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2020-11-18 .bg { padding: 1em; color: white; background-color: black; clear: left; text-align: center; } .btn-group-vertical { width: 100%; } StatCon 2020 On-line Workshop 9 November, 2020 – 2 December, 2020 …https://natural-sciences.nwu.ac.za/microbiology/world-hepatitis-day
World Hepatitis Day
2022-07-22 [accordion] What is World Hepatitis Day? World Hepatitis Day (WHD) takes places every year on 28 July bringing the world together under a single theme to raise awareness of the global burden of viral hepatitis and to influence real change. In 2022…Busy year for NWU Vanderbijlpark alumni
2018-03-13 At the heart of the North-West University (NWU) lies a distinctive spirit of a meaningful shared sense of belonging. Add to this the pride and loyalty of the members of the extended university community and you understand why year-on-year graduates go out…Newsletter Issue #1G WDSL
2020-11-18 NEWSLETTER ISSUE #1/2015 WTO dispute settlement lecture Dr Gustav Brink, an expert in WTO dispute settlement, visited TRADE on 13 October 2015 to deliver a guest lecture as part of the International Trade Law (ECON 622) honours course. In his …https://news.nwu.ac.za/varsity-netball-must-win-nwu
Varsity Netball: Must-win for NWU
2018-09-21 The North-West University’s Varsity Netball team is looking to end the group stages of this years’ tournament on the same high as how they started. Coach Elsunet du Plessis’ team beat UJ 77-27 in their opening match and have since won four out of their six…https://news.nwu.ac.za/nwu-makes-varsity-hockey-final
NWU makes Varsity Hockey final
2019-05-16 There is less than a minute of playing time left. Carli Pretorius finds the back of Kovsies’ goal box and the home crowd in Potchefstroom goes wild. This is how the North-West University (NWU) secured its spot in the final of the Varsity Hockey tournament…https://www.nwu.ac.za/gender-based-violence-awareness-campaign
Gender-based violence awareness campaign
2019-03-07 AIM: To create awareness on gender based violence for students and staff at the NWU Potchefstroom campus so that we can have a safe Campus Gender based violence (GBV) continues to be a problem in South Africa and the North-West University is no…https://www.nwu.ac.za/date/distance-learning-revolution-adapting-digitisation-and-4ir
Distance Learning (R)Evolution: Adapting to digitisation and 4IR
2021-10-21 The Unit for Open Distance Learning at the North-West University invites you to register for our upcoming virtual colloquium.An opportunity to explore teaching and learning experiences from the lecturer, student and institutional perspective as well as how…https://www.nwu.ac.za/date/school-industrial-psychology-human-resource-management-masters-webinar
School of Industrial Psychology & Human Resource Management Masters Webinar
2022-07-13 The School of Industrial Psychology & Human Resource Management will be hosting a Masters application information webinar, aimed at potential Masters candidates. The purpose of this event is to “take the guesswork” out of the application…FTI Project Upcoming Events
2024-03-11 Upcoming Events [tabs] 2024 1st Annual International Banking, Competition & Corporate Law (BCCL) Conference Conference dates: 22-24 May 2024 Venue: Mercure…https://news.nwu.ac.za/green-coal-fuel-future
"Green coal": fuel of the future
2018-05-25 Coal in its traditional form might soon be a relic of the past, but ground-breaking research by the North-West University (NWU) is showing how a face-lift to this fossil fuel has numerous safe, green possibilities. A revolutionary process to manufacture “…https://news.nwu.ac.za/faculty-theology-helping-imprisoned-fathers-reach-their-potential
The Faculty of Theology helping imprisoned fathers reach their potential
2018-04-24 It took a moment for Dr Fazel Freeks to comprehend what he was hearing. Aghast at first, the images that formed from the convict’s depiction about the deed that lead to his incarceration made him think about his family. Freeks thought of his youngest…https://news.nwu.ac.za/driehoek-tragedy-%25E2%2580%2593-nwu-expert-emphasizes-need-professional-trauma-counselling
Driehoek tragedy – NWU expert emphasizes the need for professional trauma counselling
2019-02-07 On Friday, 1 February 2019, the country was shocked by the news of a walkway collapse at Hoërskool Driehoek in Vanderbijlpark. Learners were leaving the morning assembly to go to their respective class rooms when tragedy struck. Three pupils: Roydon…https://news.nwu.ac.za/gr8-success-%25E2%2580%2593-serious-game-teaching-soft-skills
Gr8 Success! – a serious game for teaching soft skills
2018-10-26 Meet Faith Sibiya and Carl Thomson. They are two typical varsity students. Faith is an eccentric foot-dragger and always finds an excuse to do that really important assignment… tomorrow. Carl, on the other hand, is an inattentive fusspot. In less than six…https://news.nwu.ac.za/social-service-information-just-app-away-senior-citizens
Social service information is just an app away for senior citizens
2018-10-26 On a dusty street of a village in the North West Province a group of 12-year-olds are cheering each other on as they play kgati, an indigenous game using a skipping rope. As the game intensifies one of them hears her grandmother shouting from the kitchen,…https://news.nwu.ac.za/former-president-tells-nwu-there-hope
Former president tells NWU there is hope
2019-12-06 “I am not ‘moedeloos’ (in despair). I haven’t lost hope for the future but I am deeply concerned about where we are at the moment.” These are the words of former president, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former chancellor of the North-West University (NWU…https://news.nwu.ac.za/amberley-angel-disguise-0
Amberley, an angel in disguise
2019-06-14 A guardian angel is defined as an angel believed to protect a particular person, for instance from danger or error, and that is exactly what two-year-old Labrador Amberley is to her owner, Lindi Opperman. Lindi, a final-year LLB student at the North West…https://news.nwu.ac.za/behind-scenes-pandemic
Behind the scenes of a pandemic
2021-01-29 “A learning experience like no other.” This is how Prof Petra Bester, director of the Africa Unit for Transdisciplinary Health Research (AUTHeR) at the North-West University (NWU), describes the unit’s exposure to the inner workings of the North West province…https://news.nwu.ac.za/study-finds-freshwater-species-risk-threats-linked-human-activities
Study finds freshwater species at risk from threats linked to human activities
2022-09-06 From climate change and associated extreme weather events to pollutants, over-utilisation and invasive species, human activities are the main threats to freshwater species in South Africa’s largest floodplain ecosystem. This is according to the Water…https://news.nwu.ac.za/nwu-eagles-cybathlon-team-heads-zurich