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  • 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...

  • Dumisani Hlophe shares his thoughts on responsible leadership in the public sector

    Posted on July 22, 2015

    Since the beginning of 2015, Research Tuesdays has become a permanent feature on the the Albert Luthuli Centre for Responsible Leadership (ALCRL) calendar. The aim of these sessions is to gather all our PhD students to share their research progress and challenges, as well as to invite experts...

  • Business Management gives back on Mandela Day

    Posted on July 22, 2015

    Every year Child Welfare Tshwane invites the community of Pretoria to give only 67 minutes of its time on Mandela Day, 18 July, towards inspiring individuals to instil positivity within the community.

  • Leadership in Africa

    Posted on July 20, 2015

    Dr Willem Fourie from the Department of Dogmatics and Christian Ethics in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Pretoria, in collaboration with Suzanne van der Merwe and Ben van der Merwe, both from the Albert Luthuli Centre for Responsible Leadership, recently published an informative and...

  • Three UP students attended the MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program Convening

    Posted on July 20, 2015

    The MasterCard Foundation recently held its third Tertiary Scholars Program Convening in June during which university level scholars from across the Program came together to meet and talk about critical issues.

  • Cutting-edge training courses in Marketing Research to be offered from 2016

    Posted on July 16, 2015

    Following a programme review and extensive industry feedback, the format of the GfK programme in Marketing Research offered by the Department of Marketing Management at the University of Pretoria (UP) will be changed in 2016.

  • Prof Johann Kirsten appointed as editor of Agrekon

    Posted on July 10, 2015

    Prof Johann Kirsten, Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development was recently appointed as the Editor of Agrekon, published by Taylor and Francis and indexed by Scopus and Web of Science. He succeeds Prof André Jooste who was Agrekon editor since 2010.

  • Four doctorates graduate in Tourism Management

    Posted on July 01, 2015

    The Tourism Management Division – the smallest division in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences – proudly conferred four doctoral degrees at UP’s at 2015 Autumn Graduation Ceremony.

  • UP expert serves on international commission for programme accreditation

    Posted on July 01, 2015

    Professor Jerry Kuye from the School of Public Management and Administration in UP’s Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences was part of the international expert commission tasked with affording international accreditation to public administration programmes. The commission assembled at...

  • Communication Management’s top honours student for 2014 announced

    Posted on June 26, 2015

    Ms Deneil Habig completed her BCom(Hons) degree in Communication Management cum laude and top of her class at the end of 2014. She completed the BCom Marketing Management degree, also cum laude, at the end of 2013 and is currently enrolled for a postgraduate certificate in education through Unisa.

  • Financial management experts attend international conference in USA

    Posted on June 25, 2015

    Prof Frans Vermaak and Ms Elize Kirsten of the Department of Financial Management recently attended the International Academy of Business and Public Administration Disciplines (IABPAD) Conference in Dallas, Texas, where they presented a research report entitled ‘Management of an Accounting...

  • Can financial advice act as a substitute for financial literacy?

    Posted on June 23, 2015

    Dr Michelle Reyers from the Department of Financial Management was invited to present a poster at the 2015 Boulder Summer Conference on Consumer Financial Decision Making, which took place in Colorado, USA, from 31 May to 2 June.

  • Marketing Management honours students promote EMS through video concepts

    Posted on June 23, 2015

    The honours students of the Department of Marketing Management had to conceptualise a promotional video for the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences (EMS), through means of a storyboard. A storyboard, according to Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese, is the way to visualise the entire...

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