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Ethics Training
2025-09-17 Research ethics training of researchers (Principal investigators, supervisors/promoters, co-supervisors/co-promotors, Master’s and PhD students and other research team members) has become a requirement of the Department of Health and the National Health…http://humanities.nwu.ac.za/music/intro-music-research
Introduction to Music Research
2025-01-07 Prof Ewie Erasmus The purpose of this module is to help students improve their basic reading and writing skills, as well as their ability to access and interpret sources so that their academic writing skills can be developed. The…http://education.nwu.ac.za/community-based-educational-research-comber/strands
Subareas
2026-02-03 [accordion collapsed] LANGUAGE LITERACY LITERATURE INITIATIVE FOR EMPOWERMENT (³LIFE) IN COMMUNITIES Subarea Leader: Prof C Nel Subarea Members: Prof A Oduaran, Prof C Botha, Dr M Meyer, Prof K Kaiser, Dr S…http://news.nwu.ac.za/tool-talent-risk-management-may-retain-academics
Tool for talent risk management may retain academics
2018-10-29 The voluntary turnover rate of academics ranges between 41 and 63% and at least 6 000 new academics are required to replace retiring academics within the next five years. These research statistics and estimates do not look good, do they? Fortunately a…http://news.nwu.ac.za/south-african-web-based-platform-speech-transcription
A South African web-based platform for speech transcription
2017-03-29 With 11 official languages in South Africa, finding an effective yet affordable way to transcribe speech to text was never going to be easy, but that is set to change with some innovative thinking from researchers who are creating an open source web-based…http://news.nwu.ac.za/board-game-helps-accounting-students-make-leap-workplace
Board game helps accounting students make the leap to the workplace
2019-08-29 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…http://news.nwu.ac.za/why-constitution-will-always-trump-executive
Why the Constitution will always Trump the Executive
2022-08-19 The following article represents an opinion piece by Dr Ilyayambwa Mwanawina, an academic staff member of the North-West University’s Vanderbijlpark Campus. Dr Mwanawina specialises in the fields of regional integration, international law, good governance…http://news.nwu.ac.za/nwus-stylish-student-favourite-fit
NWU’s stylish student is a favourite fit
2021-10-25 North-West University (NWU) final-year BAdmin student Mbulelo Mbiphi was announced as one of the winners of the South African men’s fashion magazine GQ’s Best Dressed Awards for 2021 on 16 October 2021. GQ’s Best Dressed is an annual competition…http://news.nwu.ac.za/mother-and-son-doing-first-year-university-together
Mother and son doing first year at university together
2021-03-31 With a 25-year age gap between them, mother and son Susan and Janu Fouche have both been accepted to do their first year at the Potchefstroom Campus of the North-West University (NWU). Forty-three-year-old Susan is studying towards a social work…http://news.nwu.ac.za/nwu-alumnas-dream-coming-true
NWU alumna’s dream is coming true
2021-02-16 Tumelo ‘Melo’ Mthethwa, a North-West University (NWU) alumna, will be releasing a song with one of South Africa’s biggest female hip-hop artists, Fifi Cooper, and producer GreenFingures. The song titled “Dream Come True” is an emotional expression of a…http://news.nwu.ac.za/gandhi-fleischack-and-their-north-west-university-connection
Gandhi, Fleischack and their North-West University connection
2022-10-26 He is revered as one of the greatest human rights champions and spiritual leaders of all time. Mahatma Gandhi, who advocated non-violent resistance and influenced civil disobedience protests for generations after him, is an international icon with a special…http://news.nwu.ac.za/nwus-vanderbijlpark-campus-enactus-team-president-compete-international-honours
NWU's Vanderbijlpark Campus Enactus team president to compete for international honours
2022-08-29 Jodey Adrian Foster, president of the Enactus team on the North-West University’s (NWU’s) Vanderbijlpark Campus, is over the moon. This is after Ford selected his team to attend the Enactus international competition in Puerto Rico. The NWU participated in…http://news.nwu.ac.za/nwu-historian-maps-way-south-african-heritage
NWU historian maps the way to South African heritage
2021-12-02 An academic and historian of the North-West University (NWU) is part of a community engagement project that documents all South Africa’s heritage sites and places of interest (POIs) by listing the location and explaining the meaning of all South African POIs…http://news.nwu.ac.za/stable-gnu-together-policy-certainty-will-maximise-business-confidence
Stable GNU together with policy certainty will maximise business confidence
2024-06-27 After having held highly successful free, fair and peaceful watershed elections on 29 May, South Africa has now embarked on the formation of a Government of National Unity (GNU) to navigate an election outcome in which no single party achieved a majority. To…http://news.nwu.ac.za/criminologist-says-tenderpreneur-calls-minister-groenewalds-dismissal-unjustified-unwarranted
Criminologist says tenderpreneur calls for Minister Groenewald’s dismissal unjustified, unwarranted
2025-10-10 • Dr Casper Lötter: “Tenderpreneurs only care for their profits and have no regard for the crises in public safety that they have unleashed.” • “It is imperative that all South Africans resist the revival of this American monster known as the Prison-…http://news.nwu.ac.za/10-point-plan-and-politics-coordination
The 10-point plan and the politics of coordination
2025-10-13 By Prof Joseph Sekhampu When President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the 10-Point Economic Action Plan at the ANC’s gathering, the nation sighed – not in defiance but in weary recognition. We have become a people fluent in reform but starved of renewal. The…http://news.nwu.ac.za/how-nwu-engineering-healthier-south-africa
This is how the NWU is engineering a healthier South Africa
2025-11-20 • Engineers cannot fix healthcare alone, and clinicians cannot carry the burden without systems support. The NWU is bridging this gap. • Healthcare systems engineering can be seen as an umbrella term where the healthcare habitat is viewed as a complex…http://news.nwu.ac.za/celebrating-15-years-finnish-south-african-atmospheric-collaboration-nwu
Celebrating 15 Years of Finnish–South African Atmospheric Collaboration at NWU
2025-12-10 When we think about anniversaries, 15 years is traditionally known as a crystal anniversary, and the symbolism of crystal is both beautiful and unique. Crystal represents clarity and transparency, reflecting the trust and openness that have grown over the…http://www.nwu.ac.za/nwu-excellence-awards/community-engagement-awards
Community Engagement Awards
2025-10-21 At North-West University, community engagement lies at the core of our identity, reflecting the Scholarship of Engagement in action. More than charity, it’s about genuine collaboration with our partners to address shared challenges and promote an ethic of…http://news.nwu.ac.za/red-meat-and-its-role-south-africa