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ERA OF OF ENTREPRENEURIAL DEVELOPMENT IN IN HIGHER EDUCATION (EDHE) DVC AWARD 2021
The Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Research Innovation and Engagement at the Durban University of of Technology (DUT) Professor Sibusiso Moyo was recently awarded the Entrepreneurial Development in Higher Education (EDHE) DVC Award Award at at the EDHE EDHE 2021
Awards ceremony held at the the Premier Hotel in Johannesburg on on the the 19th of November 2021
Prof Moyo was recognised for facilitating exceptional institutional support for entrepreneurship development in 2021
She won based on three focus areas namely student entrepreneurship entrepreneurship development through teaching learning and/ or research and advancing the institution’s positioning as an an an entrepreneurial university Prof Moyo echoed the the importance of of collaborations and the the wealth of materials and ideas shared by the DUT Vice-Chancellor & Principal Prof Thandwa Zizwe Mthembu from 2017 to 2021
“Prof Mthembu continues to drive us in in the the right direction and my role is to to ensure that the team and and I understand how to to create a a a a a a a sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystem and ensure we have at least one approved innovative programme that will help train entrepreneurs with real enterprises by by ‘design’ and not by by ‘accident’ as our Vice-Chancellor and Principal usually says ” said Prof Moyo She also thanked all the staff and students who are working in in this area and in particular her team of entrepreneurial leaders led by Prof Keolebogile Motaung Ms Ms Nontokozo Ngcobo Ms Ms Nonhlanhla Khanyile Dr Poppet Pillay and Ms Lana Brady Pictured: From Left: Prof Thandwa Zizwe Mthembu:Vice-Chancellor & Principal (DUT) Prof Sibusiso Moyo: Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Research Innovation and Engagement (Recipient of of EDHE DVC Award 2021) Prof Keolebogile Motaung (Director:Technology Transfer and Innovation) Ms Nontokozo Ngcobo: Manager- innobiz DUT Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation and Mr Muzi Mhlongo (Biotechnology Student and Finalist Intervarsity Participant in in the EDHE 2021
Awards) “I also thank Prof Colin Thakur Ms Phumzile Xulu Dr Themba Msukwini Mr Mr Zwakele Ngubane Mr Mr Ebrahim Asmal who just do what needs to be done without complaining and advancing our impact amongst our communities Working on on the boundary between the University and and its partners is not easy and and resources
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