Climate change is not something that happens at a distance, to other regions and other people, but is a phenomenon that has an impact on everyone, everywhere. This is a lesson that grade 7 learners are being exposed to through a research project involving researchers from the North-West University’s (NWU's) campus in Vanderbijlpark.

The Autumn Graduation Ceremony of the North-West University’s (NWU’s) campus in Vanderbijlpark saw the Centre for Applied Risk Management (UARM) celebrate the graduation of five MARM graduates. These graduates represent the third cohort of MARM alumni since the inception of the two-year part-time programme in 2014.

The North-West University’s Unit for Continuing Education (UCE), and the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences recently joined forces with the Culture, Art, Tourism, Hospitality, and Sport Sector Education and Training Authority (CATHSSETA) to facilitate a skills training programme within the hospitality sector. The short learning programme was aimed at empowering unemployed youth.

If you graduated from the North-West University (NWU) and live in and around Johannesburg, Gauteng, make sure to diarise 23 May 2018. The university, through its Stakeholder Relations Directorate, will be hosting a social gathering for alumni at the Capital Hotel in Sandhurst, Sandton.

Ask any seasoned entrepreneur and they will tell you: there is no magic recipe for success. Yes, the potential rewards of business ownership are many, but so are the challenges.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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, to be utilised in bettering public administration.