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…
20 May 2020, Johannesburg, South Africa. HENLEY Business School is in the top 25 in the world when it comes to executive education – and the best in Africa at providing this. The authoritative Financial Times of London has ranked Henley at 24 in the world, number 16 in Europe, number five in the UK…
14 May 2020, Johannesburg, South Africa. TWO South African business schools and a South African bank have won a highly coveted global award – the EFMD Excellence in Practice Gold Award for Executive Education. They are first team to ever do so in this category in Africa since the award’s inception – beating off the…
13 May 2020, Johannesburg, South Africa. TENDAI Mtawarira went back to school this week – from the comfort of his home in Durban – as the inaugural recipient of a special scholarship from Henley Business School Africa on a programme designed to help sports icons successfully transition from the change room to the boardroom. “It…
SOUTH Africa’s three week lock down is going to take its toll in ways many never expected, especially for people forced to work from home. The divorce rates have spiked in China after the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus last November, while France has seen a surge in domestic violence cases. The omens for South…
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…
The Saturday Star,18th April 2020 – John Vlismas feature WHAT does a business do if it’s caught in the middle of a 21 Day lockdown? If your executive in charge of marketing is South African comedian John Vlismas, it’s simple; you give away the product for free. Except this is no joke. Ever since the lockdown…
JOHANNESBURG, Tuesday 31 March 2020 – HENLEY Business School Africa today announced that in order to support the transformation of South African education in the current COVID-19 crisis, it will share all its virtual education insights, learning, innovations and methods freely with public and private South African universities and business schools. The business school pivoted to…
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…
