The MBA offered by Technikon Pretoria’s faculty of economic sciences has been developed to suit the South African environment and aims to develop world-class leaders and managers.
“Technikon Pretoria’s Business School allows prospective and current managers to be prepared for the future by putting within their reach an internationally based MBA that follows world business trends and is based on the practical application of academic theory,” says Philip Lochner, the school’s head. “Although the programme explores contemporary business theory, it remains firmly rooted in the empirical objectives of the commercial environment.”
The MBA comprises 15 modules ranging from organisational behaviour, financial management and human resource management to change management and a research dissertation. The modules are presented in English over eight trimesters through part-time study, and comprise lectures, group discussions and syndicate group work.
Teaching methods combine lectures, case studies, project work and independent research. “To ensure that we design courses that stay market-related and meet the needs of industry, the Business School has appointed a dynamic advisory board, representing major role-players in the private and public sector,” Lochner says.
Net career advice
A new, Web-based career testing and advice service was launched last month. Serious Choices is a new company under the Educor Group that has set up a demo site enabling people to explore an array of career- planning information.
This includes 5 000 job titles with job descriptions, 3 300 South African courses, and contact details for 600 education providers in South Africa.
Serious Choices will offer free seminars to high school guidance teachers and counsellors at youth centres from this month in all provinces.The demo site is at www.seriouschoices.co.za