2019 CBE Annual Report

14 student Accomplishments 2 4 1 5 3 the technopreneurship Centre student team has secured the overall Best innovation Award at the #living4irhack – hackathon of the national department of Communications and digital technologies (dCdt). the aim of the project is to provide a platform for innovators to showcase 4ir solutions that benefit the masses. Enactus uJ CBE came first in the harmony Business solutions for Community development Enactus Award. Enactus uJ is a CBE student organisation promoting entrepreneurship by turning what they have been taught into practice through community service learning. it is a student-led organisation with membership open to all uJ students. the Enactus uJ school entrepreneurship project called ivalue Entrepreneurship involves four schools in diepsloot and over the past six years had focused on grade 10 learners from child-headed families without income. James Chang (1) (pgdip financial management) in the school of accounting is a top 10 finalist in the CimA Emerging leaders Competition. gradstar recognises the top 100 sA students on leadership qualities and workplace readiness. all varsity careers centres from across the country are contacted to market the gradstar programme to their students, ensuring representation from across the country and from all disciplines. Chanté van tonder (2( (department of Business management) is the awardee of a nuffiC doctoral scholarship. she will be supervised by Prof Cecile nieuwenhuizen (dhEt- nrf sArChi Chair in Entrepreneurship Education), prof Bart Bossink (professor of science, Business and innovation; vrije universiteit Amsterdam) and dr Chris schachtebeck (department of Business management). Judith kipa (3) (school of Accounting, department of accountancy) was announced as the no 1 candidate in the sAit tax professional itC Assessment 2019. natalia Kopylova (4), a Phd candidate supervised by Prof talita greyling in the school of Economics, received an Educational travel grant from the international society for Quality-of-life studies. Zanele phakathi (5) was selected as a miss sA 2019 finalist. saiCa 2019 results reconfirm uJ as the leader in transforming the Accounting profession with 241 students having passed the exam. student team ‘visionaries’ from the department of finance and investment management and the department of Commercial Accounting secured the challenging Cfo Case study Competition 2019. this is an annual, open-entry, and global, multi-stage business strategy and leadership-focused case study competition, organised by the CharterQuest institute south Africa. the student team from the department of finance and investment management are among the top 4 sa university teams competing in the final of the 2019 local university Research Challenge at the JsE on 9 october 2019. CBE students, too, have again made their mark both locally and nationally. Print Media Digital Media Event Elements Stationery Contacts Design Elements Print M dia Digit l Media Event Elements Stationery

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