The Graduate Centre for Management (GCM) has welcomed the new year with a bang.
The centre, which was previously located on the ground floor of the Commerce building, has now moved up to the fourth floor of the Engineering Building on the Cape Town Campus.
It is also no doubt that the move comes with bigger and better plans for 2017.
The GCM opened its doors to over 1 300 students in 2016, with 975 of those registered for the short courses, corporate programmes, as well as special projects.
The remaining 354 students registered for the formal qualifications in BTech and MTech in Business Administration and Information Systems.
The centre has also been very successful during the last six months in rapidly expanding its short course and special projects (innovation) activities and is pursuing many others that hold great potential advantage for CPUT.
Established in the year 2 000, the GCM Training Centre provides opportunities for skills enhancement towards life-long learning and the creation of a transformative environment in which accessibility, equity and the redress of past inequalities can be addressed.
Its objective is to provide affordable, quality education based on the platform of academic and vocational learning, with special emphasis on executive management and related training that will encourage portability through national and international co-operative relationships.
This year holds great promise of expansion into an even bigger unit and competitor in the training sector with the highest bodies of the university discussing its transition into a business school in the future.
The centre is developing a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration, Masters’ degrees in Business Management, Supply Chain Management as well as Business Information Systems, a Postgraduate Diploma in Supply Chain Management, and associated business informatics doctoral degrees.
