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Henley Africa launches DBA satellite office
African MBA and master's graduates will be able to enrol for their doctoral studies at Henley Business School's African satellite office later this year. Henley Africa is currently pursuing its own accreditation through the Council on Higher Education, but in the interim Henley UK will open a satellite support office at the Johannesburg campus. 19 Apr 2022 Read more

Henley Business School partners with AdCademy to build pool of Nigerian business managers
African economies are not growing at the expected rate in spite of abundant natural resources. A lot of factors are at play. But Henley Business School, Africa, in collaboration with the Association of Advertising Agencies of Nigeria's (AAAN) initiative, AdCademy, is tackling this challenge from the platform of developing business managers who will strengthen their intellect and innovation abilities. Daniel Obi writes on Henley Business School's partnership with the association and the scholarships to Nigerian professionals. 16 Feb 2022 Read more

Henley Africa Sol Plaatje media scholarship applications open for 2022
Henley Business School Africa is inviting journalists and media practitioners to apply for its annual Sol Plaatje Scholarship. Established in 2019, the award covers all tuition costs for either the one year Post-graduate Diploma (PG Dip) or the 30-month executive Master's in Business Administration (MBA). 9 Feb 2022 Read more

Henley Africa achieves Level 1 B-BBEE status
Henley Business School Africa has become the first leading business school in South Africa to achieve Level 1 B-BBEE. Announcing the achievement, Henley Africa dean and director Jon Foster-Pedley, said it was even more remarkable since the business school had achieved this in the space of a year in the middle of a national state of emergency. This now means that Henley's clients can claim 135% of their spend with Henley Africa as B-BBEE procurement recognition. 20 Dec 2021 Read more

Henley Africa declares Day of Remembrance to remember the victims of the Covid-19 pandemic
Henley Business School Africa has declared Friday, 17 December 2021, the day after South Africa's Day of Reconciliation, a Henley Africa Day of Remembrance to remember the victims of the Covid-19 pandemic and the price everyone has had to pay. 17 Dec 2021 Read more

Henley Africa's playbook for strategy
So many strategies look great on paper but then get lost in translation when it comes to implementation. Companies have never been able to afford this, but now they can afford it even less as they deal with a post-pandemic world. 8 Dec 2021 Read more

Henley Africa kicks off with graduation celebration ceremonies
Henley Business School Africa has set off on a three-week programme of graduations - conducted virtually for a second year in a row, because of the ongoing Covid-19 restrictions. 17 Nov 2021 Read more

Telemedicine throws a lifeline to patients and healthcare practitioners during Covid-19
Healthcare practitioners and their patients have been hard hit by the crisis in healthcare caused by Covid-19. With hospitals bursting at their seams with sick Coronavirus patients and a lack of essential supplies to treat patients - exacerbated by the past unrest in South Africa - many patients who would typically go to a hospital or seek the services of a healthcare professional have chosen to stay home and self-manage their ailments for fear of contracting the virus. Furthermore, many who have contracted the virus are also at home as pathways to accessing medical care have become far more challenging in the current environment. 16 Sep 2021 Read more

Gratitude is finding her purpose
Gratitude Keloabetsoe Rampota was desperate to become a manager - but she didn't know how. So, the relationship consultant at Auto & General went to the person who'd hired her to ask for advice. That person happened to be studying for the Post Graduate Diploma in Management Practice at Henley Business School Africa. 14 Sep 2021 Read more

Henley MBA alumni Dr Kubheka proudly uses science, research and innovation
Dr Sibongile Kubheka doesn't like not knowing. She's got no patience for wrestling with the abstract; when something puzzles her, she goes out of her way to find out why. The latest thing that she discovered is why people won't use cannabis products, despite their proven medicinal worth - and she did it as part of her MBA thesis, winning a distinction in the process. 8 Sep 2021 Read more

Henley is using virtual reality - the empath machine of the emerging technology world
In a world that is increasingly physically disconnected, Henley Business School Africa is using technology to reintroduce the human touch to a virtual world and bring its people together. 3 Sep 2021 Read more

Gerda's handmade quilt of learning
Henley Business School Africa prides itself on creativity and innovation, but there are few who will come close to Gerda Olivier; in an era of always on artificial intelligence, machine learning and digital connectivity, she took her creativity to the next level by hand making a quilt. 13 Aug 2021 Read more

Henley Africa's second ever Dean's Dialogue focussed on youth in crisis and the need for skills
Henley Africa's second ever Dean's Dialogue focussed on youth in crisis. It's a critical topic says Henley Africa dean and director Jon-Foster-Pedley. How do we build an economy with the highest Gini co-efficient in the world where youth unemployment is one of the highest on the globe at almost 75%? 10 Aug 2021 Read more

"How do we start a movement to save the planet and stop climate change?" asked at Henley Africa Dean's dialogue
"How do we start a movement to save the planet and stop climate change?" This was the question that Henley Business School Africa dean and director Jon Foster-Pedley posed at the inaugural Henley Earth Dean's dialogue. 3 Aug 2021 Read more

Henley Business School Africa's first ever virtual MBA exchange is underway
Henley Business School Africa's first ever virtual MBA exchange is underway. It's the latest innovation by the business school which was the first on the continent to transition to fully virtual learning and teaching before South Africa's Covid-19 lockdown in March 2020. 22 Jul 2021 Read more

Henley Africa's Sol Plaatje scholarship winners announced
Thabiso Thakali has won this year's Sol Plaatje scholarship to study his MBA at Henley Africa Business School. The Sowetan executive editor was one of the two inaugural winners of the scholarship, along with investigative journalist Pauli van Wyk, when they were selected at the start of 2020. 29 Jun 2021 Read more

Henley Africa's ladder of learning bears fruit for executive education graduates
Henley Africa is set for another first - a mid-year graduation in July. There will be 19 virtual ceremonies held between 12 July and 27 July, with most of the 728 graduates coming from executive education programmes, ranging across Henley's unique ladder of learning, but also including the open programme of the Advanced Certificate, Higher Diploma and Post Graduate diploma streams of management practice. 24 Jun 2021 Read more

Henley Africa launches resilience programme: The meta-capability of the 21st century
If you aren't resilient you are going to flounder - and drown - in the new normal. You simply won't cope in a world where the only constant is change and the only guarantee is that there is no guarantee. The good news is that you can be taught to be resilient. It's what Mark Orpen-Lyall, psychologist, mentor, coach and business leader, intends doing through Henley Business School Africa this year. 22 Jun 2021 Read more

Henley Africa wins the best MBA business school as voted by corporate South Africa for the 4th year
Henley Business School Africa is the highest ranked business school campus in Africa in the inaugural Open Syllabus/Financial Times survey on teaching power - which was announced at the end of May. There are about 13,000 business schools worldwide and Henley was ranked 17th globally in this survey. A total of 595,000 courses were assessed. 21 Jun 2021 Read more

Henley MBA Dean's Creative Industries scholarship awarded to Alexander Leibner
Media entrepreneur Alexander Leibner has been awarded the Dean's Creative Industries Scholarship to study his executive MBA at Henley Business School Africa. 27 May 2021 Read more

Walking the milestones to achieve your goal during lockdown
Japie Wentzel is about to graduate with his executive MBA. This is no ordinary degree, it's the culmination of a five-year journey that began with some harsh truths and some even tougher lessons. 7 May 2021 Read more

Medical doctors are making the transition to virtual medicine and digitise their practices
South Africa's clinicians have been amazing during the Covid pandemic but they haven't been backed by the same level of managerial, material and logistical support, says Dr Peter Cruse. 20 Apr 2021 Read more

Henley MBA student Collen Mashawana is helping build communities during a pandemic
There are many aspects to the Henley Executive MBA that make it stand out from every other MBA programme offered on the continent, not least the fact that it is the only international MBA offered in South Africa. But there are two other aspects that are extremely close to Henley Africa dean and director Jon Foster-Pedley's heart: serving the community and active learning. 26 Mar 2021 Read more

Martijn Slager joins Henley Africa as head of sales
Martijn Slager is passionate about making a difference in people's lives. A marketer and salesperson in a career that spans both FMCG and higher education across countries and two continents, he wants to sell the concept of lifelong learning. 24 Feb 2021 Read more

Professor Daniel Petzer joints Henley Business School Africa as new head of research
Daniel Petzer is the new head of research at Henley Business School Africa. He has been awarded a full professorship in this role, by the University of Reading, UK. The 49-year-old career academic joined the award-winning business school at the beginning of January 2021, after a highly successful tenure at the University of Pretoria's Gordon Institute of Business Science where he had been professor of marketing, director of research and ultimately deputy dean of the business school. 22 Feb 2021 Read more

Henley Africa launches comprehensive virtual pivot course for healthcare practitioners
On 10 March, Henley Business School Africa will present the first class in a progressive, brand-new course that addresses both the realities of Covid-19 and the accelerated disruption of the digital age - and provides a sustainable solution in the process. 19 Feb 2021 Read more

Henley Resurgence winner of 2020 BASA first-time sponsorship arts award
Henley Business School Africa has been adjudged the outright winner of the 2020 BASA first-time sponsorship of the arts award for Henley Resurgence, the collaboration with the Coloured Cube Collective, that saw Henley's iconic columns in the forum between the Cape Dutch buildings that constitute 'D-Block', transformed in a blaze of colour and imagery. 26 Nov 2020 Read more

Henley Business School will be conferring degrees and diplomas on a record number of graduates
Henley Business School Africa will be conferring degrees and diplomas on a record number of graduates later this month - in a virtual ceremonies that will run over two and half weeks starting on Monday, 23 November. 26 Nov 2020 Read more

Henley Africa MBA student named SA Journalist of the Year at 2020 Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalist of the Year Awards
Henley Africa MBA student Pauli van Wyk has been named South African Journalist of the Year at the 2020 Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalist of the Year Awards. The accolade was one of a hat-trick of awards she received at the annual ceremony, held virtually on Thursday, 15 October this year because of the Covid-19 crisis. 19 Oct 2020 Read more

Postgraduate Diploma in Management Practice (Africa) starts in October 2020
South Africa's borders officially open for the first time in six months on 1 October but if they hadn't, students on Henley Business School Africa's brand new NQF level 8 qualification for Africa would have been walking through the continent's factories and fairs - from the comfort of their own home - on 27 October. 2 Oct 2020 Read more

Henley Business School Africa sponsors Bright Spark Foundation soccer kit
On Saturday, 19 September 2020, two teams of young soccer players took to the field to practice their soccer skills in Henley Business School Africa sponsored kit. Soon they hope to be playing a full match against an adult Henley Africa side on the campus itself. 1 Oct 2020 Read more

Loyiso Bala has done it - and the world is his oyster
Loyiso Bala has done it - just like he said he would four years ago. He's finished his MBA, four years after starting his PG Dip in Management Practice, and he did it the year he turned 40. There's just one difference... the multiple SAMA award-winning singing sensation who won the Johnny Clegg scholarship is graduating cum laude. 11 Sep 2020 Read more

Combatting corruption in South Africa depends on three pillars, says experts on Henley and SABSA panel
Combatting corruption in South Africa depends on three pillars: ending the bipolar myth of good private sector/bad public sector, the establishment of an unstoppable citizens' movement and for directors to cross their own intellectual Rubicon and serve companies not shareholders. 8 Sep 2020 Read more

2020 could be your year of plenty - if you're up for it
It's big picture thinking for small business or, if you like, streetwise entrepreneurship for creative businesses. This September, Henley Business School Africa and Raizcorp will be offering the first-ever CHE-Accredited and SAQA-Accredited Higher Certificate in Management Practice for Entrepreneurs. 14 Jul 2020 Read more

MBA applications break all records for Henley Business School in Africa
Henley Business School Africa has attracted its highest ever number of applications for its MBA class this year - 580, up from 420 two years ago. 18 Jun 2020 Read more

Henley Business School Africa is the MBA best business school in South Africa - for a third year running
Henley Business School Africa is the MBA best business school in South Africa - for a third year running, according to the PMR Awards which today announced that it had awarded the school its highest award, the diamond arrow, again for 2020. 9 Jun 2020 Read more

2 South African business schools and a South African bank have won a highly coveted global award
Two South African business schools and a South African bank have won a highly coveted global award - the EFMD Excellence in Practice Gold Award for Executive Education. They are the first team to ever do so in this category in Africa since the award's inception - beating off the best business schools in the rest of the world. 29 May 2020 Read more

Tendai Mtawarira went back to school this week
Tendai Mtawarira went back to school this week - from the comfort of his home in Durban - as the inaugural recipient of a special scholarship from Henley Business School Africa on a programme designed to help sports icons successfully transition from the change room to the boardroom. 28 May 2020 Read more

Afrillennials present specific challenges to today's managers
At a recent Raizcorp presentation at Henley Business School Africa, Ronen Aires, CEO and founder of Student Village, discussed the topic of Millennials or as he describes them, Afrillennials. 23 Mar 2017 Read more

Nikki Bush, parenting expert, encourager and author to speak at Henley MBA Family-Friendly event
Nikki Bush will be giving part two of her ‘Parenting on the Run' talk at Henley Business School Africa's MBA Family-Friendly event, on Wednesday 22 February at 6:30pm. She presented part one last year at Henley and received excellent reviews. 15 Feb 2017 Read more

Henley open for MBA scholarship applications
Henley Business School Africa has opened applications for its 2017 MBA scholarships. Four scholarships are made available each year to potential students applying for the MBA. This includes a scholarship for Henley's unique MBA for Creative Activists and Innovators; the Dean's scholarship; and African Heroes' scholarship and the Johnny Clegg Creative MBA scholarship. Applications for 2017 should be submitted as soon as possible for a limited number of places, which will be allocated on merit. Recipients will have displayed a real sense of purpose in building South Africa and its people. The scholarships cover the Henley flexible MBA programme with a range of business people and entrepreneurs, plus extra module to cover the creativity and innovation skills. All four scholarship recipients are busy with Stage 2 of their MBA. 25 Jan 2017 Read more

Henley growth prompts recruitment campaign
Henley Business School Africa's growth over the past 12 months has prompted a recruitment drive dubbed "Giants Wanted" in search of four talented candidates. 12 Dec 2016 Read more

Henley UK ranked the most gender-balanced faculty body worldwide with 47% women
In the 16th edition of the Financial Times (FT) annual ranking of the world's top 100 executive MBA programmes for senior working managers, Henley Business School UK was ranked the most gender-balanced faculty body worldwide with 47% women compared to the survey average of 28%. Henley achieved 47th position overall. There are some 13,000 business schools worldwide. 1 Nov 2016 Read more

Henley Africa to host international Creativity and Innovation conference
Henley Business School Africa's inaugural Creativity and Innovation Conference is to be held at Henley in Sandton on 15-16 October, which is a first in terms of hosting a line-up of international speakers. 14 Oct 2016 Read more