Partnerships
Capitec Bank
Kick-start your success with credit from Capitec Bank. Apply now in a few easy steps for up to the advertised fees of the programme you wish to invest in at a discounted interest rate over 84 months and get your offer within minutes. Once your credit is approved, Capitec will pay it directly to Stellenbosch Business School Executive Development (SBS-ED) on your behalf. Capitec Bank is an authorised financial services (FSP 46669) and registered credit (NCRCP13) provider.
Global Natives
Global Natives Ltd was established in 2007 as a training solutions provider in the Mauritian market. SBS-ED and Global Natives have entered into a fully collaborative partnership to deliver comprehensive executive education programmes in Mauritius.
LinkedIn Learning
SBS-ED is proud to have partnered with LinkedIn Learning, thereby granting our participants access to a select portfolio of superior quality online learning resources available via their platform. By this partnership with LinkedIn Learning, SBS-ED is able to augment our content, optimise the relevancy of our subject matter and diversify the value for our clients.
Management Training Bureau (MTB)
SBS-ED have been working with the Management Training Bureau in Zimbabwe and have signed an MoU with the Ministry of Higher Education to deliver programmes to both the Public sector as well as the private sector.
SEED Educational Trust
SBS-ED is the academic partner of SEED Educational Trust, a non-profit organisation that specialises in developing skills, confidence in leaders so that they can lead effectively in the social sector. The course material and process-based approach to training applied by SEED Trust has achieved significant results in leadership development programmes with school principals and deputies, and district officials. Programme participants receive a certificate of competence from the University of Stellenbosch upon successfully completing SEED Trust’s School Leadership Programme offered in partnership with SBS-ED.
The Empowerment Academy
The Empowerment Academy specialises in offering unique and tailor-made Skills Development solutions to its clients. These turn-key solutions ultimately target the optimisation of these clients’ score for Skills Development on the Transformation Scorecard as specified in the B-BBEE Codes of Good Practice. In the spirit of true transformation, versus mere compliance to the Codes, the Empowerment Academy embraces BEE as a sustainable strategy that creates intrinsic value for its clients and is beneficial for all parties involved.
The Ethics Institute
The Ethics Institute (TEI) is a non-profit, public benefit organisation. Their vision of building an ethically responsible society is achieved by forming partnerships with the public and private sectors, and the professions. They serve as a resource through thought leadership, research, training, advisory, assessment and certification activities. SBS-ED is a member and training partner of TEI.
University of the Free State (UFS)
University of the Free State (UFS) recognise completion of two of SBS-ED’s short courses (the open enrolment MDP and open enrolment SMDP) as academic credits towards a degree (Bachelor of Management Leadership). The BML programme was developed in collaboration with the School for New Learning at De Paul University in Chicago.
University of Lincoln International Business School
SBS-ED participants who complete the Senior Management Development Programme (SMDP) have the opportunity to complete a BA(Hons) in Business Management at the University of Lincoln International Business School in the United Kingdom via distance learning and work-based projects.
USB-ED Botswana
SBS-ED Botswana was established in 2018 with our partners EOH Consulting Botswana to further establish our footprint in Botswana and to facilitate a stronger relationship with the BQA and HRDC to support our Botswana clients.
Vlerick Leuven Gent
SBS-ED, as part of the USB, has reached an agreement with Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School in Belgium to collaborate more closely with each other in the areas of research, transfer of knowledge, and management programmes. The partnership extends to a mutual management presence, whereby Vlerick sits on the USB Advisory Board and USB is represented on the Vlerick International Advisory Board.