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  • Accounting students score 94.2% pass in ITC

    Posted on March 27, 2018

    The Faculty of Economic Management Sciences at the University of Pretoria is extremely proud of its students and staff and congratulates them on their results in the January 2018 Initial Test of Competence (ITC) of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA).

  • UP renews extensive partnership with Kehl University

    Posted on March 09, 2018

    UP’s School of Public Management and Administration (SPMA) has renewed its Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) of Friendship and Cooperation with the Hochschule für öffentliche Verwaltung Kehl – University of Applied Sciences (Kehl University).

  • Department of Economics co-hosts IAEE Energy Summit with City of Tshwane

    Posted on December 06, 2017

    On 1 November 2017, the Department of Economics at the University of Pretoria, in partnership with the City of Tshwane, hosted the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) South Africa Summit at the Protea Hotel Fire and Ice!, Pretoria.

  • South Africa shines at the IAEP Conference

    Posted on December 01, 2017

    The Department of Auditing at the University of Pretoria was once again represented at the 11th annual Internal Auditing Education Partnership (IAEP) Leadership and Networking Conference in Orlando, Florida in the USA from 22 to 24 September 2017. The Conference was attended by a number of...

  • 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...

  • Third-year Marketing Management Practical Project with Firestone rolls to a close

    Posted on November 23, 2017

    The third-year Marketing Management students’ practical project, in partnership with Bridgestone, ended on a high note with a classy prize-giving function on 11 October 2017.

  • Marketing Management students get “on top” of “on-premise channel”

    Posted on November 23, 2017

    The second-year Marketing Management students are making good progress on their practical project for Appletiser, which forms part of their practical module

  • Marketing Management students experience the power behind experiential marketing

    Posted on November 23, 2017

    The second-year Marketing Management students, as part of their practical project, have been challenged to develop a marketing communication strategy to increase the awareness and sales of Appletiser amongst 18 to 35-year olds, within the on-premise channel.

  • Regional General Equilibrium Modelling Course hosted at University of Pretoria

    Posted on November 22, 2017

    During the week of 18 to 22 September 2017, the Department of Economics in UP’s Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences hosted a Regional General Equilibrium Modelling training course in collaboration with colleagues from the Centre of Policy Studies in Melbourne, Australia.

  • Occupational health & wellbeing: from burnout to engagement in the workplace

    Posted on November 14, 2017

    Despite its name, occupational health psychology is traditionally concerned with ill-health and unwell-being.

  • EMS academics inaugurated into prestigious science academies

    Posted on October 16, 2017

    The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) hosted its annual awards ceremony on 11 October 2017, where new members of ASSAf and the South African Young Academy of Science (SAYAS) were also inaugurated.

  • New Commercii Executive Committee takes office

    Posted on October 10, 2017

    After a successful and well-attended voting period, the Executive Committee of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences’ student house Commercii took office on 15 September 2017.

  • Dr Paul Smit lectures at three Russian universities

    Posted on September 22, 2017

    Dr Paul Smit from the Department of Human Resource Management recently visited Russia, where he presented lectures at three different Russian universities and chaired a session at an international Brics conference.

  • Gaining confidence for job interviews

    Posted on September 15, 2017

    As part of the UP Careers Campaign, Ms Suzanne Gericke, a part-time lecturer in the Department of Human Resource Management was interviewed on Tuks FM.

  • SPMA academics present at EduLearn Conference in Spain

    Posted on September 13, 2017

    Ms Brenda Vivian and Prof Lianne Malan from the School of Public Management and Administration delivered a paper at the EduLearn Conference in Barcelona, Spain, during July 2017, entitled ‘Discipline embedded academic literacy interventions: evaluating an instructional scaffolding and...

  • 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.

  • A memorable evening with Marketing Alumni

    Posted on August 25, 2017

    It is halfway into the year, and the BCom Honours (Marketing Management) students are anxious to secure a job for next year. The Department of Marketing Management wants to assist its students on their career journeys, and as such, the idea of a guest panel of alumni was born.

  • UP scores a hat trick in the June 2017 ITC of SAICA

    Posted on August 23, 2017

    The Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences' departments specialising in Financial Sciences (Accounting, Auditing, Financial Management and Taxation) are extremely proud of their students and staff and heartily congratulate them on their results in the June 2017 ITC of the South African...

  • Prof Inglesi-Lotz honoured at DST Women in Science Awards

    Posted on August 21, 2017

    Prof Roula Inglesi-Lotz, an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Pretoria, was named the Distinguished Young Woman Researcher in the Humanities and Social Sciences category at the Department of Science and Technology (DST)'s annual Women in Science Awards on 17...

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