To add value to the quality of its academic programmes, the Faculty of Business and Management Sciences has this year sent 10 deserving students to European universities as part of its International Exchange Programme.

The students recently joined the faculty’s partner universities in France, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands where they will attend class for the next three months.

The students are in the departments of Office Management and Technology, Marketing, Retail Business Management, and Entrepreneurship.

The Office Management and Technology students departed in April while the other departments left this month.

The student are selected by their respective departments, and once accepted into the programme they receive sponsorship from the faculty for travel, accommodation and subsistence expenses.

The faculty’s Associate Dean, Ivan van der Heever, met with the students before their departure to wish them well on their journey.

Van der Heever encouraged the students to commit to their studies and to enjoy their new surroundings and make the most of the opportunity.

The faculty’s programme has been running for over ten years and receives 30 students every semester from 15 partner universities in Europe. As part of the exchange, the faculty has the opportunity to send students to the European universities every year.

For more information contact the programme’s Co-ordinator, Nizaam Peck, on 021 460 8392 or visit room E3.33B in the Engineering Building at the Cape Town Campus.

Written by Kwanele Butana
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CPUT students have raised yet another donation to assist with renovations and the redesign of the Red Cross Children’s Hospital.

Hot on the heels of October’s cheque handover to the hospital by a different group of CPUT students, students in the Marketing and Entrepreneurship departments recently handed over a R30 000 cheque to the Red Cross Children’s Hospital.

Last month, Business and Information Administration (BIA) students donated a cheque of R54 300 to the hospital. This took the total donations the hospital received from BIA students in the last ten years to R430 685.

During the recent official cheque handover Marketing lecturer Tania Petersen explained that for years the university hosted annual Market Days to raise funds for worthy causes but these were disrupted by campus unrest.

Petersen added that the students in the audience were members of groups that raised the most funds for the project in their respective departments. She congratulated the students for a challenging job well done.

This was the first time students in the two departments were donating money to the hospital as in previous years they donated to other charity organisations.

The Head of the Marketing Department, Mandy Jones, said Petersen once won a teaching award as a result of her coordination of the fundraising project.

“It’s not only about the money but also about impacting learning on the students as the skills obtained from the project will remain with the students forever,” said Jones.

Dr Lawrence Tengeh, Head of the Entrepreneurship Department, said the university wants to produce entrepreneurs who are responsible. “You are showing us that once you have a lot to give you’ll give back to the community,” said Tengeh.

Pauline Solomons, a Fundraiser at the Children’s Hospital’s Trust, said the hospital’s doors are open to the students for a tour as well as to ask about anything they need to know about the hospital. She encouraged the students to continue giving donations to the hospital.

Written by Kwanele Butana
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