NWU committed to excellence

The South African Board for People Practices (SABPP) is proud to be associated with the North-West University (NWU) and has found that the NWU has shown the greatest commitment to HR excellence, professionalism and quality. The NWU is also the only university to be represented on the SABPP board.

The SABPP is a professional body for HR practitioners, as well as the quality assurance body mandated by the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) to conduct quality assurance of HR and HRD learning provision. They also accredit the human resources and industrial psychology academic programmes of universities.

04/23/2012 - 10:21

NWU accountants balanced the figures

Institutional Office - Taking into consideration the student numbers and the pass rate of 88%, the North-West University’s (NWU) chartered accountant (CA) students who have recently completed their studies, fared better than ever in 2012 in Part 1 of the national qualifying examination of the South African Institute for Chartered Accountants (SAICA).

This pass rate was significantly higher than the national average of 78%. In a question about Financial Management and Management Accounting the NWU students did the best in the country. In doing so, they built on the achievements of previous NWU students who did the best in a variety of subjects on a number of occasions in the past.

The results put the NWU overall sixth in the country, with the University of Cape Town, Rhodes, Pretoria, Wits and Stellenbosch in the first five places.

04/19/2012 - 09:58

Academic mobility to strengthen African higher education

Institutional Office – The North-West University (NWU) is one of eight partners to take part in the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States academic mobility project funded by the European Union.

This exchange programme will encourage the exchange of knowledge, skills and experiences amongst partner universities through its comprehensive scholarships.
The eight partners are Ardhi (Tanzania), Buea (Cameroon), Hawassa (Ethiopia), Makerere (Uganda), KNUST (Ghana), NWU (South Africa), Polytechnic of Namibia (Namibia) and the University of the Free State (South Africa).

04/04/2012 - 11:49

NWU agreement with the Flemish Foundation for Traffic Science

Potchefstroom - The Faculty of Education Sciences recently introduced a Ride a Bicycle project at the Potchefstroom Campus as part of a “greener” campus.

The facility is part of a project, Mobility and the Environment, sponsored by the Flemish Foundation for Traffic Science (FFTS). The project consists of two legs, namely making bicycles available free of charge to move around on campus and a research project on the physical impact that cycling has on the human body.

A number of bicycles were purchased and they are available free of charge to students and staff to move quickly from one point to another on campus. The bicycles are parked in front of the Ampie kiosk near the former PCE main building (C6).

03/23/2012 - 07:49

Training urgently needed for combating nutrition-related deaths

Potchefstroom - The term "hunger" is described as the uncomfortable or painful sensation that is being caused as a result of the need for food. In rounded figures, there are currently nearly seven billion people in the world of which one in every seven is hungry – World Hunger Education Service.

Prof Johann Jerling, director of the Centre for Excellence in Nutrition at the North-West University’s Potchefstroom Campus, is of the opinion that more and more people are dying because Africa does not train enough people to act as ambassadors when it comes to nutritional issues. “Malnutrition and insufficient nutrition are already taking their toll and the trend over the past few years is that it is escalating.”

03/22/2012 - 07:53

Good news for South African languages

Potchefstroom - Worldwide, people are increasingly gaining access to electronic devices in a growing variety of languages. South Africans can already use ATMs and spelling checkers in their mother tongues.

For developments like these, language technology data and resources (such as electronic texts and word lists) are needed. The more data there is, the smarter the tool or machine will be, facilitating human-machine interaction through a particular language. For this reason, the Department of Arts and Culture (DAC) has established the National Centre for HLT (Human Language Technology) to develop reusable text and speech resources, and the Resource Management Agency (RMA) to manage and distribute these from one central point.

The Centre for Text Technology (CTexT®) at the North-West University has been appointed to set up the RMA over the next three years.

03/20/2012 - 09:14

Prof Martin Oosthuizen appointed to the HEQC

Institutional Office - Prof Martin Oosthuizen, the NWU‘s Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Teaching-Learning has been appointed to the Higher Education Quality Committee (HEQC) of the Council on Higher Education (CHE).

02/02/2012 - 08:49

Twenty hands, one heart

Potchefstroom - On Saturday 25 February twenty hands from one heart will be playing the piano in Potchefstroom!

Puk Arts, Artéma en Alabama Productions joined forces with 10 of the country’s top pianists to stage the concert “20 hands, 1 heart”. The concert is a benefit for the Puk alumna and former Alabama member Christa Steyn, who’s been battling cancer for the last 10 months.

01/18/2012 - 15:55

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Training urgently needed for combating nutrition-related deaths

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Prof Martin Oosthuizen appointed to the HEQC

Twenty hands, one heart