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As many students are unable to attend full time between education and the demands of the modern
campus programmes, RBS offers flexible delivery workplace.
options. The supported distance-learning mode of The academic makerspaces or iLeadLAB’s combines
delivery, carefully designed curricula as well as formal discipline-centric education in Science, Tech-
affordable fee structures make RBS programmes a nology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)
preferred choice for persons in full-time employment immersion, with work-integrated learning, and inter-
in particular. nship programmes. Through this unit, graduates
acquire experiential learning of flexible in-demand
Accredited Study Choices
skills, as well as acquire future-fit skills and experience,
RBS offers an array of study choices, ranging from which reduces the education-job mismatch and
short courses and higher certificate programmes increases employability. Graduates must be prepared
to MBAs, postgraduate qualifications, degrees and to excel at jobs that do not yet exist. RBS meets
diplomas. All degrees are locally accredited and this need by combining formal discipline-centric
internationally recognised. RBS recently received a education with experiential learning,
major accolade with accreditation for the doctorate Entrepreneurial Skills Development
degree by the Department of Higher Education.
The REGENT Enterprise Development Hub (REDhub)
RBS’s programmes cover the areas of business admini- leverages the business school’s iLeadLABs. REDhub
stration, commerce, management and leadership, strives to promote impactful entrepreneurial skills
entrepreneurship, local government, educational development by nurturing resilient entrepreneurs, and
management, finance, and human resource. supporting ideas and business concepts, to stimulate
the growth of small, medium and micro enterprises
Bridging the Gap Between Learning and Work
(SMMEs). Entrepreneurs experience the entire process
RBS’s programmes are designed to be responsive from rapid prototyping and development to finding
to the current needs of commerce and industry in funding and bringing products to market.
South and southern Africa, while being sensitive to Alumni
the rapidly changing global business environment.
In addition, graduates must be prepared to excel at The institution’s alumni base of 7000 is rapidly
jobs that do not yet exist. expanding. RBS’s annual student surveys show that
RBS alumni hold executive and leading positions across
One of the institution’s main objectives is to use Africa, the Middle East, Western Europe and Asia.
the potential in information technology to drive Further, the current student population of RBS is very
RBS into a digital future using the institution’s representative of the demographic of communities in
Employability unit (iLeadLAB) to bridge the gap South Africa and countries in the SADC region.

Prof Osman Seedat, Prof Marvin Kambuwa and Prof Dhiru Soni with Margaret Hirsch, executive director of Hirsch’s Group,
who completed her MBA — at the age of 70 — with REGENT Business School.

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