The North-West University’s (NWU's) Safety, Health and Environment department recently organised a comprehensive two-day training workshop to enhance workplace safety and promote a culture of health and wellbeing.

The workshop’s aim was to equip permanent employees with the necessary theoretical and practical knowledge to qualify as safety, health and environment representatives (SHE reps).

According to safety coordinator Abea Motaung the training covered various aspects of the role and responsibilities of a SHE rep.

North-West University (NWU) academic Prof Oladapo Aremu recently received the Economic Botany Excellence Award (EBEA) at the joint conference of the Society for Economic Botany (SEB) and the Society of Ethnobiology at Emory University Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

The EBEA – also called the Mid-Career Excellence Award – is made annually to an individual whose early career has substantially advanced economic botany or ethnobotany by teaching, publishing, or practical work.

Retired professor Jan Buscop donated 4 paintings to NWU and these artworks will be hosted in the library.

More about retired professor Jan Buscop

Prof Buscop was born in the Netherlands and emigrated in 1978 to South Africa. He completed his PhD at UNIBO and was appointed as senior lecturer in 1993 and retired in 2019. Currently he specialised in estate, tax and retirement planning and assisting many university colleagues with their retirement planning.

By Menziwa Msibi

Academics from the North-West University’s (NWU’s) Faculty of Education, in collaboration with the Department of Basic Education (DBE), recently participated in an Entrepreneurial Learning Workshop and Employability Task Team (EEETT).

The purpose of the workshop was to contribute to a shared understanding of what entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial learning is about. It also aimed to help educators think about how they can best prepare learners for the requirements of the DBE’s Entrepreneurship in Schools sector plan.

North-West University PhD candidate Ntokozo Happy Msiza is one of only four young people that have been selected to represent South Africa at an agricultural summer school at the University of São Paulo in Brazil.

In a 4IR world, the North-West University (NWU) is ensuring that learners at disadvantaged schools are not left behind and have the tools and knowledge to meet the challenges of the ever-changing world of work.

To this end, the Faculty of Education at the NWU’s Mahikeng Campus has initiated a community project, “A service-learning project for schools’ pedagogical integration of ICTs”.

Have you ever pondered the significance of a monument by the roadside? Perhaps you have stopped in a town on a road trip and wondered where the town's points of interest were. Travellers once used guidebooks and maps, but those days are long gone thanks to apps such as the Road Trip SA app.

By collaborating with Emile Coetzee, a North-West University (NWU) historian, South African company Value Apps Pty Ltd developed this app to help travellers explore the fascinating and mysterious places of interest throughout southern Africa.

The North-West University's (NWU’s) Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences recently played host to the fourth International Conference of the HR Division of the Academy of Management (HRIC2023).

Held at the Sun City Convention Centre, the conference was jointly organised by the NWU’s School of Industrial Psychology and Human Resources Management and the WorkWell research unit.

The world of nuclear science is full of possibilities and the Centre for Applied Radiation Science and Technology (CARST) at the Mahikeng Campus of the North-West University (NWU) is doing its part to ensure a better life for all.

To mark Youth Month, CARST, in collaboration with the National Nuclear Regulator, headed to Setlagole in North West and Kuruman in the Northern Cape on 15 and 16 June to speak to learners about the field of nuclear science, create awareness about nuclear safety and encourage learners to choose careers in this industry.

The research unit for Education and Human Rights in Diversity (Edu-HRight) recently organised a significant discourse in collaboration with the Legal Perspectives, Governance and Democracy research subarea and the Education Law subject group at the North-West University (NWU).