NWU academic weighs in on prospects and challenges of District Development Model

Phenyo Mokgothu

North-West University (NWU) academic in the subject group Developmental Studies, Gaopalelwe Mpolokeng says the success of the government’s District Development Model (DDM) lies in cooperation.

 Approved by the South African cabinet on 21 August 2019, the DDM is a government approach to…

Understanding the world of homeless people suffering from mental illness

Phenyo Mokgothu

Globally, one of the main causes of street homelessness is chronic mental illness, and South Africa is no different. Researchers from the North-West University (NWU) have some recommendations on how the plight of these vulnerable people can be…

New grant to target global killer

Bertie Jacobs

Malaria is a global killer, a disease that destroys human lives and the economies of countries in which it thrives.

According to the latest figures by the World Health Organization (WHO), there were 241 million cases of malaria in 2020, with an estimated 627 000…

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…

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 academic selected to the Global Young Academy

Phenyo Mokgothu

North-West University (NWU) academic from the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Centre, Prof Adeyemi Oladapo Aremu, has been selected to the Global Young Academy (GYA) from June 2022 until May 2027.

Selection for…

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’s nuclear research makes a global impact

Groundbreaking work, demanding years of teaching and learning and specialised research have over the past decade and a half led to the North-West University (NWU) now being described as the South African pioneer in the sophisticated field of nuclear engineering. This follows after the recent completion of the maximum…

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.…