Ideal scenario, right? And it’s perfectly reasonable to ask, “Will my company pay for my studies?” You know it’s going to help your job, raise your capabilities and add great value to your company. But can you explain this well enough for your colleagues and boss understand? If you walk into this blindly, you may…
The John Perlman Show, Radio 702, 16th June 2021 with Jon Foster-Pedley, Henley Business School Africa dean and director. Jon Foster-Pedley speaks to John Perlman about the rising popularity of side hustling, as well as a study Henley conducted looking into the sector. They also look at destigmatising doing this additional work and how it…
An MBA is your goal, but you aren’t sure whether Henley Business School Africa’s Postgraduate Diploma in Management Practice (PGDip) provides you with the required accredited qualification to enter the MBA? The answer YES. The PGDip is an HEQC level 8 qualification, the same as an honours degree, all you need to enter an MBA.…
Johannesburg: The world has changed at its most rapid pace since the industrial revolution and the Covid-pandemic has accelerated this socio-economic metamorphosis. Where 18 months ago the daily grind included trips to and from the office, reality has created home and workplace conflicts with entirely new mindsets demanded from people. Sans any change in resilience…
HENLEY Business School Africa’s first ever virtual MBA exchange is underway. It’s the latest innovation by the business school which was the first on the continent to transition to fully virtual learning and teaching before South Africa’s COVID-19 lockdown in March 2020. “The exchange programme is just one of the by-products of our incredible…
28th June 2021, Johannesburg, South Africa. THABISO Thakali has won this year’s Sol Plaatje scholarship to study his MBA at Henley Africa Business School. The Sowetan executive editor was one of the two inaugural winners of the scholarship, along with investigative journalist Pauli van Wyk, when they were selected at the start of 2020. Thakali…
Daily Maverick, 20 July 2021 JON FOSTER-PEDLEY AS SOUTH Africa appeared to teeter on the brink of its much-prophesied descent into failed nation status in the third week of July, many people were starting to ask questions of themselves. Wall-to-wall coverage of civil unrest and widescale looting on top of a third wave of a…
Johannesburg: A snap poll across Henley Business School’s social media community hints that South Africans are becoming pandemic fatigued. As the country returned to an adjusted Level 4 lockdown this week, the dipstick may indicate a greater social and economic hangover that could last beyond Covid-19 says Henley Dean Jon Foster-Pedley. “It’s been a…
23rd June 2021, Johannesburg, South Africa. HENLEY Africa is set for another first – a mid-year graduation in July. There will be 19 virtual ceremonies held between 12 July and 27 July, with most of the 728 graduates coming from executive education programmes, ranging across Henley’s unique ladder of learning, but also including the open…
It’s been a challenging year-and-some, what with the isolation of lockdowns, the inconvenience of masking, and the various Covid conventions that have made life inconvenient and stressful. It’s no wonder, then, that many of us are suffering from what psychologists are labelling “pandemic fatigue”. We just “don’t want to know about it” any more. A…
