SPOTLIGHT ON SCHOOLS Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST) is at the forefront of higher education in the Southern African country and the Harold Pupkewitz Graduate School of Business (HP-GSB) stands ready to develop its future leaders. Tim Banerjee Dhoul introduces a new addition to BGA’s global network
HISTORY Namibia University of Science and Technology has its roots in the foundation of the Academy for Tertiary Education in 1980, the country’s first institution of higher education. In the years following independence in 1990, two of the Academy’s constituent parts merged to become the Polytechnic of Namibia. It then acquired university status and took on its current mantle in 2015. HP-GSB was established in 2010 and operates under the Faculty of Commerce, Human Sciences and Education, one of NUST’s four faculties. COURSES HP-GSB delivers three academic programmes: an MBA, a master’s degree in leadership and change management and a postgraduate diploma in management, all of which are offered on a part-time basis. In addition, the school offers a wide range of short courses and executive education options aimed at upskilling individuals and executives. These include a certificate in supervisory skills development aimed at new managers and a certificate in management development for those with a greater level of experience.
LOCATION The Harold Pupkewitz Graduate School of Business is based at one of NUST’s two campuses in Windhoek, the capital and largest city of Namibia. Home to around 500,000 people and almost every national enterprise, Windhoek is the economic, social and cultural heart of the country. Namibia itself, meanwhile, regularly appears in lists of the most politically stable countries in Africa and has become a hotspot for oil exploration in recent years after several discoveries were made along its coast. Hosting parts of both the Namib and Kalahari deserts, Namibia is also thought to be the driest country in sub-Saharan Africa and has the second-lowest population density of any sovereign country, after Mongolia.
32 Business Impact • ISSUE 4 • 2024
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