University of Zululand: a focus on innovation
The only comprehensive university north of the Tugela River in KwaZuluNatal, the University of Zululand (Unizulu) is not content to simply educate thousands of students from across the country: the institution strives for academic and research leadership, pitting its minds against the best in the country to address a broad range of challenges in South Africa. calls and messages to minimise dangerous distractions.
Innovation in business development
Enactus, a global community of student, academic and business leaders committed to using the power of entrepreneurial action to transform lives is active at Unizulu, with the university’s Enactus chapter reaching the semi-finals of the Enactus World Cup last year. At the event, the innovative team showcased some its projects, demonstrating how its interventions helped to turn struggling small businesses into sustainable business ventures. These included assisting a small-scale and struggling aquaculture farmer in the province turn around his business. They also helped a co-operative to manufacture and market its vegetable pickle, which proved to be a turning point in the co-operative’s fortunes.
Ongoing excellence
The university continues to invest in innovative and advanced infrastructure to support education. One example of this is the state-ofthe-art, multi-million rand clinical simulation laboratory, where the Department of Nursing Science provides students and educators with broad access to the practice environment, directly at the point of learning.