UCT Launches CSI Postgrad Qualification

The University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business (GSB) is launching South Africa’s first specialised postgraduate programme in corporate social investment (CSI) from June 2009.

The Postgraduate Diploma in Management Practice in CSI (PGDIP CSI) is a landmark offering that will provide a comprehensive CSI curriculum and give South Africans the framework to align CSI with core business strategy to make it sustainable and successful.

Engen CSI manager, Khanyisa Balfour, an alumna of the UCT GSB, points out that a postgraduate programme of this nature is long overdue, given the massive potential of CSI to contribute to development and poverty alleviation in South Africa.

“The CSI industry has the potential to change South Africa, but it has not yet been professionalised, standards are in some areas mediocre, and companies don’t always see its strategic value,” explains Balfour.

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