Businesses reap rewards of education programme

LEADING organisations both in the Eastern Cape and nationally reaped the rewards of their ties to the NMMU Business School as 256 individual candidates and employees from private and public sector entities received certificates at the annual Executive Education Awards ceremony yesterday.

The business school has seen its relationship with local and national industry strengthen, with about 60 businesses countrywide investing in staff development through its executive education programmes over the past year.

Among the organisations represented at the awards ceremony were Shatterprufe, Badger Holdings, Eberspaecher and departments of the Eastern Cape provincial government.

Speaking at the ceremony held on the NMMU south campus in Summerstrand, NMMU Business School director Dr Randall Jonas said the school had adopted a highly contextualised approach to training, whereby modules were adapted to fit the strategic objectives of the organisations.

In addition, Jonas said, the business school had a critical role to play in developing the kind of transformational and ethical leadership needed to address social ills.

“We need to be that catalyst for business success as well as social progress,” he said.

“We consider ourselves to be a strategic partner in developing responsible leadership.”