior Lab Technician: Fadia Alexander (Biomedical Sciences)
- Lab Technician: Abdulraoef Ganey (Ophthalmic Sciences)
- Faculty Office Award: Karin Buckle (Faculty Manager)
- Faculty Teaching Excellence Award: John Meyer (Emergency Medical Sciences)
In her closing remarks, Faculty Teaching and Learning coordinator, Anthea Pinto-Prins, said the theme of the awards, “invites us to reflect not only on what we teach, but how and why we teach”.
“Together, you create conditions in which students grow cognitively, professionally, and personally. In this way, the heart of teaching, our care, empathy, and responsiveness are inseparable from the science of teaching, our pedagogical frameworks, disciplinary knowledge, and intentional design. Harmony is not a soft ideal. It is a rigorous, ethical balancing act that ensures no student is left behind and no knowledge is left inaccessible.”
Written by Ilse Fredericks
Email: Frederickskennediji@cput.ac.za
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