Region: South Africa

Institution: Milpark Business School.

Mission: To provide the highest standard of education in a private environment as well as distance learning, the Milpark Business School has implemented the best practices in education, service excellence and dynamic partnerships to ensure that its solutions will meet national and transnational requirements.

Contact: enquiries@milpark.ac.za (Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town campuses)
Website: http://www.milpark.co.za/

Summary: The Milpark Business School aims to provide the highest quality private education in the business and banking sectors by providing students with distance and contact learning, full-time and part-time classes, as well as workshops in the three main city centres of South Africa. The qualifications are of the highest standard and meet both national and international requirements, which give students a solid platform to build their careers on.

About Milpark Business School

The Milpark Business School has private education campuses in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town, where core values such as conforming to the highest standards in education, honesty, transparency and integrity, and using innovative teaching methods to empower its students are key components in its day-to-day running. Short courses on offer include Specialist Banking and Insurance, Bookkeeping/Accounting, Administration, Project Management and Management Development, while other qualifications on offer include Master in Business Administration, Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration, Post Graduate Diploma in Financial Planning, Bachelor of Business Administration and National Certificate in Banking Services Advice to name but a few.

Vision

The Milpark Business School strives to be the preferred private provider to South Africa and international institutions of business people who have studied in the fields of management, leadership, banking and insurance through its high standard of education and by conforming to internationally accredited study programmes.

Who should apply

Students who want to further their education in the banking and financial sectors. Milpark Business School’s facilities and campuses are of the highest standard and provide access for disabled students and those with chronic illnesses and other impairments, as well as foreign students through its distance learning programmes.

Q & A

Who is Milpark Business School?

Milpark is a registered Private Higher Education Institution (PHEI), specialising in education in management and leadership, financial planning and insurance, and banking.

Where are your campuses?

Milpark Business School has two teaching campuses in Melville, Johannesburg and Claremont, Cape Town, and a support office in Durban. The Melville campus offers Higher Education (HE) programmes (NQF level 5 – 8 ) and Further Education and Training (FET) programmes (NQF level 4). Claremont offers Higher Education (HE) programmes (NQF levels 5 – 6) and Further Education and Training (FET) programmes (NQF level 4). The Durban support office offers administrative support to students. Part -time short programmes will be offered from the Durban campus from 2012.

Are you a registered provider?

Milpark Business School (Pty) Ltd is registered with the Department of Higher Education and Training (DoHET) under the registration number 2007/HE07/003. The business school is also provisionally registered until 31 December 2015 as a Private Further Education and Training College under the registration number 2009/FE07/058. All (HE) programmes are accredited by the Higher Education Quality Committee (HEQC), a permanent sub-committee of the Council on Higher Education (CHE). Milpark is also provisionally accredited by Umalusi, the Council for Quality Assurance in General and Further Education and Training (accreditation number: FET00665PA).

Who are the programmes aimed at?

Programmes are aimed at two broad groups of students: those who are already employed and want to improve their skills or enhance their careers by obtaining qualifications, and those who are school leavers and want to obtain a qualification that will start their career.

What type of qualifications do you offer?

Quality qualifications in Higher Education (HE) and Further Education and Training (FET) are provided as well as career-focused short programmes.

What delivery options are available?

Milpark qualifications are offered via contact learning (CL) and distance learning (DL).

The table below indicates at which campuses the various programmes are offered, and whether a programme is offered through distance or contact learning:

Is Milpark involved in learnerships?

Milpark is proud to have been the provider selected for the Letsema Learnership Programme since 2007. This BANKSETA initiative is aimed at the banking industry and beneficiaries are selected from previously disadvantaged communities. Milpark currently delivers the National Certificate in Banking Services Advice (NQF level 5) to these learners.

Milpark also delivers the management qualification for the BANKSETA’s Kuyasa learnership.

Several smaller learnerships registered with the Department of Labour are also delivered by Milpark. These are are tailor-made to the particular industry that is served.

Milpark Programmes – Higher Education Programmes

Milpark Programmes – Further Education and Training Programme

• Certificate in Financial Products (NQF level 4)

Milpark Programmes – Short programmes

Milpark is able to offer either standardised or customised short learning programmes addressing banking, insurance, financial planning, management and leadership across a number of sectors. Typically, short programmes are delivered over three to five days or three months on a part-time basis.

Short programmes offering for 2012:

• Fundamentals of Project Management

• Applied Project Management

• Project Management Software

• Business Management

• Business Accounting

• Corporate Governance and Risk Management

• New Manager Development

• IT- Basic  MS Office

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Milpark Business School

Milpark Business School is an independent, private, registered provider of Higher Education (HE) and Further Education and Training (FET) qualifications. The qualifications offered focus on the niche areas of management and leadership, banking and financial planning, and insurance. Milpark has two campuses in Johannesburg and Cape Town and an office in Durban. Milpark Business School is rated as a Level 4 contributor with 20% black shareholding. Milpark Business School (Pty) Ltd Reg. No. 2004/026244/07. Registered with the Department of Higher Education and Training (DoHET) as an HE Institution (No 2007/HE07/003). Provisional registration with the DoHET as an FET provider (No 2009/FE07/058) valid until 31 December 2015, under the Further Education and Training Act. Visit www.milpark.ac.za for information about Milpark Business School, its courses and qualifications.

Issued by Tina Collins on behalf of Milpark Business School
Tina Collins
Communications Consultant