Education and Training Business News Features

Ensuring that employees have the appropriate skills is crucial to the growth and success of a business, but in the context of continued belt-tightening, Return on Investment (ROI) is a major focus for top management.

With a view to helping Cape Town based SMEs improve their competitiveness in local and international markets, the UCT Graduate School of Business is inviting organisations in or close to the city precinct to participate in their Company Analysis programme during 2010.

The global financial crisis will have a major impact on the future of business schools. Speaking at the recent opening of the academic year of the University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB), Professor Eon Smit, director of the USB, said there are more lessons to be learned from the crisis, both for USB and for the global business school community.

Event Management offered by the UCT Graduate School of Business (GSB), geared to advancing management capability within the events industry, has been further fine-tuned after a successful pilot run and will be offered for the second time in 2010.