Final-year students from the School of Chemical and Minerals Engineering at the North-West University (NWU) recently had the opportunity to show that their course entails much more than poring over their books.
It is a well-known fact that the North-West University (NWU) has delivered world-class international athletes such as Caster Semenya, Willem Coertzen, Elroy Gelant, Sunette Viljoen, Khotso Mokoena, Lood de Jager and Akker van der Merwe, to name but a few.
“Universities are becoming too vocational. There is too big a focus on jobs for today and not on jobs for tomorrow.”
As Dr Cobus van der Walt slowly rises, the muttering in Room 305 is replaced by a quiet reverence.
The Institute of Psychology and Wellbeing at the North-West University (NWU) and Autism South Africa (A;SA) will soon host their fourth Autism Symposium.
With about 6,2 million unemployed people between the ages of 15 and 64 years in South Africa, the North-West University (NWU) is determined to do its bit to decrease these alarming statistics.
Two players from the North-West University’s (NWU’s) Soccer Institute will fly the university and South African flag at the World Student Games in Naples, Italy from 3 July to 14 July 2019.
On Tuesday, 4 June 2019, the South African Revenue Service (SARS) announced that it has increased the tax return threshold from R350 000 to R500 000. Individuals earning less than R500 000 will not need to submit personal income tax returns (ITR12).
More than 10 000 prospective students and their parents attended the 2019 rendition of the North-West University’s (NWU’s) open days across its three campuses.