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How can an MBA in healthcare management transform SA’s healthcare industry?
A Masters of Business Administration in Healthcare Management can transform the healthcare industry in South Africa by providing professionals with the necessary knowledge, skills, and expertise to effectively lead and manage healthcare organisations. With an MBA, professionals can learn about various business and management principles, including financial management, strategy,... Read more
Administrator-to-academic encourages women to break bias
If ever anyone epitomized what the results of hard work and dedication can result in, it is Hlengiwe Carol Mazibuko from Regent Business School. She went to school in Ladysmith and despite a lack of resources and opportunity, she has worked relentlessly to establish herself as an academic. She... Read more
SA academics join Lindau meetings in Germany
Four local academics will join scientific and economy boffins from across the world at the world-renowned 7th Lindau meetings on Economic Sciences to be held in Germany from 23 to 27 August 2022. Economics lecturers and a Doctor of Business Administration student from Regent Business School will participate for... Read more
SACAP boosts school leaver vocational options
SACAP (South African College of Applied Psychology) has announced the 2022 launch of two new Higher Certificate educational programmes in its Management and Leadership faculty offering school leavers a vocational pathway into the South African business sector.  The SACAP Higher Certificates in Business Management and Human Resources Management are... Read more
Dr Cleo Karrim now head Mancosa’s school of education
In May 2021, Dr Cleo Karrim was officially appointed as Head of School for the School of Education at MANCOSA.  She graduated with a PhD from UKZN in 2021. The title of her research was “Negotiating femininity and marginalisation: Coloured teenage girls accommodating and resisting violence, poverty and hypersexual... Read more
Mancosa celebrates national youth day
By Professor Magnate Ntombela, Principal of MANCOSA June 16 (Youth Day) in South Africa commemorates the fateful events of 1976 when school children rose against the Apartheid government’s introduction of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction for 50% of the school subjects.  The decision was not based on any... Read more
First MANCOSA female graduate from DBA programme
Dr Patricia Ndlovu could not hold back her excitement as she defended her Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) thesis at MANCOSA, the first by a female at a private higher education institution. Dr Ndlovu who hails from Gauteng undertook research for a thesis titled, “The Development of a Financial... Read more
Dr Michele Ruiters elected President of Rhodes University Convocation
Rhodes University Alumni have entrusted Dr Michele Ruiters with the role of President of Convocation. She is a senior lecturer at the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) that is associated with the University of Pretoria. Ruiters teaches human and organisational behaviour courses, diversity, equality and inclusion. She is... Read more
“If you do not believe in yourself, how will you be able to convince others to believe in you?” This is the maxim by which 56-year-old Western Cape resident Johan Koen lives to ensure that despite his physical disability, he is successful in his career. Koen suffers from Guillain-Barré... Read more
Trace Academia officially launches free online vocational training platform in South Africa
Trace, in the presence of the honourable French Minister Elisabeth Moreno and South African partners, today formally announced the inauguration of Trace Academia in South Africa, and the signing of a protocol of cooperation between Trace, Senghor University in Egypt, and Agence Française de Développement (AFD), to create a training... Read more