The largest provider of business education in Africa and one of the largest in the world
2020-07-14 00:00:00.0 | Category:
Lead, Dept of Operations Management, College of Economic and Management Sciences, Corporate, Featured
Top innovator bags another top award
Unisa’s Prof Marcia Mkansi was awarded joint second place in the European Conference on Research Methodology for Business and Management Studies with her Research Methods Index.
2020-07-14 00:00:00.0 | Category:
College of Economic and Management Sciences, Corporate, Featured
It’s an SABR board shuffle
Unisa’s Prof Adewale Aregbeshola is now acting editor of the Southern African Business Review following the retirement of Prof Nico Martins.
2020-07-14 00:00:00.0 | Category:
College of Economic and Management Sciences, Corporate, Featured
Every office needs a superhero
When the lockdown started, students in Unisa’s Department of Finance, Risk Management and Banking did not know who to turn to for assistance with numerous queries - until they found Annah Sibanyoni.
2020-07-10 00:00:00.0 | Category:
Lead, Dept Finance, Risk Management and Banking, College of Economic and Management Sciences, Corporate, Featured
Mega crowdfunding could help poor countries in Covid-19 fight
Unisa’s Prof Dan Makina, from the School of Economic and Financial Sciences, says that WHO could issue bonds to which the general public, private companies, organisations and governments could subscribe to finance a vaccination programme.
2020-06-10 00:00:00.0 | Category:
Lead, Dept Business management, College of Economic and Management Sciences, Corporate, Featured
Highly cited ODL scholar has influence on many fronts
Prof Paul Prinsloo joins the prestigious Unisa Million Rand Club with an eye-wateringly large grant from a consortium of European foundations to research the question: How is secondary-level schooling being refigured through digital technology in different regions of the world and in what ways are these changes reproducing, exacerbating or alleviating in/equality?
2020-06-10 00:00:00.0 | Category:
Lead, Dept Economics, College of Economic and Management Sciences, Corporate, Featured
CEMS economists compile weekly Covid-19 report
Although they are not medical doctors or epidemiologists, the members of Unisa's Macroeconomic Policy Analysis Research Flagship Programme felt that they could make a contribution to fighting this pandemic by processing the cases reported on a daily basis.
2020-05-08 00:00:00.0 | Category:
College of Economic and Management Sciences, Corporate, Featured
Undaunted by lockdown and homelessness, he targets a bright tomorrow
Shaping futures in the service of humanity through accessible open distance learning is what Unisa is all about, and Sakhile Nsibande is determined to change the fortunes of his family with a qualification from the institution.
2020-04-21 00:00:00.0 | Category:
College of Economic and Management Sciences, Corporate, Featured
A Pan-Africanist passionate about uniting researchers across the continent
Prof Raphael Tabani Mpofu, Unisa's Deputy Executive Dean of the College of Economic and Management Sciences, joins the exclusive 2019 Half Million Rand Club for funding he received from the AU for various projects aligned to Agenda 2063.
2020-04-19 00:00:00.0 | Category:
Lead, Featured, Dept of Operations Management, College of Economic and Management Sciences, Corporate
Prolific innovator sets out to clear roadblocks for online retail in SA
"Research and innovation are two sides of the same coin," says Prof Marcia Mkansi, one of Unisa's two "most prolific" innovators of the past five years.