Student life News
NWU launches disability awareness campaign: Take a few steps in my shoes
Mafumane Tlhapi
The Student Campus Council in collaboration with the Disability Rights Unit on the North-West University’s (NWU’s) Mahikeng Campus recently held a two-day disability awareness event.
Themed “Take a few steps in my shoes”, the main objective of the…
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 Facing Race Week: What do you have to say?
By Zenoyise John
The North-West University’s (NWU’s) Faculty of Humanities will host Facing Race Week (FRW) 2022, a mixture of virtual and in-person activities in which race and race-related issues will be discussed, from 11-14 April 2022.
…Eagles keep door to semi-finals open
Bertie Jacobs
Oh my goodness, it is going to be a very close call. On Monday evening, 4 April the Eagles kept their playoff hopes alive in a sopping wet Bloemfontein by beating the CUT Ixias by 33–14.
This was a fitting…
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…
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) President’s Award during the institute…
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…
Eagles sink Madibaz
Bertie Jacobs
An Eagle does not have fangs, but they do have claws. However, should the NWU Eagles have had the former, they probably would have used them on the NMMU Madibaz too. On Monday evening on the Fanie du Toit sports grounds the Eagles thrashed…