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13-12-2022
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Dear donor,
As the year draws to a
close, I express my sincere gratitude for your continued support to our
students, researchers, and the North-West University in general.
It was my honour and
privilege to engage with many of our donors during the NWU donor luncheon
held in Sandton recently. Besides the pleasure of engaging with some of
our most valued supporters, I was also encouraged to observe our shared
appreciation of the importance of postgraduate students to the development
and growth of our country and its economy. In addition, I appreciated our
shared recognition that funding for the 'missing middle' – students from
households just above an annual income of R350 thousand, and not eligible
for NSFAS – and postgraduate students is vital.
Postgraduate students make
a significant contribution towards a sustained knowledge economy.
Therefore, encouraging our students to pursue postgraduate degrees is
supremely important. The NWU currently has 7 409 registered
postgraduate students. We wish to increase this number; thus, our efforts
to get external funding for this cause will need to double. One of our
flagship projects for 2023 involves increasing access to postgraduate
studies, and I trust that you will join us in making this possible.
We continue to produce
quality graduates that benefit various sectors of our economy. I am
pleased to inform you that 14 034 students graduated during our 2022
graduation ceremonies. I am confident that these graduates, our alumni,
will make meaningful contributions to whatever sectors in which they find
themselves. I encourage you to visit our website, https://news.nwu.ac.za, for updates on
some of our achievements. The stories below contain news regarding
some of our milestones.
May I leave you with
our very best wishes for a well-rested and wonderful festive season.
Sincerely,
Dr Bismark Tyobeka
Principal and
Vice-Chancellor
Dear donor,
The Board of Donors is one of the statutory bodies of the
North-West University. Our role is to offer advice to the vice-chancellor
or Council on matters of interest to the university or the donor
community. Therefore, we need to play a significant role in helping the
university on various issues, especially fundraising, and attracting more
donors for the North-West University.
During the 2022 academic year, we hosted a few initiatives
including the Donor Luncheon, which were aimed at sharing information and
exploring ways and means that we can maximise the funds/resources to
assist students – especially the 'missing middle' and post graduate
students.
I take this opportunity to thank all donors who participated in
these initiatives. Most importantly, a word of gratitude to all donors for
their continued support to the North-West University. I can confirm the Board of Donors'
renewed commitment to the North-West University and its funding
endeavours. We do this to ensure that the university remains successful
and sustainable; and achieve its dream to become an internationally
recognised university in Africa, distinguished for engaged scholarship,
social responsiveness, and an ethic of care.
I look forward to
meeting with you, our donors, in 2023 and continue to strengthen our
relationships with the North-West University.
I wish you a safe and
an enjoyable festive season.
Kind regards
Ms Percy Moleke
Chairperson: NWU
Board of Donors
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On 18 November Prof Bismark Tyobeka, principal and
vice-chancellor of the North-West University (NWU), hosted Morné du
Toit, chief executive officer, and Jethro Hill, IT operations manager of
the Ikusasa Student Financial Aid Programme (ISFAP), for a strategic
discussion and a special tour of the Potchefstroom Campus.
ISFAP implements a unique funding model to
sustainably cater for the higher-education needs and expenses of South
Africa's poor and middle-class students, mainly students aiming for
careers in occupations of high demand. These occupations include
actuaries, accountants, engineers, medical doctors, pharmacists, nurses,
data scientists and prosthetists.
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The North-West University (NWU) celebrated its torchbearers of
excellence ― one of the university's core values ― during the
university's Excellence Awards for 2021/2022.
The prestigious awards ceremony took place on 24 November at Snowflake
in Potchefstroom.
During the event, the NWU honoured the best-of-the-best academics across
the three legs of the university's core business: teaching and learning,
research and innovation, and community engagement.
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There is an urgent need to address the
problem of inadequate funding for postgraduate studies in South Africa.
This was the recurring consensus during the recent North-West University
(NWU) donor event held in Sandton, Johannesburg.
Speakers included Dr Anna Mokgokong,
chancellor of the NWU; Dr Bismark Tyobeka, principal and
vice-chancellor; and Percy Moleke, chair of the NWU Donor Council. “We
need to develop our country and its economy from a pool of
postgraduates," said Dr Tyobeka. Undergraduates cannot sustain the
growth and development of a country. A first qualification is not advantageous
in the current South African labour market. Therefore, it is crucial to
encourage our students to pursue postgraduate degrees,” he said.
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Postgraduate students and researchers from the North-West
University (NWU) won seven awards at the Southern African Institute for
Occupational Hygiene's (SAIOH's) annual conference that took place from
26 to 28 October 2022 in Boksburg, and during the gala dinner the best
students and research articles were awarded.
According to Prof Johan du Plessis, the director of the
Occupational Hygiene and Health Research Initiative (OHHRI), no awards
were given in 2019 and 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and therefore,
this year awards were given for 2019, 2020 and 2021.
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Four music students from the North-West University
(NWU) recently departed for a five-month study trip to Stockholm in
Sweden.
This is part of the Linnaeus-Palme Exchange
Programme funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation
Agency (SIDA), with additional funding from the Hillensberg Trust.
This is the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic
in 2020 that NWU students were able to travel and take part in the
exchange programme.
According to Prof Santisa Viljoen from the School of
Music and Conservatory at the NWU, the exchange programme affords the
students the opportunity to focus on their theoretical and practical
learning experience in an inter- and multicultural environment.
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