Breast is best

Breastfeeding is the foundation of life. This is the emphasis of this year’s Breastfeeding Week which is celebrated annually from 1 to 7 August across the globe, highlighting the advantages of breastfeeding for communities and countries.

According to Chantell Witten, a senior lecturer and breastfeeding expert at the North-West…

NWU now offers a postgraduate degree in higher education studies

The Faculty of Education has a brand new structured Master’s degree on offer. The structured Master’s degree in Higher Education Studies offers an opportunity to further the profile of individuals interested in teaching and learning in the higher education environment.

Why enrol for this degree?

Academics at institutions of…

NWU and ministerial delegation reach out to the community

Prof. Ewert Kleynhans, an academic from the North-West University, and a ministerial delegation recently visited Manthe in Taung as part of a community outreach project.

Prof Kleynhans represented the NWU’s School of Economics and Council of the South Academy of Science and Art.

The ministerial delegation was headed by Ms…

Cream of the crop network with industry

On 18 July 2018 a handful of the best engineering students from the North-West University (NWU) were selected to attend an exclusive networking event with members from Omnia Holdings, an international chemical manufacturing company.

Mechanical, electrical and chemical engineering students who are in their final year of postgraduate…

Hundreds attend NWU Engineering Career Fair

The North-West University’s (NWU) Career Centre and the Faculty of Engineering recently hosted their annual Engineering Career Fair.

NWU engineering students came out in their numbers to attend this year’s fair that took place on 19 July 2018 at the Faculty of Engineering on the campus in Potchefstroom.

A total of 13…

NWU student crowned Miss Eco Africa

A beauty pageant is defined as a competition that judges its contestants on physical beauty. However, over the past years these pageants have taken a different turn.

The North-West University’s (NWU’s) Izelle Van Vuuren set out to proof that there is more to being a pageant queen than just beauty, and her fresh outlook on life can…

NWU dietetic students do prevention

Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food. A group of third-year dietetic students from the North-West University (NWU) proved this statement true when they participated in the Dietitians Week initiative.

This year’s initiative, aimed at creating awareness around the dietetics profession and the services…

Easier treatment on the way for diabetes and some cancers

Imagine a world where diabetics no longer have to inject themselves and where radio-pharmaceutical drugs against certain types of cancer can be administered orally. These are some of envisaged outcomes of research at the North-West University’s Department of Science and Technology (DST)/NWU Pre-Clinical Drug Development Platform (PCDDP).…

NWU is banking on a new method

Globally, banks are faced with ATM crimes, system security breaches and other types of fraud. These operational risks have to be carefully managed in order to minimise losses, with regulators requiring banks to set aside capital to safeguard themselves against unexpected losses that may occur. Many models have been developed to enable banks…

Talking export opportunities at the Agbiz Congress 2018

With populations expanding in many parts of the world and rapid urbanisation straining countries’ resources, the need for food and food security has never been so great. While this has created enormous opportunities for farmers in many parts of the world, including South Africa, our agricultural sector is facing significant challenges – not…