College of Business and Economics | Annual Report 2022 37 Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland, CBE Graduation POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS GRADUATION 2022 In 2022, the College conferred a total of 1 397 postgraduate qualifications. In total, 357 were postgraduate diplomas, 817 honours qualifications, 180 master’s degrees, and 43 doctorates. All in all, there was a drop in the different qualifications conferred in 2022 compared to 2021. DOCTORAL CANDIDATES FORUM The College hosts doctoral candidates’ forums and think tank networking events to support and connect with the students. (Image next page: middle). CBE HONOURS RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT The College annually hosts an Honours research workshop and Poster Presentations event for the top three posters per department. (Image next page: bottom). INTERNATIONALISATION The University of Johannesburg, Division of Internationalisation, initiated the Africa by Bus Project with the aim of developing and upskilling UJ students to understand, communicate and interact with the Africa continent’s diverse economies and cultures. (Image next page: top). As part of the University’s Pan-African agenda and continental collaboration initiatives, the College of Business and Economics (CBE) participated in the Africa by Bus project. A delegation of four staff members and 36 students travelled to Windhoek, Namibia in September 2022. The tour to Namibia was inspired by “accelerating intra-African trade and boosting Africa’s trading position in the global market by strengthening Africa’s common voice and policy space in global trade negotiations”. The aim of the tour was to firstly, expose CBE students to foreign markets, international businesses, and different African cultures and secondly, to align our students’ knowledge with the Free African Trade policy. THE WAY AHEAD The College will build on efforts to improve the research culture, focusing on quality and quantity. The newly created Centre for Applied Data Science has established a learning analytics competence area, which will be leveraged to understand and better shape postgraduate monitoring to improve the throughput.
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