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  • SAIMS Conference 2017: Science serving practice.

    Posted on October 13, 2017

    The 29th Annual Conference of the Southern African Institute for Management Scientists was held from 10 to 12 September 2017.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Heritage Day Message 2017

    Posted on September 22, 2017

    Heritage Day is a day to celebrate the multitude of cultures, languages, religions and art forms of all South Africans.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Now what? Problems graduates encounter in the workplace

    Posted on September 13, 2017

    Graduating from university and getting your first job are great achievements. However, the transition from student life to the life of a working professional should not be underestimated.

  • 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...

  • Paraplegic man graduates with master's degree thanks to wife's support

    Posted on September 12, 2017

    Thabang Malapela graduated with a Master of Public Administration degree on Thursday, 7 September 2017.

  • UP scores highest pass rate in recent SAICA exams

    Posted on September 12, 2017

    Students from the University of Pretoria’s Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences achieved the highest cumulative pass rate in South Africa in the two most recent Initial Tests of Competence administered by the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA).

  • University of Pretoria graduates more likely to be employed

    Posted on September 12, 2017

    According to the QS Graduate Employability Survey published today, the University of Pretoria is ranked among the top one hundred universities in the world for its alumni outcomes, with a position in 97th place.

  • 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.

  • Prof Thornhill to serve as African co-editor of Local Economy journal

    Posted on September 07, 2017

    The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit of the London South Bank University, published by Sage, has appointed Prof Chris Thornhill as its co-editor for Africa, effective from August 2017. Prof Thornhill, professor emeritus in the School of Public Management and Administration (SPMA), brings...

  • ATI students soared during September

    Posted on September 07, 2017

    A student of Prof Riël Franzsen, SARChI Chair in Tax Policy and Governance and Director of the African Tax Institute in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, Dr Carika Fritz, obtained a doctorate degree in law (LLD) at the September 2017 graduation ceremony.

  • University of Pretoria Spring Graduation Ceremony

    Posted on September 06, 2017

    The University will confer 1 807 degrees, diplomas and certificates during this year's Spring Graduation Ceremony. These include 142 doctorates, 427 master's degrees and 746 honours degrees, which will be awarded over three days.

  • Marketing students ‘discover’ how it feels to win with Discovery

    Posted on August 29, 2017

    The exam for the Marketing of Services module in the BCom Marketing Management honours degree took place on Thursday, 15 June 2017. The exam entailed a project conducted in partnership with Discovery, where students had to develop ideas for a new product aimed at millennials.

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