Opinion: Training in entrepreneurship can play a positive role in the education landscape

Posted on November 16, 2015

The events of the past few weeks in the area of tertiary education caused considerable upheaval, but according to Prof Jurie van Vuuren, Coordinator of the Chair in Entrepreneurship in the Department of Business Management at the University of Pretoria (UP), a few of the fundamental assumptions...

National professional HR body elects UP expert to its board

Posted on November 11, 2015

Prof Karel Stanz, Head of the Department of Human Resource Management, was elected as board member of the South African Board for People Practice (SABPP) for the period 2016 to 2018.

Tax@Tuks rewarded for raising tax awareness and promoting leadership

Posted on November 10, 2015

Tax@Tuks, the official society for Taxation students at the University of Pretoria, received four prestigious awards at the Commercii year-end function in.

Turning marketing research findings into marketing insights

Posted on November 10, 2015

The Department of Marketing Management hosted Ms Ineke Prinsloo, National Head of Strategy and Customer Insight at, international short-term insurance company Zurich, on 17 October 2015. Ms Prinsloo has 18 years of experience in the financial services industry. She has been a director on the...

Small-town regeneration through tourism: A major window of opportunity

Posted on November 06, 2015

Prof Ernie Heath, from the Department of Business Management at UP, was the facilitator of the Tourism Commission, at the inaugural Small Towns Conference with the theme, 'Small towns, new futures' that was held in Bloemfontein from 22 to 23 October 2015.

On the cutting edge of data visualisation

Posted on November 06, 2015

Ms Danielle Carrick, an information designer from GfK Consumer Experiences North America in New York, presented a lecture to the MPhil Marketing Research students while she was hosted by the Department of Marketing Management on 16 and 17 October 2015.

Top Marketing Management students rewarded by Potatoes South Africa

Posted on November 06, 2015

The year has come to an end for the third-year BCom Marketing Management students who have worked on a practical integrated marketing project for Potatoes South Africa (PSA). A prize-giving function was held on 29 October 2015, where the top three groups were rewarded for their PSA projects. PSA...

British High Commissioner speaks on the importance of integrated reporting

Posted on November 04, 2015

The Albert Luthuli Centre for Responsible Leadership (ALCRL), in association with the British High Commission (Pretoria), PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Old Mutual plc and the Institute for Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), recently hosted a roundtable event at PwC's Business...