Faculties News
NWU academic and Fulbright Fellowship holder doing ground-breaking cancer research
Phenyo Mokgothu
North-West University (NWU) academic in the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, Prof Mulunda Mwanza, has been selected and awarded the prestigious Fulbright Visiting Scholar Fellowship, and is currently based at…
Non-fungible tokens: Why all the buzz?
Bertie Jacobs
A new acronym has entered our lexicon: NFT. NFT stands for non-fungible token, which, in itself, does not say very much. What NFTs are, is money. Big money. And it is changing the world of digital commerce.
Firstly, non-fungible means that an item cannot be…
Visually impaired Cornelle and her guide dog Vogue graduate
Bertie Jacobs
“‘Vogue’, as in the magazine,” is how Cornelle Leach describes the name of her pitch-black Labrador bitch. Vogue, who excitedly barked at her very first tortoise in the Botanical Gardens the other day. Five-year-old Vogue who recently grabbed a small boy’s ice cream from…
NWU researcher’s academic article among top cited
Phenyo Mokgothu
An academic article published by Prof Teboho Mosikari, an academic from the North-West University’s (NWU’s) School of Economic Sciences, is among the top-cited articles by Wiley, a multinational publishing company that specialises in academic…
NWU cyclist master of the track
The director of the Centre for Health and Human Performance (CHHP) at the North-West University (NWU), Prof Pieter Kruger, applied his knowledge of sport science and performance psychology brilliantly in winning the 20 km points race during the South African Track Cycling Championships at the Bellville Velodrome. He…
SADiLaR and NWU launches Digital Humanities Open Educational Resources Champions Initiative
The South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) and the UNESCO Chair on Multimodal Learning and Open Educational Resources (OER) at the North-West University (NWU) are having the first intake of their Digital Humanities OER Champions Initiative.
According to Prof Jako Olivier, NWU UNESCO Chair on Multimodal…
NWU academic says back to basics for TB programmes
Phenyo Mokgothu
Deaths from Tuberculosis (TB) have increased globally for the first time in over a decade. This is according to the World Health Organisation’s Global TB Report that was released in October 2021. The increase in deaths is due to “reduced access to TB diagnosis and…
Why add subjects to an already congested school curriculum, when a redesign of the entire curriculum is needed?
The word “digital” has a strong presence in virtually every sector these days, along with outcries for re-skilling and up-skilling of the workforce with digital literacy and skills for them to remain relevant for the future world of work. The Covid-19 pandemic has seemingly increased the pace and urgency of acquiring these skills.…
NWU academic walks away with SAIEE President’s Award
Mafumane Thlapi
Prof Leenta Grobler, an academic in the North-West University (NWU) Business School, was announced the recipient of the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers’ (SAIEE’s)…
NWU celebrates excellent SAICA results
Willie Du Plessis
With excellent results in the latest South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) exams, the North-West University (NWU) has again shown that it is among the best of the best for quality education in accounting.
The results were released on 25…