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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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Conquering gender-based violence requires diverse and multiple interventions
Seeing that voices are being amplified on the urgency of eradicating gender-based violence in South Africa, the Entrepreneurship Development in Higher Education (EDHE) Programme ...
Participants in a British Council’s research commercialisation programme share their experiences
Professor Azwihangwisi Mavhandu-Mudzusi of the University of South Africa (Unisa) has wasted no time in putting into practice what she learnt from the British Council‘s ...
The EDHE Studentpreneurs Indaba 2023 explored insects as a sustainable food source
Dr Bianca Mkhize-Simelane (below) used to eat the mopane worms her grandmother cooked because she thought they were fun. But when she started earning ...
Entrepreneurship Lekgotla 2023 kicks off with high-level partners setting the agenda
The 7th Entrepreneurship Lekgotla kicked off yesterday with critical positioning statements from the most pertinent entities in Entrepreneurship Development in Higher Education (EDHE). Talking ...
Buti Manamela commends the EDHE programme’s social innovation focus in 2023
On Monday, 04 September 2023, the Deputy Minister in the Department of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, Mr Buti Manamela, applauded the Entrepreneurship Development ...
Promoting Social Innovation for Societal Impact for Studentpreneurs in Higher Education this September
The EDHE Lekgotla & Studentpreneurs Indaba 2023 Sept 4 - 8, 2023 Discover the future of entrepreneurship in higher education at the electrifying ...
Advocating Social Innovation for Societal Impact in Higher Education this September
The Entrepreneurship Development in Higher Education (EDHE) is pleased to announce the upcoming EDHE Lekgotla 2023 and Studentpreneurs Indaba, scheduled to take place from ...
Exposure to Switzerland’s innovation and entrepreneurship landscape boosts confidence in a young South African
The founder of one South African student start-up that won a trip to a 10-day residency programme at the University of Basel in Switzerland, ...
Universities SA’s World of Work Strategy Group commits to an ambitious multi-year programme of action
Significant stakeholder engagements in the first half of 2023 sparked numerous project considerations in Universities South Africa’s World of Work Strategy Group (WSG) if ...
EDHE Entrepreneurship Learning and Teaching Excellence Awards: perspectives from inaugural winners
Since its inception in 2016, the Entrepreneurship Development in Higher Education (EDHE) Programme, an initiative of the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) ...
A quadruple helix model might be more relevant for innovation at South Africa’s universities
Universities register only 6% of patents in South Africa. Less than 2% are by state-owned research organisations. And less than 10% of South African ...
University leaders speak out on developing entrepreneurial thinking among undergraduates
If universities want to promote innovation at undergraduate level, they too need to be innovative and break away from traditional approaches of teaching and ...
Strategies for institutionalising entrepreneurship; building an entrepreneurial university
Sound policies, adequate resources and identifying champions became recurring themes as past recipients of the annual Rising Star Deputy Vice-Chancellor (DVC) and DVC of ...
At its core, social entrepreneurship is about driving positive social change
Cognisant that businesses of any kind ought to generate profit, Dr Paul Igwe, Senior Lecturer in Strategy and Enterprise and Programme Leader in the ...
A UCT research programme co-creates knowledge with adjacent communities
The relationship between the university and community engagement takes on a new nuance with the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Knowledge Co-op. Inspired by ...
Should we be speaking of Entrepreneurial or Smart Universities – Professor Calie Pistorius of SU asks
What is an entrepreneurial university and how does it fit with your organisation? This is just one of a series of questions posed by ...
Inculcating entrepreneurial thinking in students is central to universities’ functions
The University serves a public good purpose where it contributes to society, builds experts and professionals, and – most especially – focuses on students. ...
Universities’ executive leadership ponders ways to increase societal impact through entrepreneurship
The underlying purpose of universities, since their inception, has been to effect change and positive transformation within the communities they serve, and to have an ...
What university leadership needs to do to encourage entrepreneurial eco-systems — a student’s perspective
A top-down approach is critical for the creation of an ecosystem sympathetic to the development of entrepreneurship. This, and a host of complimentary initiatives needed ...