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Cutting back on skills development has long-term consequences
As companies review their new financial year budgets, many are tempted to cut back on skills development but this mistake can cost companies dearly in the end... read


Distance Learning
Empowering women starts with education

Issued by Oxbridge Academy

If we want to see more women in leadership positions across South Africa, we have to start with a focus on good education. This is the sentiment shared by Oxbridge Academy's group of exemplary female managers... read
E-learning
The solutions to youth unemployment are at our finger tips

Jill Young

The current unemployment rate for youngsters just out of school or tertiary education is 60%, which is much higher than the overall unemployment rate of 25%, and equates to two out of three South Africans aged between 18 to 28 being unemployed... read
Higher Education
Comments welcome for proposed compliance officers' exams
The Registrar of Financial Services Providers has published draft amendments to Board Notice 127 (BN 127), entitled 'Qualifications, Experience and Criteria for Approval as Compliance Officer', which is still in draft form and subject to public comments and must reach the Financial Services Board (FSB) by 16 May 2016... read
Partnerships to promote crop research

Pia Nanny

The Department of Agronomy at SU received a donation of an Equalizer minimum till plot planter to improve their research in the crop cultivation of grain... read
Plan postgraduate studies from first undergraduate year
A postgraduate degree opens doors for employees in the current competitive labour market but planning such a degree should not be left until the completion of the undergraduate degree but rather form part of a student's goal from the beginning... read
Applications open for 2017 JLL/Tétris Graduate Programme
The JLL and Tétris South Africa Graduate Programme provides graduates with the opportunity to learn from specialised property-related disciplines in the business, allowing them to obtain real property experience... read
GIBS Associate Director: Personal & Applied Learning appointed to executive committee for international coaching institution

Issued by Gordon Institute of Business Science

Alison Reid from University of Pretoria's Gordon Institute of Business Science has been appointed to the executive committee of the Graduate School Alliance for Education in Coaching... read
R2m boost for African case studies

Issued by UCT Graduate School of Business

A collaboration between two of the world's top business schools will see the development of emerging market-focused business learning material that will contribute to the 'decolonisation' of the business school curriculum locally... read
Winning entrepreneur says laziness won't get you anywhere

Issued by UCT Graduate School of Business

A Cape Town student and winner of a prestigious South African competition says too many South African entrepreneurs are not determined enough to succeed... read
Primary & Secondary Education
Round three of BDO School Quiz goes to Glenwood High
Glenwood High School has just been named as the top central Durban school in round three of BDO School Quiz... read
Business
Industry 4.0: SA gets digital

Danette Breitenbach

In South Africa, a surge is expected in digital in five years' time, with the current level of digitisation and integration expected to rise from 27% to 64%... read
#HappinessMatters: How's your thinking environment?

Sindy Peters

Trisha Lord believes her life's purpose is to help others implement generative thinking across their relationships... read
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