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  • UP master's student wins Tax Thesis Competition

    Posted on October 20, 2015

    Innovative thinking by leaders and up-and-coming talent in the tax field was celebrated and recognised at the national Tax Thesis Competition awards function that was held at Norton Rose Fulbright's Office in Sandton on 8 October 2015. Lara Theron, a student in UP's Department of Taxation, won...

  • Destination marketing expert visits UP

    Posted on October 20, 2015

    The Tourism Management Division hosted Prof Dimitris Koutoulas from the University of Patras in Greece during September 2015.

  • Prestigious journal invites UP professor to serve as consulting editor

    Posted on October 15, 2015

    Prof Jenny Hoobler of the Department of Human Resource Management in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences was recently invited to serve as a consulting editor (CE) on the editorial board of the Journal of Applied Psychology (JAP).

  • UP Accounting students receive top awards

    Posted on October 13, 2015

    UP students walked away with two of the three top prizes at the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) Student Leadership Summit, held at the Standard bank Global Leadership Centre from 1 to 3 October 2015.

  • Research affirms sustainability and value creation in a rural community

    Posted on October 05, 2015

    Dominique Pröbstl, a Communication Management master’s degree student in UP’s Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, was involved in one of South Africa’s most ambitious corporate social responsibility (CSR) projects.

  • EMS launches Entrepreneurship Development Programme

    Posted on September 16, 2015

    A new and exciting entrepreneurship programme will be offered for the first time in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences’ Department of Business Management in 2016.

  • UP’s MPhil in Internal Auditing teaches through collaboration

    Posted on September 04, 2015

    During July 2015, 36 part-time students commenced with their postgraduate studies in internal auditing, presented in UP’s Department of Auditing. These students are mostly senior internal audit practitioners working in the private and public sectors globally and in South Africa. The MPhil...

  • SA’s first MPhil in Internal Auditing flourishes at UP

    Posted on September 04, 2015

    The University of Pretoria is proud to offer the first master’s degree programme in internal auditing in South Africa, aimed at a global audience.

  • EMS honours student part of transformative leadership in Africa

    Posted on September 02, 2015

    Goitse Boikanyo, a BComHons Financial Management student in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, recently attended the third MasterCard Foundation Tertiary Scholars Program Convening in California, USA.

  • Research grant for African project awarded to EMS team

    Posted on August 31, 2015

    Prof Jenny Hoobler of the Department of Human Resource Management in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, Courtney Masterson, doctoral candidate from the University of Illinois, USA, and Elsabé Buys, MCom Industrial Psychology student were recently awarded the 2014/2015 Emerald...

  • International expert presents MPhil Marketing Research workshop at UP

    Posted on August 26, 2015

    On 31 July and 1August 2015 the Department of Marketing Management hosted Professor Holger Lütters, a professor of International Marketing at the Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft in Berlin and a leading expert on the topic of online marketing research.

  • Cementing the ‘Pretoria School of Thought’ into PR history

    Posted on August 25, 2015

    Neeltjé du Plessis from the Communication Management Division presented a research paper co-authored by Prof Ronél Rensburg at the International History of Public Relations Conference (IHPRC), held at Bournemouth University, England.

  • Leadership development workshop

    Posted on August 24, 2015

    The Department Human Resource Management would like to invite all interested students to attend a leadership development workshop

  • EMS celebrates excellence at awards function

    Posted on June 19, 2015

    At its awards function held on 10 June 2015, the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences celebrated excellence in research and teaching and learning during 2014, by awarding Research Excellence awards and Teaching and Learning Excellence awards to its staff members.

  • Physical evidence of service on campus

    Posted on December 03, 2014

    Marketing Management students had the opportunity to examine two excellent examples of physical evidence, one of the so called 7 Ps of marketing, on the University of Pretoria’s Hatfield Campus. The evidence was found in none other than buildings on the campus.

  • Rethink it: looking at the environment differently

    Posted on January 17, 2013

    While all the abovementioned materials are found in abundance from university waste, paper makes up the largest part of the waste stream in an educational setting. Imagine how much paper universities across the country use and discard every day. Semester papers and reports, journals and...

  • Commercii blanket drive

    Posted on May 22, 2012

    Commercii in association with Jacaranda FM 94.2 are running their annual blanket drive. Please donate any new blankets to this initiative or you can make a cash donation of as little as R5 towards collecting funds to purchase blankets.

  • Blanket Drive

    Posted on August 03, 2011

    Commercii, along with the University of Pretoria, took part in the annual Jacaranda FM blanket drive during last semesters exams.

  • Good luck with the exams!

    Posted on June 01, 2011

    With exam time coming up, Commercii wishes the students of the EMS Faculty good luck with their studies and all the upcoming exams.

  • Tuks Cansa Shavathon

    Posted on April 21, 2011

    The Tuks Cansa Shavathon was a huge success. Commercii was placed third out of all the various Faculties. Thank you to all the students who supported this worthy cause.

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