This section focuses on social problems and promotes good mental health for students. The Social Welfare Services provides the following social welfare development workshops: (1) Relationships; (2) Date Rape and Secual Harassment; (3) Stress Management; and (4) Self-esteem. It also provides the following social welfare programmes (1) New Student Orientation; (2) Violence Against Women and Children; and (3) Alcohol and Substance Abuse
Family Planning also known as contraception or birth control are an important intervention for reducing or prevention of unwanted pregnancies, maternal illnesses and maternal deaths. This is also a conscious effort of couples to regulate the number and spacing of births. It improves the wellbeing of women and their families. The family planning workshop includes the different types of methods such as oral contraception, injections, implants, female and male sterilization, intrauterine devices, the correct use of male and female condoms, abstinence and the importance of regular Pap smear and breast examinations.
Infections which are transmitted during unprotected sexual intercourse via the vagina, anus and orally.
Stress is an everyday fact of life. Stress is any change that you must adapt to, ranging from the negative extreme of actual physical danger to the exhilaration of falling in love or achieving some long-desired success. The stress management workshop focuses on equipping students with the necessary knowledge and skills to handle stress related situations and events.
The Social Welfare Services is committed toward promoting good mental health amongst students. One of the most prominent concerns in students is low self-esteem that results in depression, unhappiness, insecurity and poor confidence. The Self-esteem workshop focuses on skills that students can use to improve their self-esteem.
Women and children are subjected to physical and psychological abuse that cuts across the lines of income, race and culture. A programme held each by the Department of Student Services sensitize and empower the student population with knowledge on the negative effects of violence against women, men and children.
Although alcohol is a legalized substance, it is still a substance of abuse. The programme on alcohol and substance abuse provides and disseminate information on the effects of alcohol, factors of alcoholism and treatment. It focuses on types of drugs such as narcotics, barbiturates, tranquillizers, amphetamines, cocaine, hallucinogens, marijuana, caffeine and nicotine and their effects.
| ADS | Academic Development and Support |
| ADSTLT | Academic Development Support, Teaching, Learning and Technology |
| ALUMNI | Alumni and NUST Foundation |
| ATPI | Agriculture Trade Policy Institute |
| BI | Business Intelligence |
| BRC | Biodiversity Research Centre |
| BUSH | Biomass Utilisation by Sustainable Harvest |
| CE | Cooperative Education |
| CED | Centre for Enterprise Development |
| CEI | Corporate Engagement and Internationalisation |
| CEMB | Centre for Excellence in Mineral Beneficiation |
| CSQA | Corporate Strategy and Quality Assurance |
| DSS | Department of Student Services |
| DTBS | Digital Transformation Business Services |
| DVC-FO | Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Finance and Operations |
| DVC-RIP | Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Research, Innovation and Partnerships |
| DVC-TLT | Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Teaching, Learning and Technology |
| EOSA | Earth Observation and Satellite Application |
| EOSARTC | Earth Observation and Satellite Applications Research and Training Centre |
| FabLab | Fabrication Laboratory |
| FCHSE | Faculty of Commerce, Human Sciences and Education |
| FCI | Faculty of Computing and Informatics |
| FEBE | Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment |
| FHNRAS | Faculty of Health, Natural Resources and Applied Sciences |
| Finance | Finance |
| Hotel School | NUST Hotel School |
| HP-GSB | The Harold Pupkewitz Graduate School Of Business |
| HR | Human Resources |
| HTTPS | High-Tech Plaza Select |
| ILMI | Integrated Land Management Institute |
| INCEIT | India-Namibia Centre Of Excellence In Information Technology |
| MTC | Mathematics Tutoring Centre |
| MTI | Material Testing Institute |
| NBII | Namibian Business Innovation Institute |
| NEI | Namibia Energy Institute |
| NGIL | Namibia-German Institute For Logistics |
| NGSA | Namibia Graduate School of Accounting |
| NIST | Namibia Institute of Space Technology |
| NQF | Qualifications Registered on NQF |
| P3ICL | Protecting, Preserving and Promoting Indigenous Knowledge Cultures and Languages |
| PDQA | Programme Development and Quality Assurance |
| Registrar | Office of the Registrar |
| SCIONA | Skeleton Coast IONA transfrontier park Technology for Conservation |
| VC | Vice Chancellor |
| Writing Unit | Writing Unit |