Researcher sees opportunities, not obstacles

There is a general way of thinking among most hopeful undergraduate students that should the traditional way of paying for tertiary education not be available to them, they are left without the possibility of perusing an exciting career.

An inspiring young academic from the North-West University’s (NWU’s) Faculty of Health Sciences…

Board game helps accounting students make the leap to the workplace

Curiosity stimulates the brain, making board games the ideal learning tool. Accounting students will soon discover this when playing a new board game designed especially for them.

Creative approaches to teaching and learning are increasingly being used throughout higher education and beyond. One of the trend setters in what is known as table-…

Research is Verona Leendertz’ game, and innovation is her play

It takes Google only 0,50 seconds to respond to the search terms: ‘Verona Leendertz’. And from the search results it is clear that Prof Verona Leendertz is passionate about professional development – be it that of her own as a higher education expert in training and development, or the growth of future researchers within the North-West…

Water researchers are on the move

The North-West University (NWU) is not only dedicated to achieving academic excellence and conducting ground-breaking research, but also to creating lasting partnerships.

The NWU’s unit for Environmental Science and Management and Bauhaus-Universität Weimar in Germany have built a rock-solid partnership that has resulted in…

NWU women shine at prestigious science awards

North-West University (NWU) women continue to shine during Women’s Month and their extraordinary achievements do not go unnoticed.

On 15 August a researcher from the NWU took home a South African Women in Science award and a student received the DST-Albertina Sisulu Fellowship award for her doctoral studies at the prestigious award…

Africa’s first language centre launched to promote indigenous languages

At last! Hard work and dedication finally paid off. The government-established South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) was officially launched on 7 August 2019 on the North-West University’s (NWU’s) campus in Potchefstroom.

SADiLaR is a platform that creates and manages digital resources and software supporting…

Wellness of North West communities is a priority

It is a disturbing fact that approximately 61% of the North West population is classified as impoverished. This alarming figure is the biggest contributing factor to the inadequate wellness of communities in this province, and according to the government it is an important social, economic and political developmental challenge.

The…

NWU academic is passionate about multivariate analysis

North-West University (NWU) academic and deputy dean in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences Prof Ntebo Moroke voiced her intention to contribute to the literature on multivariate analysis methods during her inaugural lecture at the campus in Mahikeng.

Titled “On multivariate analysis of high-dimensional data”, Prof…

Why are so few South African women exclusively breastfeeding their infants?

Women all over the world know how important breastfeeding is, especially exclusively breastfeeding infants younger than six months old. Unfortunately, only 32% of South African women are doing it.

In light of International Breastfeeding Week taking place from 1 to 7 August and themed “Empowering parents, enable breastfeeding”,…

NWU celebrates National Science Week with talk on Mendeleev Periodic Table

The United Nations General Assembly, during its 74th Plenary Meeting on 20 December 2017, proclaimed 2019 as the International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements (IYPT 2019).

As we commemorate the 150th anniversary of the establishment of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements by the Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleev,…