Board game helps accounting students to make the leap
Curiosity stimulates the brain, making board games the ideal learning tool. Accounting students will soon discover this when playing a new board game designed especially for them. Creative approaches to teaching and learning are increasingly being used throughout higher education and beyond. One of the trend setters in what is known as table-top game design is the research unit for Technology Enhanced Learning and Innovative Education and Training in South Africa (TELIT-SA), located at the NWU. read more |
Research points the way to turn waste into biofuel
One man's trash can truly be another man's treasure. The NWU, together with Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (BUW) in Germany, is working on ground-breaking research that will reduce waste and provide clean renewable energy. The waste they are planning to use is manure, sewage and faecal sludge, which will be transformed into biogas. This four-year long research study is led by Prof Carlos Bezuidenhout from the NWU's Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management and Prof Jörg Londong from BUW. read more |
PhD graduate's research focuses on the Tswana goat
Animal health and production is usually a challenge in South African rural communities and particularly among Tswana goat farmers in the North West Province. For this reason, NWU technician and recent PhD graduate Mpho Tsheole set out to find a solution. She conducted research on how supplementary dietary protein affects the growth and reproductive health of Tswana goats. This indigenous goat breed is a multi-coloured, medium-size breed with long lopping ears, a short coarse hair structure, predominantly bearded and horned. read more |
