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The numbers tell the story: of every 100 SA learners, 60 will sit their matric exams, 37 will pass, 12 will go to university, and only six will complete their undergraduate studies within six years. In business, this would be considered a hopeless return on investment. And it gets worse. About 45% of the workforce…
It’s big picture thinking for small business or, if you like, streetwise entrepreneurship for creative businesses. This September, Henley Business School Africa and Raizcorp will be offering the first ever CHE-Accredited and SAQA-Accredited Higher Certificate in Management Practice for Entrepreneurs. “Raizcorp is recognised by The Economist as the only genuine business incubator in Africa,” says…
The world ranking of Executive MBA programmes from the Economist shows the value and quality of our Executive MBA, positioning our course no.21 in the World, no.10 in Europe and no.3 in the UK, and highlighting strengths in a number of other areas including diversity, student quality, course content, careers, alumni network and salary increase. Today’s MBA ranking follows our recent success in both the FT Global Masters in…
Published 27 June 2020 in The Saturday Star, Independent Newspapers IN FIVE years’ time, Macfarlane Moleli wants to be running his own media house, hosting his own TV show and changing African narratives, but first though he’s got to get his MBA. The seasoned broadcast journalist, on TV screens every Sunday night, either hosting Carte…
Published 18 June 2020 on The Daily Maverick by dean Jon Foster-Pedley AS SOUTH Africa prepares for the spike in the COVID 19 pandemic in the rest of the country outside the Western and Eastern Cape provinces, some of the key conversations – over and above the availability of ventilators and hospital beds – are…
HENLEY Business School Africa has attracted its highest ever number of applications for its MBA class this year – 580, up from 420 two years ago. “We are determined to give our students the strongest launchpad for their future work success, with the best mix of international and African-oriented MBA learning”, says Henley Africa dean…
Jon Foster-Pedley is dean and director of Henley Business School, Africa and vicechair of SABSA. Jon has turned his wide-ranging skills and airforce focus to create a triple-accredited business education. Jon Foster-Pedley hails from England originally, born into an English family with deep aviation pedigree. His father, he tells me, was a pilot and a…
8th June 2020, Johannesburg, South Africa. HENLEY Business School Africa is the MBA best business school in South Africa – for a third year running, according to the PMR Awards which today announced that it had awarded the school its , highest award, the diamond arrow, again for 2020. “We are absolutely over the moon…
Published 26 May 2020 on The Daily Maverick by dean Jon Foster-Pedley AS THE CLAMOUR rises for the Lockdown restrictions to be eased so that we can kickstart South Africa’s economy and avert financial catastrophe, there’s one question that few are asking; what kind of economy is it that we want? South Africa pre-COVID-19 was…
HERE is something that should scare and excite you in equal measure; in two years’ time, 27% of our economy will consist of new types of jobs that we can’t even imagine yet – not counting the ones whose extinction will be speeded up by COVID-19 and 4IR. But here’s the thing, our universities can’t…
