GSTM Colloquium

Posted on September 15, 2017

The 3rd PhD colloquium this year at the Graduate School of Technology Management was held on 15 September 2017.

Twenty years of developing practical project managers – and ‘business as usual’ not an option

Posted on September 12, 2017

On Friday 31 August, a function was held to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Programme in Project Management (PPM) – a continuing education course to develop practical project managers. A number of clients that regularly send their employees on the course, and several other...

A decade of collaboration on project management training

Posted on August 29, 2017

In December 2006, one of South Africa’s leading construction and engineering companies, Group 5, invited proposals for project management training from several training providers. After rigorous assessment of the proposals received, the company selected the Graduate School of Technology...

Celebrating two decades of excellence in project management training

Posted on August 01, 2017

The University of Pretoria has been teaching project management at postgraduate level since the 1970s and in August 1997, it launched a practical 20-day project management programme. Since then, the programme has been presented 154 times and this year we celebrate 20 years of training excellence...

Researchers from Tilburg University visit GSTM

Posted on March 06, 2017

Building on a long-standing exchange of staff members, three researchers from the Department of Organization Studies, Tilburg University, have visited GSTM from February 27th to March 3rd. Their visit fits within a broader research program to study firm innovation in South Africa.

Involvement in professional associations

Posted on March 06, 2017

Prof Elma van der Lingen, Chair Graduate School of Technology Management would like to thank and congratulate Proffs Tinus Pretorius, Leon Pretorius, Joe Amadi-Echendu and Dr Jörg Lalk for their continuous involvement and management roles they play in various professional associations.

The GSTM recently hosted Prof Adolfo Crespo-Martinez of the University of Seville Spain

Posted on November 22, 2016

Prof Crespo’s secondment is with regard to an on-going EU Horizon 2020 MCSA RISE SustainOwner Project 645733 featuring collaboration between Politecnico Milano, Italy; University of Seville, Spain; University of Cambridge, UK; IIT Delhi, India; Rutgers University, USA; The University of...

New Head of Department: Prof Elma van der Lingen

Posted on September 30, 2016

Professor Elma van der Lingen will assume the duties of HOD in the Department of Engineering and Technology Management wef 1 October 2016.