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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
