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Article: South African business schools fail test: thousands of business students in South Africa have been rocked by the announcement from the country's education authorities that their MBA certificates may not be worth the paper they are printed on. now, Tom Nevin reports, shrapnel from this decision has been flying in all directions.(Business Education)(South African Council on Higher Education)
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- African Business
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- July 1, 2004
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At the stroke of a pen, the South African Council on Higher Education (CHE) has negated expensive MBA qualifications earned, or in the process of being learned, at business schools South Africa-wide. It ruled late in May that teaching at 50% of technikons and 75% of private institutions was substandard and they may no longer offer MBA courses.
The long and short of a tertiary education bombshell that has rocked the hallowed halls of business academia education and brought normally well-behaved business students out onto the streets, is that the qualifications of thousands of South African MBA holders might not be worth the certificates they're printed on.
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