2022 Annual Report

With the Covid-19 pandemic finally subsiding, our staff and students returned to our campuses, ready and eager to tackle the 2022 academic year while adhering to the last Covid-19 protocols that were still in place at that stage.

Living through the pandemic was a journey of discovery: we discovered old strengths and new possibilities within ourselves and our world.

In 2022 we harnessed several pandemic-driven discoveries and innovations, for instance adopting a hybrid-flexible (HyFlex) teaching-learning approach that enables simultaneous face-to-face and online teaching and learning.

By resuming our on-campus activities, we returned to our essence: being a contact university with a vibrant student life. Through this “home-coming”, we were also able to rediscover the treasures the NWU has to offer.

As a result, Discover the NWU became the theme interlacing all our activities in 2022 and, by extension, the story we tell in this integrated report.

Our story has two levels of meaning. Our first intention is to show you how we as a university lead people to discover the NWU and the myriad of opportunities we offer to guide them on their own journeys of discovery. Our second aim is specifically linked to this report: we invite you, our readers, to discover more about the NWU itself – especially about how we create value by empowering people.

We aim to show you how we mobilised and affected our resources, skills and relationships, known as our “capitals”, for the greater good.