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  • 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.

  • Why we need to tread carefully in drawing up human rights rules for business

    Posted on August 31, 2015

    A foundation essay by Prof Danny Bradlow first published on The Conversation.

  • Exposure to customer experience management

    Posted on August 31, 2015

    The Department of Marketing Management hosted Professor Adré Schreuder, CEO of Consulta, founder and chair of the SA Customer Satisfaction Index (SASCI) and extraordinary professor in the Department during August 2015. He presented a customer experience management workshop to MPhil Marketing...

  • 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.

  • Symposium on corporate governance and integrated reporting in SA

    Posted on August 24, 2015

    The University of Pretoria’s Prof Derick de Jongh, from the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences and Director of the Albert Luthuli Centre for Responsible Leadership, was part of a panel of experts at a showcase symposium at the 75th annual meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM).

  • Communication Management lecturer lends SA lustre to Graz International Summer School

    Posted on August 12, 2015

    Ms Olebogeng Selebi, a lecturer and PhD-student in the Faculty of Economic and Management Science’s Communication Management Division, was invited to participate in in a summer school in Austria.

  • UP academic reflects on responsible leadership during a seminar hosted by the JSE

    Posted on August 05, 2015

    On Tuesday 28 July, the University of Pretoria’s Prof Derick de Jongh, Director of the Albert Luthuli Centre for Responsible Leadership, was a guest speaker at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE).

  • Communication Management alumni excels in the industry

    Posted on August 04, 2015

    Regine le Roux is a corporate reputation specialist by profession, tapping her knowledge from the Communication Management honours degree she completed cum laude at the University of Pretoria in 2001. Admirably, she completed her MCom degree within a year thereafter. Regine’s thesis...

  • Nurturing our international cooperation

    Posted on July 31, 2015

    In June 2015, Prof Ronél Rensburg and Dr Estelle De Beer were invited to visit Arnhem Business School at HAN University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. They participated as assessors in the Arnhem Business School Talent Event, during which students presented their projects to an...

  • Economics students visit Fordham University

    Posted on July 31, 2015

    The annual exchange of students between the University of Pretoria and Fordham University in New York continued this year with eight of the Department of Economics’ best and brightest completing two of the three modules in the Emerging Markets programme presented by Fordham. During August...

  • New collaborative ties established in global public relations arena

    Posted on July 31, 2015

    The Communication Management Division in UP’s Facutly of Economic and Management Sciences is establishing collaborative ties with global public relations firm Edelman’s African and South African branches.

  • Ronel Rensburg acknowledged for distinguished service to public relations in South Africa

    Posted on July 30, 2015

    Prof Ronel Rensburg, Head of the Communication Management Division in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, has received the Fellowship Award from the Public Relations and Communication Management Institute of southern Africa (PRISA) on 15 June 2015.

  • Marketing Management says goodbye to Prof Puth

    Posted on July 29, 2015

    The Department of Marketing Management hosted a farewell function for Prof Gustav Puth on Friday, 19 June 2015 at the Serengeti hall on UP’s Hatfield Campus.

  • Meta-analyst visits the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences

    Posted on July 24, 2015

    Brenton Wiernik, a doctoral student in industrial and organisational psychology at the University of Minnesota, USA, visited the Department of Human Resource Management in UP’s Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences from 16 June to 3 July 2015. Brenton is working with the Department...

  • Tourism Management hosts conference on sustainable tourism at Kruger National Park

    Posted on July 23, 2015

    The 15th Building Excellence in Sustainable Tourism Education Network (BEST EN) Conference was hosted with great success by the Faculty of Economic and Management Science’s Tourism Management Division at the Protea Hotel Kruger Gate from 17 to 21 June 2015. The conference was organised by...

  • Shoulder to shoulder with the best: EMS staff attends the EAWOP 2015 congress

    Posted on July 22, 2015

    Prof Chantal Olckers and Prof Karel Stanz of the Department of Human Resource Management were part of a South African delegation attending the 17th Congress of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP) in Oslo, Norway, in May 2015. The event is the largest and most...

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