Press Releases
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Customer Experience Management
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If you build it, they will come. So goes the line from an outright romantic old Kevin Costner movie – Field of Dreams. Pity the business manager though who reckons that simply ‘building it’ will deliver customers to the doorstep.
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Sustainable Social Ventures
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The best intentions of the donor nations who supply international aid, coupled with the passion and sweat of NGO workers notwithstanding, it remains an open question whether the maladies that have plagued sub-Saharan Africa for decades on end are anywhere closer to being resolved.
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Good Clinical Practice Across Africa
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When it comes to medical research involving human subjects, the public must have assurances that the rights, safety and wellbeing of these human subjects are protected and that the clinical trial data is accurate.
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A Future for All: The Centre for Inclusive Banking in Africa
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Economic growth and poverty alleviation are complex challenges requiring problems to be solved simultaneously on many fronts. Traditionally, one of the key institutional shortcomings has been the lack of suitable and affordable financial solutions
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| Bioentrepreneurship - The Next Major Wave of Commercial Activity |
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Imagine what your life would be like if you held the intellectual property rights to a miracle cure, say for instance malaria, cancer, HIV/AIDS or any of the world’s other major scourges.
You could earn protected income, live well, and enjoy wide recognition for your contribution to humanity. One might even venture to say that you would sleep well at night?
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| Guiding Aspiration into Opportunity |
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Training and mentorship are two vital components of CE at UP’s innovative new Economic Development (ED) programme to develop entrepreneurs.
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| The Value and Role of Short Course Training |
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In the debate surrounding the value of allocating scarce funding towards short course training, there are several critical issues often overlooked and which we take the opportunity here to revisit.
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| Preparing for the workplace by developing employable skills |
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In 2008 the Department of Health introduced a national programme to train 3 535 matriculants in data capturing on the District Health Information System (DHIS). The programme is aimed at training unemployed matriculants to capture patient records on a national information system (DHIS) to have the records electronically available on a national database.
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| Business as usual |
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Professor Carolina Koornhof Praises UP’s Business Activities
Professor Carolina Koornhof was recently appointed as Executive Director, Finance and Business Activities at the University of Pretoria (UP). She takes on the enormous responsibility not only for the day to day financial well-being and sound financial management of the University, but will also be responsible for overseeing the growth of UP’s so-called second and third stream income activities.
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| Short Courses, Long Term Benefits |
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For business owners and employees who never had the chance to go to university, short courses are a great way to spruce up their CVs and improve their operational knowledge and skills.
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