Nicola Kleyn to pass the Gibs baton
Kleyn, dean of the University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science, has seen plenty of changes in executive education and graduate programmes like MBAs since joining the fledgling school at launch in 2000
Prof Nicola Kleyn calls it “just-in-time learning” — the growing demand for managers and executives to learn specific skills for immediate application rather than a broad range for long-term personal development.
Kleyn, dean of the University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science (Gibs), has seen plenty of changes in executive education and graduate programmes like MBAs since joining the fledgling school at launch in 2000. In the past few years, she’s been directly involved in responding to market demand, first as academic head, then deputy dean, then full dean from March 2015 when she succeeded Prof Nick Binedell...
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