It is the year 2000. The share price of a multi-billion dollar Fortune 500 company peaks at $90. Their recruitment strategy reads: Hire the best, fire the rest. At the time it seemed to work, only it didn’t. That company was Enron.

The North-West University (NWU) is passionate about entrepreneurship and proudly acts as an enabler for the next generation of successful entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs such as Nkateko Rafael Khoza.

Prof Mirna Nel is deeply concerned about the state of South African education. She made this troubling declaration during her recent inaugural lecture as full professor at the North-West University’s (NWU’s) campus in Vanderbijlpark.  

On 12 September 2018 undergraduate female law students from the North-West University’s (NWU’s) campus in Vanderbijlpark had the opportunity to learn more about Women Leading in Law (WOLELA), a national network of women lawyers.

The Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences at the North-West University (NWU), together with the Social Sciences Research Society in Turkey recently hosted the 9^th rendition of the International Conference on Social Sciences.

For the second year running the North-West University (NWU) – in collaboration with the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) – hosted a very successful Student Entrepreneurship Week.

The North-West University’s (NWU’s) campus in Vanderbijlpark and the Cancer Association of South Africa (CANSA) celebrated a momentous milestone when they took hands to host the sixth annual Vanderbijlpark region CANSA Relay for Life event from 15 to 16 September 2018.

On Wednesday, 19 September 2018, the Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene revealed in parliament that more than half of South Africa’s municipal managers and chief financial officers (CFOs) do not have the minimum qualifications as required by legislation.

The Optentia Research Day that has the North-West University’s (NWU’s) campus in Vanderbijlpark abuzz with excitement, will welcome a familiar face “back home”. Prof Linda Theron, previously part of the university’s Faculty of Education, will join Optentia as an extraordinary professor.

Prof Etienne Barnard, a research professor at the North-West University’s (NWU’s) research niche area Multilingual Speech Technologies (MuST), recently travelled to the United States for a research visit to the Indiana University Bloomington.