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Sportdepartement wil personeel aktief kry
Aug 19, 2022 - Met die gesegde: “’n Fikse en gesonde liggaam is die beste modestelling wat jy kan maak”, wil die sportdepartement op die Vanderbijlparkkampus van die Noordwes-Universiteit die tradisionele manier verander waarop mense oor fiksheid en gesondheid dink. Die departement het onlangs die bekendstelling aangekondig van die NWU Vaal se…
Sport Department to get staff active
Aug 19, 2022 - With the saying: “A fit and healthy body is the best fashion statement”, the Sport Department on the Vanderbijlpark Campus of the North-West University is seeking to change the traditional way people think about fitness and health. The department recently announced the introduction of the NWU Vaal Staff Conditioning Programme which is set to…
Gemeenskapsuitreiking 2017 – eerstejaarstudente gee hulle tyd en harte
Aug 19, 2022 - Vir sommige mense is vrywilligerwerk en gemeenskapsdiens ’n opsionele ekstra – iets wat jy doen wanneer jy tyd en bykomende hulpbronne tot jou beskikking het. Dit is nie die geval op die Vanderbijlparkkampus van die Noordwes-Universiteit nie. Verbeel jou: 800 eerstejaarstudente uit alle vlakke van die samelewing wat sing en glimlag terwyl…
Community Outreach 2017 – first-year students give their time and hearts
Aug 19, 2022 - For some people, volunteering and community service are an optional extra; something you do when you have time and additional resources at your disposal. This is not the case on the Vanderbijlpark Campus of the North-West University. Picture this: approximately 800 first-year students – from all walks of life, singing and smiling whilst sweeping…
First publishers acknowledged
Aug 19, 2022 - A total of 40 staff members of the North-West University’s (NWU’s) Potchefstroom Campus received recognition for their first publication of a research article. This event is held annually to welcome staff members into the ranks of research publishers. Prof Susan Visser, Vice-Rector: Research and Planning, said that everyone is now at the…
A helping hand – student leaders become First Aid smart
Aug 19, 2022 - v> Whether it's a minor situation or something more serious, first aid knowledge might just be the difference between life and death. In light of this, members of the student leadership fraternity on the Vanderbijlpark Campus of the North-West University recently underwent first aid training as offered by St Johns. Heading-up this…
Alumnus ranked tops in national SAIPA board exam
Aug 19, 2022 - Like his well-known namesake, North-West University (NWU) alumnus Muhammed Alli, believes in hard work, dedication and perseverance – and as was the case with the sporting legend, this mind-set yields great professional success. In sticking to the boxing analogy – Muhammed recently dealt the national SAIPA (South African Institute of…
BABEL-projek wen ’n wêreldwye uitdaging
Aug 19, 2022 - Die Noordwes-Universiteit se navorsers was deel van ’n internasionale konsortium wat ’n hoëprofiel-spraaktranskripsie-uitdaging gewen het – ’n eerste vir Suid-Afrikaanse navorsers op hierdie gebied. Die huidige spraaktranskripsiestelsels is gebou op tegnologie wat oorspronklik vir Engels en ’n klein groepie wêreldtale ontwikkel is, met…
BABEL Project: Winning a global speech technology challenge
Aug 19, 2022 - North-West University (NWU) researchers within the field of speech technology were part of an international consortium that recently won a high-profile speech technology challenge - a first for South African researchers, in this field. Today’s speech transcription systems are built on technology that was originally developed for English and a…
Amakhosi at home at NWU Vaal
Aug 19, 2022 - The football club of the North-West University’s Vanderbijlpark Campus has signalled their intentions for the remainder of the season by announcing the signing of four new players from the ranks of the Kaizer Chiefs Football Academy. Four players from the academy enrolled at the Vanderbijlpark Campus to further their studies and to don the…
NWU advancing interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary studies within social sciences
Aug 19, 2022 - The North-West University’s Vanderbijlpark Campus is joining hands with the Social Sciences Research Society in Turkey to host the 8th International Conference on Social Sciences (ICSS) later this year. The conference will take place in Durban from 23 – 25 August 2017 and will see delegates from around the world in attendance. ICSS represents…
No compromise on quality and safety - Prof Dan Kgwadi
Aug 19, 2022 - The Vanderbijlpark Campus of the North-West University (NWU Vaal) recently welcomed in excess of 1 500 new first year students into the fold during the 2017 Welcome Day. The Welcome Day saw students being accompanied by their parents, guardians and loved ones to meet the Vice-Chancellor – Prof Dan Kgwadi, and the different management and…
NWU Student selected as Science Today candidate
Aug 19, 2022 - A PhD student from the Department of Biological Science at the Mahikeng Campus of the North-West University (NWU), Theodora Ekwomadu, was selected as one of the Science Today 2016 candidates. Science Today, formerly Science Voices, is a science-writing project run by award-winning science journalist, Sarah Wild. Postgraduate science students…
NWU professor speaks at the 4th Biannual International Group Theory Conference
Aug 19, 2022 - Mathematician and research professor of the Mahikeng Campus of the North-West University (NWU), Prof Jamshid Moori, was recently invited to speak at the fourth conference of the Biannual International Group Theory Conference (BIGTC) in Kuala Lumpur. Jamshid, of the School of Mathematical Sciences in the Faculty of Agriculture, Science and…
“Everything is in place to move forward as a unitary university” – Prof Dan Kgwadi
Aug 19, 2022 - “As a University we are now awaiting the approval of the Minister of Higher Education and Training which will confirm our new statute and allow us to fully implement the structure. We have put everything in place to move forward as a unitary university.” This is the message from Prof Dan Kgwadi, Vice-Chancellor of the North-West University,…
Stalwarts receive recognition for long service loyalty
Aug 19, 2022 - During the recent Official Academic Opening ceremony of the Vanderbijlpark Campus of the North-West University (NWU Vaal), several staff members received long service awards for uninterrupted and loyal service to the university. When calculating the accumulated years of service, it amounts to 385 years of combined skills and knowledge. Long…
Ikateleng: laying the foundation for bright futures
Aug 19, 2022 - Thabiso Blessing Khanyile may not have attended one of South Africa's best performing secondary schools, but he can without a doubt compete with the best. For Thabiso, who attended the Ikateleng Project at the Vanderbijlpark Campus of the North-West University (NWU Vaal), the sky is the limit after obtaining full marks for mathematics during the…