Standard Bank Empowers Youth Entrepreneurs with Continued Support for the EDHE Programme
Standard Bank has taken a pioneering step to address the daunting challenges facing young job seekers through its continued investment in the Entrepreneurship Development in Higher Education (EDHE) Economic Activation Office (EAO) programme. Established ...
Successful training of creatives mostly includes creating informal moments for networking
The one clear outcome from an EDHE Lekgotla 2023 think tank on How do we support artists to sustain and grow their businesses in the creative industry? is that there is no one specific ...
Mentors need to be appropriately skilled and committed even if they offer a free service, says Professor Peter Baur at UJ
Peter Baur, Associate Professor at the University of Johannesburg’s (UJs’) School of Economics, used his observation of the husky dogs he fosters to illustrate the value of the mentoring process the university’s College of ...
The sustainability of social entrepreneurship lies in instilling problem-solving, addressing funding and conducting more research
Several motivations drive people to become social entrepreneurs, but at its core is usually a desire to effect change. These sentiments were shared by three panellists at last week’s Entrepreneurship Lekgotla 2023, that concluded ...
Complexities in commercialising Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences research; narration or figures?
One of the University of the Western Cape’s (UWC’s) biggest success stories of commercialisation combining natural science with social sciences is a workbook for grade seven and eight learners. The workbook is about TB, ...
EDHE Entrepreneurship Intervarsity: Reflections of past winners
The Entrepreneurship Development in Higher Education (EDHE) programme is on a mission to cultivate entrepreneurial students, entrepreneurial faculty and entrepreneurial universities. In line with that mandate, programme leaders invited four previous winners of the ...