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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


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