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Henley Business School switches to 100% virtual and online learning immediately Today, in order to deal with the COVID-19 threat, the Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, Blade Nzimande, announced this afternoon that all higher education institutions should close until 15 April. Accordingly, Henley Business School Africa has switched to 100% online and virtual…
WE ARE busy destroying our planet. Last year, the United Nations released a devastating report based on three years’ research by more than 350 scientists across the world in the most comprehensive global health check ever conducted. Nothing made for good reading; coral reefs are dying beneath our oceans, rain forests are being felled leaving…
IT’S SAID that sticks and stones can break your bones, but words can never hurt you. It’s not totally true. Communication, particularly miscommunication, can actually kill you. In March 1977, 583 people perished on the Canary island of Tenerife when a KLM Boeing 747 crashed into a PanAm Boeing 747 on the runway. It was…
4th March 2020, Johannesburg, South Africa. HENLEY Business School Africa has partnered with the Mark Fish Foundation to reach out to farm workers through sport – and give them the opportunity and the skills to change their lives. Announcing the launch of the initiative at the school’s Paulshof campus in the north of Johannesburg, dean…
IT’S a film that will shock you to your core, a story that will make sense of a lot of the inconveniences that have now become part and parcel of South Africa’s daily lived reality. Acclaimed South African filmmaker Rehad Desai’s latest work “How to Steal A Country” is not for the faint-hearted, but it…
The Henley Centre for Coaching has received the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) Coaching Award, in recognition of its impact and contribution to the coaching industry. Part of Henley Business School, the Henley Centre for Coaching is a global leader in coaching research and training, providing a vibrant learning community where coaches can network,…
WHEN Eskom declared Stage 6 load shedding recently, South Africa convulsed in a state of incredible anger. It’s not that the lights had been cut off – we have been living through this since 2007 in one form or another, it’s not even that we were promised earlier this year that the worst that we…
Why did it take the firing of a finance minister to galvanise corporate South Africa to begin caring about the future of this country? asks legendary journalist and social commentator Richard Poplak. Speaking at the launch of the South African chapter of the Henley Business School’s global alumni network, the editor-at-large of South African online…
Henley Business School has launched an alumni chapter in SA. The UK-based school has alumni in 170 countries, 40 of them in Africa. Its Johannesburg campus accounts for 60% of current Henley MBA students around the world. Jean-Pierre Choulet, Henley’s director of development and alumni, says: “We are a true global business school, with a…
We need to radically transform our economies, which means throwing out the cant of isolationism or of only giving jobs to our nearest and dearest and instead appointing people who don’t look like us, but who are undoubtedly the best qualified for the job, sacrificing the toxic recipe of tokenism and short-termism for the longer-term…
