Human Interest

NWU hosts annual lecture on academic freedom

The North-West University (NWU) hosted its annual lecture on academic freedom on 15 September 2021. The lecture was a hybrid event hosted at the NWU’s Council Chambers in Potchefstroom and via the online platform Zoom.

The guest speaker for this year’s lecture was Prof. Kwadwo Appiagyei-Atua, an associate professor from the School of Law at the University of Ghana in Legon, Accra.

The topic was “The coloniality of higher education in Africa, the decolonisation agenda, and academic freedom”.

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Study into large-scale potential to store renewable hydrogen

Power fluctuations sometimes associated with renewable energy resources could become a thing of the past through research under way at the North-West University (NWU) on new and better ways to store hydrogen.

The HySA Centre of Competence (Coc) at the NWU explains the storage problem as follows:

Electrical energy produced from renewable energy sources such as wind and solar is used to generate hydrogen through the process known as water electrolysis.

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