Education

VENTURES AFRICA – Last month, Johannesburg-born Jessica was awarded the “Rising Star of the Year” at the annual South African Business Awards, hosted by the South African Chamber of Commerce at SA House in London. Jessica works as the Network Development and Affiliations Officer with Democratic Alliance (DA) Abroad – Democratic Alliance being the main [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – The University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB) today became the only school of an African university to be triple accredited, having now also earned accreditation from the AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools in Business). USB is the first ‘African-born’ school to gain the sought-after AACSB accreditation after previously achieving both EQUIS [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – The Tunisian capital, Tunis, has hosted representatives of international organizations, government delegations and the private sector attending an international conference on productive capacity for youth organized by the European Union (EU) and the UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). The 700 participants who attended the two day event discussed strategies geared towards developing [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – Curro Holdings, the JSE-listed education company, the PIC, South Africa’s biggest sovereign wealth fund and Old Mutual, the life assurer, have acquired a Polokwane-based Northern Academy Independent Secondary School for 150 million rand ($17 million). This is among the first deals of its nature in South Africa as the country’s private sector [...]

VENTURES AFRICA - At the recently concluded 5th Eduniversal World Convention of the Best Business Schools, the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business (UCT GSB) was rated as the best business school in Africa, based on votes from Deans of other international business schools. The annual meeting which welcomes academics, business school leaders, and [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – Just like the great American civil right activist Martin Luther King Jnr. had a dream of an equal social existence, so did Ghanaian-born entrepreneur, Fred Swaniker, dream to build a Pan-African school that will position the new generation of African youth towards prosperity in future years. His mission was to give the [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – Ghanaian educational institution, African University College of Communications (AUCC) has signed an agreement with AVAGMAH Online School of Bharathidasan University, India, to launch an online distance learning programme for professionals and others, beginning January 2013. The online distance education, which would offer post-graduate, undergraduate and certificate courses, is designed to deliver winning results [...]

VENTURES AFRICA- One of Africa’s prestigious business schools, University of Cape Town‘s Graduate School of Business (GSB) collaborating with top Canadian business school, the Rotman School of Management, Toronto, to offer a new programme – Postgraduate Diploma in Management Practice – specialising in Innovation Leadership. The programme begins in December 2012 and runs until December [...]

VENTURES AFRICA - Global Press Institute (GPI) is the brain child of Cristi Hegranes, a 31-year old American journalist and former foreign correspondent that is changing the face of international journalism and women’s empowerment. In 6 years, GPI has grown from just Cristi, to news desks which employ 120 women in 25 countries, including desks in [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – Coaching is increasingly becoming popular and effective in the field of human capital – learning and development. For managers, coaching has become an effective tool in harnessing and supporting their staff while for Trainers it is implemented to coach different individuals with varied needs in both aspects of work and life. The [...]

By Ayodeji Abiola It is generally believed that students will perform poorly in any subject if they do not like the subject teacher. Although a teacher’s duty is not to be “liked”, yet it is very important that the relationship between teachers and students be good enough to support learning. One of the ways to [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – America’s Michigan State University has received a $7.3 million grant that will be channelled towards building the capacity of agricultural scientists in Africa as the continent struggles to achieve food security. The project dubbed Borlaug Higher Education Agricultural Research and Development after Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Norman Borlaug, will begin in Ghana, [...]

By Ayodeji Abiola   VENTURES AFRICA – I am not trying to be Stephen Covey right now, but I have borrowed from his book’s title to drive this piece about what makes a great teacher. Teachers are the heart of our educational system and if we hope to churn out excellent learners, then our teachers must [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – In order to enforce corporate integrity, two wholly-owned subsidiaries of Oxford University Press (OUP), Oxford University Press East Africa Limited (OUPEA) and Oxford University Press Tanzania Limited (OUPT), have been blacklisted from participating in World Bank projects and other agency projects which have an agreement with the World Bank like the African [...]

By Ayodeji Abiola   VENTURES AFRICA – In my previous two articles here and here, I discussed funding issues for higher educational institutions (HEIs) in Nigeria. The aim of those articles was to encourage corporate organizations and employers to put money into higher education, which is in their best interest. Another money related trouble with [...]