Having spent more than three decades in the higher education sector, Prof Stephen Hosking is tasked with steering CPUT towards the establishment of its Graduate School of Business Management.
Hosking has been appointed as the Head of the Graduate Centre for Management (GCM), after having worked at Rhodes University, University of Cape Town and Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University.
He is consulted widely by government on the economics of water and natural resources.
Hosking says he is learning fast how CPUT works and that his attraction to join the university was an opportunity to make a social contribution.
“My contribution is to take a virtual business school to a real one. (To achieve this) I have to get all stakeholders to agree on the new direction.”
In pursuit of the business school’s aims he has presented to CPUT a proposed model and has won support from the board of the Faculty of Business and Management Sciences for GCM to change its name to the Graduate School of Business Management.
“The business school model I am canvassing support for is one that provides a well-rounded business administration post-graduate education that has a competitive edge in applying a business informatics approach to managing technology applications and supply chain tasks, and that is complemented by short course and innovative business education project activities.”
He says the most important part of his job is adding human capital value to the GCM students.
This will be achieved by challenging students to draw on and apply the different ways of thinking, skills and research methods to which they will be exposed.
