Most ambitious working professionals in business have either contemplated or completed an MBA. While an MBA is demanding and challenging, its unfortunate nickname as the “Divorce Course” does not need to be the case for everyone.
It is December. You have just wrapped up a hectic work year and rewarded yourself with a weekend holiday in Cape Town.
Francois de Flamingh is not the kind of person who does things by halves. A BSc and a Master's in Chemical Engineering, PGDipBA behind him, and now, finally, an MBA (NQF 9) from Milpark Business School.
Most people approaching postgraduate study for the first time assume it is a harder version of what they have already done: more content with more reading and more pressure.
The credit industry doesn't look like it did five years ago. For working professionals in banking and financial services, that pace of change raises a very reasonable question: is my skill set keeping up?
If you think turning 40 means you’re ‘over the hill’ – too old for new challenges or further study – Bennie Hancke proves otherwise. At 40, he found Milpark’s online PGDA/CTA and became a Chartered Accountant.
Deidre Jooste's story does not begin in a lecture hall or a boardroom. It begins in a community marked by financial hardship and violence, and with a question that refused to go away: is there another way?
There are two ways to build a career in financial planning in South Africa. You can let the years do the work. Or you can go and get the credentials that make the years move faster. Milandré Roberts chose the second option.
There's a version of financial services that gets written about a lot — the high-stakes world of wealth management, investment portfolios, and complex financial instruments.
