Proposed financial decision-making model to guard against accounting shames

With the recent accounting disgraces suffered by KPMG and Steinhoff still fresh in South Africans’ minds, Dr Matthys (Thys) Swanepoel from the North-West University’s (NWU’s) School of Accounting Sciences, proposes a new integrated financial decision-making model using the principle of lean accounting.

Dr Swanepoel developed the new model…

Research contributes to the understanding of key sectors contributing to LED

A doctoral research study which is hailed for contributing profoundly to the field of Local Economic Development (LED), has found that community service, trade, construction, finance and electricity sectors would contribute most to economic development and growth in the Limpopo province’s Capricorn region.

In his study, Analysis of key…

Findings of PhD study to empower Malawian policy-makers

The choice of food security measures has a significant value in identifying the food security status of a household, especially with regard to female-headed households in the South Eastern region of Malawi.

This is according to the research findings of Hannah Mayamiko Dunga, who recently obtained her doctoral degree during the Autumn…

Faculty of Engineering is bridging the gender gap

Innovation is blind to gender and special skills does not allow for prejudice. Nowhere was this more evident than at the third iteration of the Faculty of Engineering at the North-West University’s (NWU’s) Femmegineering workshop.

Participants from North West, Gauteng and Free State was shown why a career in engineering might just…

Double PhD pride for Leoni van der Vaart

Leoni van der Vaart is a dynamic 33-year old researcher who is blazing a trail of excellence – nationally and internationally – in the field of industrial psychology.

Leoni received her PhD in industrial psychology during the recent autumn graduation ceremony at the North-West University’s (NWU’s) campus in Vanderbijlpark. Her PhD is part…

Innovation in public administration is Prof Hofisi’s motto

It was Albert Einstein who said: “If at first, an idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.” Prof Costa Hofisi from the Faculty of Humanities of the North-West University’s (NWU’s) campus in Vanderbijlpark fully agrees with this statement. During his recent inaugural lecture, he argued the value of such “absurd” ideas, namely innovation…

Investor behaviour the focus of noteworthy doctoral degree

During the recent Autumn Graduation Ceremony of the North-West University’s (NWU’s) campus in Vanderbijlpark, the degree Philosophiae Doctor in economic and management sciences was awarded to Zandri Dickason.

In her thesis “Modelling investor behaviour in the South African context”, Zandri developed a model to analyse investor behaviour…

NWU participates in African World Heritage Day commemoration

The North-West University’s (NWU’s) Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) recently took part in the two-day African World Heritage Day celebrations, hosted by the provincial Department of Rural, Environment, and Agricultural Development at the Taung Skull Fossil Site.

The theme of the celebrations was “Celebrating our African Heritage…

A+ for top performing educators

What is the value of an effective and compassionate educator? The answer is simple: such educators are priceless, especially within the South African schooling system.

During the recent Autumn Graduation Ceremony of the North-West University’s (NWU’s) campus in Vanderbijlpark, four graduates in the field of Educational Sciences were…

NWU to fly flag high at international honours society summit

The Mahikeng chapter of the North-West University’s (NWU’s) Golden Key International Honours Society is gearing up to attend the Golden Key New Jersey City 2018 Leadership Summit.

The summit will take place from 29 June until 1 July 2018 in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the United States of America.

The NWU Golden Key team…