Milpark Business School 2021 Prospectus TOMORROW IS BEAUTIFUL Developing Ethical Leaders for the Common Good
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Milpark Business School 2021 Prospectus TOMORROW IS BEAUTIFUL Developing ethical leaders for the common good. Contents. 1. Message from the Dean 2 VIEW 9. International Study Tours to Emerging Markets 26 VIEW 2. About Milpark Business School 3 VIEW 10. Applications, Admissions & Registrations 29 VIEW 3. Why Choose Milpark Business School 5 VIEW 4. Milpark Business School Executive Faculty 6 VIEW 5. Accreditations, Affiliations & Partnerships 8 VIEW “What counts in life is not the 6. The United Nations: Seventeen Sustainable mere fact that we have lived. Development Goals by 2030 10 VIEW It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance 7. Programmes 13 VIEW of the life we lead.” - Nelson Mandela Nobel Peace Prize Winner 1993 8. Executive Education 20 VIEW Message from About Milpark 1the Dean. Business School. 2 Tomorrow is beautiful. The old truths suggest that to lead, leaders must have foresight. They must lead by example; they must motivate and inspire on a moral basis, through aspiration as well as recognition and reward. It is precisely this calm, considered, and ethical leadership, required to lead and inspire large numbers of people that seems in short supply today. This has been made even more challenging considering the Covid-19 pandemic. Cognisant of the drivers of change, the megatrends, and the global pandemic impacting on society, we are aware of the responsibility and trust that we as a business school of the next generation of leaders bear. Hence, ethical and sustainable business practices is at the heart of our teaching and research philosophy. To this end, we have embraced the notion of “phronesis”: practical wisdom, based on an intellectual virtue that implies ethics. Phronesis involves deliberation based on values, concerned with practical judgement and informed by reflection. It is pragmatic, variable, context-dependent, and oriented toward action while driven by the pursuit of the #commongood. In demonstrably making Milpark Business School’s philosophy manifest, the Sustainable Development Goals will serve to inform the way we think, reason and act in relation to teaching, research, and engagement with industry as a business school. We, our students and alumni will endeavour to be generators Milpark Business School delivers an contact and online distance learning. With of sustainable value for business and society at large and to work for an education that empowers and equips this accreditation Milpark’s MBA has joined inclusive and sustainable economy – for our country, our continent, and the current and future leaders to pursue the top 2% of global businests schools world at large. Tomorrow is beautiful. Milpark Business School develops ethical ethical and sustainable business practices in over 70 countries. Our highly qualified leaders for the #commongood. informed by theSustainable Development academic staff have extensive industry Goals, in an evolving local, continental, experience, which ensures a learning and global milieu. environment that promotes growth- producing experiences for students. Our DR COBUS OOSTHUIZEN We offer flexible study options and let course content is relevant, contemporary you choose between contact or distance and updated regularly. Dean of Milpark Business School learning online and all our qualifications BCom, MBA, PhD are registered and accredited with the Milpark Business School also boasts relevant authorities. excellent utilisation of technology, enabling easy online registration, administrative Our flagship qualification, the Masters of processes (results, documentation, etc.), Business Administration, received AMBA academic support (including study plans, End poverty in all its forms, everywhere. accreditation in 2018, and is the only extra articles, exam guidelines and self- AMBA accredited MBA in Africa for both assessment question) and tutor support. 2 3 Why choose Milpark Business School. 3 Accessible Supportive Flexible Lifelong Learning MBS offers both contact and Faculty and industry experts offer Modules are designed to fit your In the quest to offer continuous online learning, which allows reassuring support in a student- lifestyle. Four block cycles are professional development, MBS for contemporary, boundaryless centric environment. The online offered per annum, with a per- offers Executive Education and a learning to occur anytime, learning model encourages high module payment structure. wide range of short courses. anywhere. engagement. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture. 4 5 Milpark Business School DR JANE USHER Leadership, a B.Ed Honours in Education, Executive Faculty. Training, and Development, a Diploma in 4 Remedial Education, and a Higher Diploma Head of in Education. Dr Cobus Oosthuizen is the Dean Department: of Milpark Business School. Cobus’ Postgraduate Her areas of specialisation are leadership areas of specialisation are Leadership, Studies (personal, interpersonal and professional) Entrepreneurship, and Strategy, with with a particular interest in women in keen interests extending into the areas B.Ed Honours, leadership, gender equality and community of technology, innovation, complexity, M.Phil, D.Phil engagement. Jane has presented papers at philosophy, artificial intelligence, futures academic conferences. studies, ethics, sustainability, and the Fourth Industrial Revolution. She is an external reviewer and moderator for a variety of business schools as well as His current research focus is the Fourth Dr Jane Usher is the Head of Department for academic journals. She is a fellow of the Industrial Revolution and its influence on of Postgraduate Studies at Milpark Business Higher Education Academy; a member of the strategy, leadership, management practice School. Jane has a D.Phil in Leadership Southern African Institute of Management and the world of work. He believes that we Performance and Change, an M.Phil in Scientists; and a member of the Worldwide are not captives to a pre-determined set Personal, Interpersonal, and Professional Association of Female Professionals. of choices, but that the future offers many possible outcomes. As a collective, we should aim at creating pathways that enable the enactment of individual and social events to shape a preferred future in which DR PETER AYUK in building sustained management and all stakeholders will benefit. Cobus regularly leadership capabilities through continuous contributes to the popular press, has professional development initiatives. presented papers at academic conferences, published refereed journal articles, Head of Dr Ayuk holds a PhD (Higher Education contributed book chapters, and acts as a Department: Management) and M.Com (Business reviewer for numerous academic journals. Executive Management) both from the University of Education Johannesburg. He is a member of the South He also supervises masters and doctoral African Institute for Management Scientists students. He serves as an external examiner M.Com, PhD (SAIMS). Mindful that effective practice for masters and doctoral dissertations, and is grounded on sound research, Dr Ayuk DR COBUS OOSTHUIZEN PhD proposal defence panel-member for maintains an active research profile. Dean of Milpark Business School various South African universities. Cobus is a board member of the International BCom, MBA, PhD His primary focus is in Organisational Business Conference, member of the Dr Ayuk is currently Head of Department: Behaviour and Institutional Effectiveness Southern Africa Institute for Management Executive Education. The Executive in Higher Education. His work has been Scientists and the Institute of Directors, Education Unit is responsible for the published regularly in scientific journals, Southern Africa. identification, design and delivery of short conference proceedings and book chapters. learning interventions that complement In contribution to the national effort, Peter the management and leadership education serves on the Accreditation Committee of the mission of Milpark Business School. The Council on Higher Education (CHE) as well as Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. focus is, therefore on working with industry, the Education Committee of the Engineering the public sector and the general public Council of South Africa (ECSA). 6 7 5 Accreditations. Associations. Milpark Education (Pty) Ltd is registered as a Private Higher Education Institution Milpark Business School is also a member of the with the Department of Higher Education and Training under the Higher Education Business Graduates Association (BGA), an international Act, 1997. Our registration number is 2007/HE07/003. Milpark Education is thus a membership and quality assurance body of world- conferring institution and is permitted to confer on its graduates the certificates, leading and high-potential business schools who share diplomas and degrees for which it is accredited by the Higher Education Quality a commitment for responsible management practices Committee (HEQC) of the Council on Higher Education (CHE). and lifelong learning. MBS is also a member of the South African Business School’s Association (SABSA), International accreditation of business schools has become the highest standard and the African Association of Business Schools (AABS). of achievement in postgraduate business education. This recognition is earned only after meeting set criteria and undergoing stringent assessment processes. MBS’s international