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  • Supporting local entrepreneurship in the creative arts industry

    Posted on February 15, 2018

    In a country like South Africa where there are limited creative industry resources and where the creative industry is still in an early growth phase, it has become critical to equip different creative entrepreneurs with much needed tools to develop and sustain their industries, as well as their...

  • Microsoft and UNDP visit UP to discuss SDGs

    Posted on January 24, 2018

    As part of the University of Pretoria’s commitment to focus much of its research, teaching and community engagement on implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Albert Luthuli Centre for Responsible Leadership (ALCRL) and Future Africa hosted representatives from Microsoft...

  • Corruption and state capture: Research gives 'voice' to ordinary South Africans

    Posted on December 07, 2017

    The Centre for Communication and Reputation Management at the University of Pretoria recently commissioned a study to explore the views of ordinary South Africans regarding corruption and state capture.

  • Transcultural Leadership Summit in Germany

    Posted on November 23, 2017

    Prof Derick de Jongh, Director of the Albert Luthuli Centre for Responsible Leadership at the University of Pretoria, participated in the Transcultural Leadership Summit that was hosted by the Zeppelin University Leadership Excellence Institute, on 16 and 17 November 2017.

  • Supply Chain Management degree programme to obtain European accreditation

    Posted on November 23, 2017

    The Department of Business Management at the University of Pretoria is the first South African university department to obtain European Logistics Association accreditation in recognition of the quality and standard of the BCom Supply Chain Management degree programme offered by this department in...

  • GIBS hosts 2017 EFMD Middle East and Africa Conference

    Posted on November 17, 2017

    The University of Pretoria's Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) recently hosted the 2017 European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) Middle East and Africa Conference.

  • Economic and Management Sciences alumna receives prestigious Skye Foundation Scholarship

    Posted on November 07, 2017

    Ms Natasha Ashley, an alumna of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences at the University of Pretoria, has been awarded a prestigious Skye Foundation Scholarship for the 2017 intake.

  • Best paper award for Business Management student and staff

    Posted on October 27, 2017

    Tebogo Loate, a master’s student in the Department of Business Management, along with lecturers Mr Wesley Niemann and Mr Theuns Kotzé, recently received the Best Paper Award at the 1st African Operations Management Conference.

  • UP Business Incubator – Step onto the path of entrepreneurial success

    Posted on October 19, 2017

    The UP Business Incubator was established to provide free support services to potential and new entrepreneurs on campus. The service allows entrepreneurs to plan, start and grow their ideas into high-impact business ventures.

  • Free Entrepreneurship Programme supports budding entrepreneurs at UP

    Posted on October 10, 2017

    Join the entrepreneurship support ecosystem at UP at no charge. You have youth and time on your side and if you have entrepreneurial passion to boot you have much to gain by starting to utilise the system without delay.

  • GIBS once again tops Financial Mail business school and MBA rankings

    Posted on October 05, 2017

    The University of Pretoria's Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) has retained its dominance in the 2017 Financial Mail 'Ranking the MBAs' annual survey.

  • Future supply chain professionals attend SAPICS student conference

    Posted on September 19, 2017

    During the weekend of 26 August 2017, under- and postgraduate supply chain management students from the University of Pretoria attended the SAPICS conference for young supply chain professionals. SAPICS is known for being a professional body that enables industry professionals and individuals to...

  • Entrepreneurship 101

    Posted on September 19, 2017

    According to Prof Alex Antonites, Entrepreneurship is a skill that can be learnt, and all it takes to be a success is the ability to think strategically, achieving small goals in the beginning and having a long term outlook.

  • UP Vice-Chancellor is Businesswoman of the Year winner for Education

    Posted on September 11, 2017

    University of Pretoria (UP) Vice-Chancellor Professor Cheryl de la Rey was named the winner in the education category of the Businesswoman of the Year Awards for 2017 by the Businesswomen's Association of South Africa at a ceremony in Sandton last week.

  • UP track champion graduates with Information Science degree

    Posted on September 11, 2017

    Akani Simbine, 2016 Rio Olympics finalist in the 100 metres, South African record holder in the 100 metres sprint, and Diamond League gold medallist, graduated at the University of Pretoria (UP) with a Bachelor of Information Science on Friday, 8 September.

  • Students use soft skills to improve small businesses within their community

    Posted on September 07, 2017

    First-year BCom Extended Programme students, based at the University of Pretoria’s Mamelodi Campus, have decided to lend a helping hand to the local community in collaboration with the Mamelodi Business Clinic.

  • International Business Management students learn about doing business in Africa

    Posted on September 07, 2017

    On Monday, 7 August 2017, Mr Neil Hobkirk (Director: Elevate the Core & Hansa) and Dr Cindy Rautenbach (Africa Talent Attraction Manager) of Brazilian beverage and brewing company AB InBev presented a guest lecture on doing business in Africa to the International Business Management...

  • Supply Chain Management Career Day 2017

    Posted on August 18, 2017

    The Department of Business Management successfully hosted its annual Supply Chain Management Career Day on 21 July 2017 at the UP Conference Centre.

  • EMS students attend summer programme in Germany

    Posted on July 28, 2017

    Three students from the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences (EMS) recently attended the European Bachelor Summer Institute course titled 'The Business, Political and Cultural Environment in Europe', presented at WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management in Vallendar, Germany.

  • One Planet MBA co-founder visits Albert Luthuli Centre for Responsible Leadership

    Posted on July 11, 2017

    Professor of Leadership Studies Jonathan Gosling from the Business School at the University of Exeter, United Kingdom, visited the Albert Luthuli Centre for Responsible Leadership in June 2017.

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